UCLA women, coping with first loss, host Washington

The late Friday night was becoming an early Saturday morning, and UCLA women’s basketball head coach Cori Close was on a red-eye flight out to the East Coast for recruiting.
The No. 10 Bruins had just lost their first game all season. Their program-record perfect start had come to an end in double-overtime against crosstown rival USC on Friday night at the Galen Center.
Despite the loss, Close’s phone kept buzzing with notifications of text messages from her players. One by one, the