{"id":70848,"date":"2026-04-03T23:55:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T04:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/03\/ucla-hold-off-texas-in-slugfest-to-set-up-title-game-matchup-with-south-carolina\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T23:55:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T04:55:00","slug":"ucla-hold-off-texas-in-slugfest-to-set-up-title-game-matchup-with-south-carolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/03\/ucla-hold-off-texas-in-slugfest-to-set-up-title-game-matchup-with-south-carolina\/","title":{"rendered":"UCLA hold off Texas in slugfest to set up title game matchup with South Carolina"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Bruins to play for first championship in program history<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/live\/2026\/apr\/03\/uconn-south-carolina-ucla-texas-final-four-live-updates\">As it happened: UCLA 51-44 Texas<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Lauren Betts had 16 points and made a huge block in the final minutes, and UCLA withstood a late charge by Texas on Friday night for a 51-44 win to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/live\/2026\/apr\/03\/uconn-south-carolina-ucla-texas-final-four-live-updates\">reach the national championship game<\/a> of the NCAA women\u2019s tournament for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>Manhandled by eventual national champion UConn in their first Final Four a year ago, the Bruins (36-1) dominated their way to another national semi-final with the best season in program history.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/apr\/04\/ucla-texas-womens-final-four-march-madness\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bruins to play for first championship in program history As it happened: UCLA 51-44 Texas Lauren Betts had 16 points and made a huge block in the final minutes, and UCLA withstood a late charge by Texas on Friday night for a 51-44 win to reach the national championship game of the NCAA women\u2019s tournament &#8230; <a title=\"UCLA hold off Texas in slugfest to set up title game matchup with South Carolina\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/03\/ucla-hold-off-texas-in-slugfest-to-set-up-title-game-matchup-with-south-carolina\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about UCLA hold off Texas in slugfest to set up title game matchup with South Carolina\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}