The 2023–24 UCLA Bruins women's basketball team represented the University of California, Los Angeles during the

2023–24 NCAA Division I women's basketball season The 2023–24 NCAA Division I women's basketball season began on November 6, 2023. The regular season ended on March 17, 2024, with the 2024 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament beginning on March 20 and ending with the 2024 NCAA Division ...

. The Bruins were led by 13th-year head coach

Cori Close Cori Rashel Close (born July 29, 1971) is the current head women's basketball coach for the UCLA Bruins. She was hired by the Bruins in 2011. Before UCLA, she spent time as an assistant coach at Florida State University and her alma mater, UC Sant ...

. They played their home games at Pauley Pavilion and competed as members of the

Pac-12 Conference The Pac-12 Conference is a collegiate List of NCAA conferences, athletic conference, that operates in the Western United States, participating in 24 sports at the NCAA Division I level. Its College football, football teams compete in the NCAA D ...

. This was also the last season for UCLA played in the Pac-12 Conference before moving to the Big Ten Conference on August 1, 2024. Prior to the season, the Bruins secured the signing of highly touted center

Lauren Betts Lauren Marie Betts (born October 15, 2003) is an American college basketball player for the UCLA Bruins of the Pac-12 Conference. She played for Grandview High School in Aurora, Colorado, where she was ranked as the number one recruit in her cla ...

, the former top-ranked high school recruit in the country who was transferring to UCLA from conference rival

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after one season in which she received limited playing time.

Previous season

UCLA finished the season 27–10, 11–7 in Pac-12 play, to finish in a tie for fourth place. As the fifth seed in the Pac-12 tournament, they defeated Arizona State in the first round, Arizona in the quarterfinals, and

in the semifinals before losing in the championship game to Washington State. They received an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament as a 4th seed in the Greenville Regional 1, where they defeated

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in the first round and

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in the second round to advance to the Sweet Sixteen for the first time since 2019, where they lost to 1-seed South Carolina.

Offseason

Departures

Incoming

Recruiting

Recruiting class of 2024

Roster

Schedule and results

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Rankings

''*The preseason and week 1 polls were the same.''
''^Coaches did not release a week 2 poll.''

Awards and honors

* February 29, 2024 – Coach Cori Close is the recipient of the 2024 WBCA Carol Eckman Integrity in Coaching Award * March 5, 2024 – Lauren Betts, Kiki Rice, and Charisma Osborne named to the All-Pac-12 Team * March 5, 2024 – Lauren Betts and Charisma Osborne named to the Pac-12 All-Defensive Team * April 15, 2024 – Charisma Osborne is selected by the

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with the 25th pick in the 2024 WNBA draft

References

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