UCLA Bruins women's basketball
| UCLA Bruins | |||||||||||
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| University | University of California, Los Angeles | ||||||||||
| Head coach | Cori Close (15th season) | ||||||||||
| Location | Los Angeles, California | ||||||||||
| Arena | Pauley Pavilion (capacity: 12,829) | ||||||||||
| Conference | Big Ten | ||||||||||
| Nickname | Bruins | ||||||||||
| Colors | Blue and gold | ||||||||||
| Student section | The Den | ||||||||||
| All-time record | 890–549 (.618) | ||||||||||
| NCAA Division I tournament Final Four | |||||||||||
| 2025 | |||||||||||
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| AIAW tournament champions | |||||||||||
| 1978 | |||||||||||
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| Conference tournament champions | |||||||||||
| Pac-12: 2006 Big Ten: 2025, 2026 | |||||||||||
| Conference regular-season champions | |||||||||||
| Pac-12: 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1999 Big Ten: 2026 | |||||||||||
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The UCLA Bruins women's basketball team, established in 1974, represents the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in the Big Ten Conference. The team competes in women's college basketball against teams from the Division I level of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). The current coach is Cori Close. Home games are played in Pauley Pavilion in Los Angeles.
The team was a member of the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) until joining the NCAA in 1981-82 season. The team was a member of the Western Collegiate Athletic Association conference until women's basketball was organized in the Pac-10 conference for the 1986-87 season. The UCLA Bruins women's basketball team won the AIAW National Championship in 1978, and a banner commemorating the championship hangs in Pauley Pavilion. The 2014–15 team won the 2015 WNIT championship. In the 2025 season, the Bruins made their first final four appearance in the modern era of the NCAA championship.