{"id":70933,"date":"2026-04-05T17:55:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T22:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/05\/ucla-capture-first-ncaa-womens-basketball-title-79-51-over-south-carolina\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T17:55:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T22:55:42","slug":"ucla-capture-first-ncaa-womens-basketball-title-79-51-over-south-carolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/05\/ucla-capture-first-ncaa-womens-basketball-title-79-51-over-south-carolina\/","title":{"rendered":"UCLA capture first NCAA women\u2019s basketball title, 79-51 over South Carolina"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Gabriela Jaquez scores 21 points in rout<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Victory margin is third-largest in NCAA history<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Gabriela Jaquez scored 21 points, Lauren Betts added 16 and UCLA routed South Carolina 79-51 Sunday to win their first NCAA championship in women\u2019s basketball.<\/p>\n<p>The near-record lopsided victory completed the Bruins\u2019 journey through this year\u2019s March Madness that started after a loss to UConn in last season\u2019s Final Four. The Bruins ran through their opponents this season with their only loss coming in November, to Texas in a Thanksgiving tournament.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/apr\/05\/ucla-ncaa-tournament-championsship-south-carolina-gabriela-jaquez\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gabriela Jaquez scores 21 points in rout Victory margin is third-largest in NCAA history Gabriela Jaquez scored 21 points, Lauren Betts added 16 and UCLA routed South Carolina 79-51 Sunday to win their first NCAA championship in women\u2019s basketball. The near-record lopsided victory completed the Bruins\u2019 journey through this year\u2019s March Madness that started after &#8230; <a title=\"UCLA capture first NCAA women\u2019s basketball title, 79-51 over South Carolina\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/05\/ucla-capture-first-ncaa-womens-basketball-title-79-51-over-south-carolina\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about UCLA capture first NCAA women\u2019s basketball title, 79-51 over 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-70933","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\/70933","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=70933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}