LONG BEACH — Cori Close became the winningest UCLA women’s basketball coach in program history on Saturday afternoon when the Bruins beat Long Beach State, 102-51, at the Walter Pyramid.
Close now has 297 wins in her 14 seasons with UCLA. She surpassed Billie Moore, who coached the Bruins from 1977-1993 and died in 2022 after a battle with multiple myeloma.
“I remember specifically I was playing at UC Santa Barbara and we were driving down to UCLA playing against a really good Billie Moore team,” Close told reporters Friday.