Lying flat on her back, Kiki Rice covered her eyes. She rolled to her feet and pounded the floor with her first.
Rice’s last-gasp three-point shot at the buzzer went off the glass and nearly bounced through the rim, but her career-best 25 points wasn’t enough to lead No. 2 UCLA to a comeback victory over Washington State at Pauley Pavilion on Sunday. The Bruins (16-3, 6-3 Pac-12) nearly erased a 20-point third-quarter deficit, but lost 85-82 in a rematch of last year’s Pac-12 tournament championship game.
Charisma Osborne scored 16 of her 20 points in the second half, adding four rebounds and five assists while the Bruins tried to preserve their perfect home record this season.