Husky women’s regular season wraps up with defeat to 17th-ranked UCLA

Seattle Sports

LOS ANGELES — Charisma Osborne scored 11 of her 19 points in the fourth quarter to lift the No. 17 UCLA women to a 70-62 win over Washington on Saturday to close the regular season.

KiKi Rice added 15 points for the Bruins (22-8, 11-7 Pac-12 Conference). Londynn Jones had 10 points as all 10 players scored for UCLA.

Haley Van Dyke scored 12 points for the Huskies (15-13, 7-11) and Elle Ladine and Hannah Stines added 11 each.

The Bruins scored the first seven points of the third quarter to take a 40-34 lead. Later, Rice made two free throws to make it 48-39. The lead was seven heading into the fourth quarter.

The Huskies pulled within 57-53 midway through the final quarter on a Ladine three-pointer. Osborne then hit a jumper and a three and had nine points in an 11-2 run for a 13-point lead with less than two minutes to play.

Washington shot only 39% but was 8 of 18 (44%) from three-point range and 14 of 14 from the foul line. The Huskies had 17 turnovers. UCLA shot 48% with six three-pointers.

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UCLA led by 10 on a Jones layup late in the first quarter but the Huskies scored the last seven points to pull within 16-13. After a Bruins bucket to open the second quarter, Washington scored seven more, taking a 20-18 lead on a three-pointer by Ladine. Stines hit a three in the final minute of the quarter to give Washington a 34-33 lead at the break.

Washington will be the No. 8 seed in the Pac-12 tournament, playing No. 9 seed Oregon on Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. in Las Vegas.

Also Wednesday, fifth-seeded UCLA will face No. 12 Arizona State (noon); No. 7 Washington State takes on No. 10 California (6 p.m.); and No. 6 USC meets No. 11 Oregon State (8:30 p.m.).

Utah, Stanford, Colorado and Arizona all earned first-round byes.