After concluding its regular season with an 73-50 win over crosstown rival USC on Sunday, No. 2 UCLA women’s basketball (28-1, 18-0) heads to Indianapolis, Indiana for its second-ever Big Ten tournament as the reigning champions.

Goose eggs lined the Bruins’ side of the scoreboard heading into the seventh inning Tuesday.
UCLA had sent 25 batters to the plate through six frames, and none had recorded a hit.

It was a Bruin career few could watch start, and even fewer knew when it was at its end.
Cameron Kim – a former member of the Bruins’ No.

John Savage’s mantra has stayed the same throughout his 21-year tenure at the helm of UCLA baseball.
Pitching and defense wins championships.
But Sunday, junior right-hander Landon Stump allowed three runs in just 2.1 innings pitched – his shortest start since tossing just two-plus frames against No.

This post was updated Feb. 16 at 12:18 a.m.
UCLA football coach Bob Chesney, former men’s basketball forward Jaime Jaquez Jr. and three-time Olympian Jackie Joyner-Kersee were all at Pauley Pavilion on Sunday.

The show did not begin as advertised.
Logan Reddemann – the Bruins’ top-of-the-line transfer acquisition – had just one swing and miss by the time his 50th pitch ended up in left field.

A baseball team’s best hitter can only bat once every nine times.
Collegiate starting pitchers often only take the mound once a week.
Even elite defenders have limits to their range.

This post was updated Feb. 9 at 12:22 a.m.
Bubblegum, bubblegum, in a dish.
Five seconds, four, three, two – shoot.

Miss.

Wolverine guard Syla Swords ran to the perimeter in the bright, magenta shoes every player was wearing as part of Michigan’s Pink Game on Sunday.

The favorite, the underdog, the anti-hero and the villain.
Expectations and perception shape archetypes.
But what happens when the hype is so high that the best-case scenario is simply meeting expectations?

This post was updated Feb. 8 at 11:57 p.m.
They will give you a foul for crying foul about a foul.
They will even give you a foul for crying foul about a not-foul.