UCLA women need to fix slow-start issue during final homestand

LOS ANGELES — The ninth-ranked UCLA women’s basketball team has lost to unranked teams just twice this season. The first came in a double-overtime thriller at rival USC on Jan. 17, while the second came last weekend at Washington.
Once again, UCLA opened a game unable to string together an effective run and fell behind by double digits in the first half. However, unlike their most recent come-from-behind wins, the Bruins couldn’t create enough momentum to dig out of the early h