The Riverside Press-Enterprise
No. 2 UCLA women fall to No. 16 Utah on road in overtime
Kennady Mcqueen had a season-high 21 points, Dasia Young and Matyson Wilke each made four 3-pointers and No. 16 Utah upended No. 2 UCLA 94-81 in overtime late on Monday night in Salt Lake City.
“Normally, it’s Alissa (Pili) coming up in those huge moments but seeing her struggle, she knows that we’re more than capa- ble,” Mcqueen said. “She was hyp- ing us all up the entire time. Ev- eryone else just stepped up individually tonight.”
Gabriela Jaquez scored 21 points, Kiki Rice added 16 and Charisma Osborne had 14 for the Bruins (152, 4-2), who were outscored 22-9 in overtime after a remarkable fourth-quarter comeback.
“We showed a lot of guts to put us in a position to where I thought we should have won the game,” UCLA coach Cori Close said. “We got to close that out.”
In overtime, Pili finally made her mark with a rebound putback and two free throws on consecutive possessions to put Utah up 83-76 with 2:01 remaining. UCLA, which was outrebounded for the first time all season (38-35), never got close after that.
Utah’s Ines Vieira, who had 12 points, made a driving layup to send the game to overtime after Camryn Brown made a free throw with four seconds remaining in regulation.
“Ines’s layup — that wasn’t even the play — but she just made a read and it was perfect,” Mcqueen said.
The Bruins clamped down in the fourth quarter, forcing five turnovers and 1-for-9 shooting before Wilke hit her fourth 3-pointer of the game to make it 70-64.
“We didn’t win many hustle plays until the fourth quarter,” Close said. “We got stops, attacking in transition, getting secondshot opportunities.”
Young and Wilke each had season highs of 16 points to overcome an off game by Pili — the reigning conference player of the year and former USC Trojan — who had 16 points on 4-of-15 shooting.
“(Pili) doesn’t care how many points she scores,” Wilke said. “She wasn’t mad ... and wasn’t telling us, ‘Guys, I need the ball.’ She kept passing it when when we were open and it just shows we love each other and we’re gonna do anything we can to win.”
Utah (14-5, 4-3 Pac-12) hadn’t defeated a team ranked this high.
“We were sick of coming up short,” Utah coach Lynne Roberts said. “So we have a bit of an attitude.”
Utah had lost to five ranked teams before breaking through in their last two games against top 10 teams USC and UCLA.
UCLA next plays host to Washington on Friday.
Women's highlights
NO. 4 KANSAS STATE 58, NO. 13 BAYLOR 55 >> Eliza Maupin, Gabby Gregory and Serena Sundell each had 16 points and Kansas State, playing without injured standout center Ayoka Lee, rallied late to extend its winning streak to 13 games with a win over Baylor at Waco, Texas.
Jaelyn Glenn blocked a gameending 3-point attempt by Dre’una Edwards that could have tied the score.
The Wildcats (19-1, 8-0 Big 12), whose only loss is to Iowa, had moved up three spots in the latest AP poll, their highest ranking since 2003.
Men's highlights
NO. 3 NORTH CAROLINA 85, WAKE FOREST 64 >> RJ Davis scored a career-high 36 points and thirdranked North Carolina dominated after halftime to beat Wake Forest on Monday night, remaining the lone unbeaten team in Atlantic Coast Conference play.
The 6-foot senior scored 23 points after halftime for the Tar Heels (16-3, 8-0 ACC), who trailed by one at the break after failing to make a 3-pointer.
Davis finally got UNC on the scoreboard from behind the arc, starting an 18-4 run that blew the game open.
NO. 7 KANSAS 74, CINCINNATI 69 >> Johnny Furphy had career-highs of 23 points and 11 rebounds, Kevin Mccullar Jr. scored 20 despite struggling with his shot, and Kansas beat Cincinnati in the first Big 12 matchup between the schools.
KJ Adams Jr. added 11 points and Hunter Dickinson overcame foul trouble to score 10, helping the Jayhawks (16-3, 4-2) bounce back from a loss at West Virginia and extend their homecourt winning streak to 15 games.