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Emma Baccellieri

This Isn’t UCLA’s First Women’s Final Four

Ann Meyers (left) and Anita Ortega (right) helped lead the Bruins to the 1978 AIAW championship win over Maryland. | Bettmann Archive/Getty Images

Cori Close began her first press conference en route to the Final Four with a clarification.

The UCLA Bruins coach had seen her team described as the first in program history to make it this far in the tournament. And it was, in fact, the first UCLA women’s team ever to reach the NCAA Final Four. But there was a bit of history lost in the space between those sentences.

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