The Sports Report: UCLA ladies’s basketball team stays alive
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Howdy, everyone; my name is Houston Mitchell, proprietor of this publication. Let’s get proper to the information. March Madness The UCLA ladies’ basketball team advanced to the Sweet 16 of the NCAA tournament on Monday with an eighty-eighty dissatisfied victory over Maryland at College Park, Md. The Bruins have been seeded sixth, and Maryland turned into seeded 1/3. UCLA, third in the kingdom in offensive rebounding, grabbed 27 offensive rebounds, compensating for 36% shooting using scoring 27 2nd-hazard factors.
We’re now not a great capturing group. We don’t rely on the 3-factor shot; we do not have shooters like some of the ones Maryland has,” train Cori Close said. “But you already know that if you take place to miss, someone’s got your returned.” Michaela Onyenwere scored a profession-high 30 factors, and Japreece Dean had 22 for UCLA. Lahaina Drummer snagged eight offensive rebounds, and Onyenwere had six. “We have folks that clearly can get the ball off the rim,” Onyenwere said. “It offers our guards self-belief to shoot the ball because they know we will get the rebound and have extra possessions.
UCLA will next face second-seeded Connecticut on Friday in the semifinal round of the Albany Region. “A lot of teams lose to UConn before they even start,” Close stated. “We’ve got loads of self-assurance in what we’ve constructed and earned.” —– UC Irvine guys’ basketball teacher Russell Turner apologized Monday for his moves at some point during Sunday’s loss to Oregon. While shouting commands to his crew from the sideline throughout the sport, he repeatedly referred to Oregon’s Louis King as “Queen” to distract the freshman forward.
Turner became criticized on social media for the remarks, with some accusing him of homophobia and sexism. “I percentage UC Irvine’s belief that inclusivity and diversity are paramount values,” Turner stated in a statement Monday, “and I apologize for not knowing that my movements all through the game counseled otherwise.” Turner changed into seen speaking to King proper after the loss on Sunday. When requested later that night, Turner said, “I changed into pronouncing, ‘Double team Queen’ to attempt to see if I could aggravate him. And I did. I kept talking to my crew about what we wanted to do.
We called him ‘Queen’ because I knew it’d worsen him due to how essential he is to their group, the queen in chess. It changed into a play on his call to King. And it bothered him, [he] started thinking about me, commenced considering [Irvine guard] Max [Hazzard]. But he got here, returned, and finished the game genuinely sturdy. And he’d had a factor or two to say to me for the duration of the sport. And I wanted to let him understand that what I’d achieved changed out of respect.” It didn’t trouble him, given King led the Ducks in scoring. At this point, Turner must have regarded it as higher.