Alexander: UCLA women boat-race Oregon — and they’ll hear about it – Orange County Register

LOS ANGELES — Every season is its own journey, and while the twists and turns can be anticipated, they’re not necessarily predictable.

And while UCLA women’s basketball continued the momentum that has them ranked fourth in the AP Top 25, with what at first glance would seem to have been an easy 80-59 rout of Oregon in their Big Ten opener Sunday afternoon, there were those moments during the course of the afternoon, the ones that coach Cori Close tends to address quickly and emphatically.

The Bruins are now 9-1 against a non-conference schedule that included four ranked opponents, with victories over Oklahoma, North Carolina, and Tennessee and a loss to Texas in the championship game of the Players Era event in Las Vegas Nov. 26.

They faced an Oregon club that came into Pauley Pavi