UCLA Wins First NCAA Title in Resounding Blowout
PHOENIX — History belongs to Cori Close and the UCLA Bruins.
Friday night was the program’s first Final Four win in the NCAA era and on Sunday they capped it off with their first NCAA championship, thrashing the Gamecocks 79–51.
UCLA women’s basketball won its first national championship in 1978, when women’s college sports were governed by the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics. The AIAW was founded in 1971 and was replaced 10 years later when the NCAA began hosting women’s championships in the 1981–82 season.
Denise Curry, Anita Ortega, Ann Meyers Drysdale, and Heidi Nestor led the 1978 team coached by Billie Moore to UCLA’s first AIAW national championship. Ahead of the second quarter Drysdale was honored with other members of the 1976 U.S. women’s olympic basketball team. Standing at center court she lifted up her red, white, and blue USA Basketball polo to reveal a UCLA t-shirt underneath.
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