UC Riverside Highlanders
6-6 - 1st in Big West2025 Schedule
— JuJu Watkins' favorite player has been LeBron James from way back. The NBA's career scoring leader stuck around to watch her put on a show.
— Gabriela Jaquez and Kiki Rice scored 18 points, Lauren Betts added 14 points with 15 rebounds, and No. 4 UCLA turned a fast start into an easy 90-52 victory over UC Riverside on Thursday night.
UC Riverside announced on Thursday that it had saved the athletics department, which will continue to operate at the Division I level.
No spectators will be allowed at games initially, although the Big West said it will revisit that issue as the season progresses.
Oregon's Jaz Shelley scores six consecutive points for her team with back-to-back 3-pointers.
Jaz Shelley gets a long pass with less than three seconds left in the third quarter and drains the deep 3-pointer before the buzzer goes off.
Sabrina Ionescu had a career-high 18 rebounds in her latest triple-double and No. 3 Oregon routed UC Riverside 84-41 on Monday.
Aarion McDonald scored 11 of her 14 points in first half and No. 24 Arizona beat UC Riverside 70-27 on Friday.
John Margaritis resigned as UC Riverside's women's basketball coach on Saturday as the school was set to start a second investigation into allegations of verbal and emotional abuse toward student athletes by him.
Big West Standings
TEAM | W | L | GB | OVR |
---|---|---|---|---|
UC San Diego | 78.3 | - | 2 | 11 |
UC Riverside | 71.5 | 3 | 5 | 8 |
UC Davis | 68.4 | 3.5 | 5 | 7 |
Long Beach Sta.. | 67.3 | 5.5 | 8 | 6 |
UC Irvine | 73.2 | 0.5 | 2 | 10 |
Cal State Nort.. | 80.9 | 2.5 | 4 | 8 |
Hawai'i | 73.2 | 3 | 4 | 7 |
UC Santa Barba.. | 75.2 | 3.5 | 5 | 7 |
Cal Poly | 83.9 | 5.5 | 8 | 6 |
Cal State Bake.. | 73.9 | 5.5 | 8 | 6 |
Cal State Full.. | 61.5 | 7 | 9 | 4 |