UCLA women's basketball highly touted freshman players have been at the forefront of the Bruins' surge into the Pac-12 conference tournament title game.
flashed her potential immediately with double-figure scoring during three of her first four games.
Freshman forwards Christeen Iwuala and Lina Sontag came off the bench against Stanford to lift the Bruins in a physical battle against Cardinal star Cameron Brink. Sontag had four points, four rebounds and three steals, and Iwuala had four rebounds and two assists in less than seven minutes. Although the results were painful, the Bruins found solace in their performances that showed their progress. They were meeting goals in passion plays and paint touches, and identified two key areas of improvement: defensive rebounding, especially from guards, and live-ball turnovers.
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