January 7, 2021 GMT
LOS ANGELES (AP) Ninth-ranked UCLA will not play Friday’s game against Colorado because the Bruins do not have enough healthy players.
Coach Cori Close said the Bruins will not meet the Pac-12 Conference’s minimum of seven healthy scholarship players ahead of the game. UCLA is hoping to reschedule the game for later in the season.
The Bruins have had a limited roster all season, suiting only eight players. Freshmen Izzy Anstey and Gemma Potter remain in Australia due to pandemic travel restrictions and sophomore Brynn Masikewich is rehabbing an injury in Canada. Junior Chantel Horvat has been sidelined nearly a month due to an ankle injury.
Reinforcements are coming for UCLA women’s basketball.
With two-thirds of their freshman class still stuck in limbo due to COVID-19 travel restrictions, the Bruins added guard Dominique Darius to their roster Monday as an early enrollee. The 5-foot-9 guard who won two state titles in high sc
Australian Opals coach Sandy Brondello invigorated by talent on display in 2020 WNBL season
By Megan Hustwaite
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Sandy Brondello (centre) has high hopes for the Opals in the coming years.
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Australian Opals coach Sandy Brondello may just be the most dedicated and invested viewer of this WNBL season.
Key points:
She believed the WNBL deserved praise for getting a season underway amid its COVID-19 hub
Brondello expected Liz Cambage to be crucial to her plans for the Opals looking ahead to the Tokyo Olympics
With the league playing a condensed campaign out of a North Queensland hub over six weeks, Brondello who also coaches Phoenix Mercury in the WNBA was able to return home to Australia and cast her eye across the WNBL and her national squad members, both present and emerging.