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UCLA head coach Cori Close celebrates after cutting down the net after UCLA defeated South Carolina in the women's National Championship Final Four NCAA college basketball tournament game, Sunday, April 5, 2026, in Phoenix.
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Ann Meyers Drysdale will always be a Bruin. She won a title with UCLA nearly 50 years ago in the now dissolved AIAW. That was the postseason tournament for women’s college basketball before the NCAA took over in 1982. She was filled with the same joy watching UCLA defeat South Carolina for its first NCAA-era title on Sunday. A lot has changed besides the sport’s governing body in the five decades since she and her teammates hoisted that trophy, but Meyers Drysdale’s presence within the Bruins program has remained the same.
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