Boston, South Carolina rally for win over UCLA

COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Aliyah Boston, looking arsenic steadfast arsenic ever, had 18 points, 10 rebounds and 4 blocks arsenic No. 1 South Carolina rallied from 10 points down to bushed No. 15 UCLA 73-64 connected Tuesday night.

Boston had missed the 2nd fractional successful a triumph implicit Hampton connected Sunday aft a hard fall. She returned to the seat successful that crippled with a walking footwear connected her close foot.

But Boston started and played 35 minutes against the Bruins (7-1) to assistance the Gamecocks (7-0) flooded a 31-21 shortage close earlier halftime to triumph their 17th consecutive implicit a ranked opponent.

It was Boston's 65th vocation double-double and 32nd against a ranked hostile implicit 4 seasons.

Georgia Tech transportation Kierra Fletcher had a double-double with 12 points and 10 rebounds portion the 6-foot-7 Kamilla Cardoso added a season-high 16 points, 9 rebounds and 5 of the Gamecocks' 15 blocked shots.

The crippled was tied astatine 47-all entering the 4th quarter. That's erstwhile the Gamecocks turned up their smothering defense, holding UCLA to conscionable 3 tract goals successful the last 10 minutes.

Zia Cooke's tiebreaking bucket with 5:37 near successful the crippled South Carolina up for bully astatine 54-52. The Gamecocks led by arsenic galore arsenic 10 points successful the last minutes.

Charisma Osborne led UCLA with 24 points portion freshman Kiki Rice scored 16.

Early on, UCLA and Rice upped the gait and took things close into the bosom of South Carolina's smothering defence to physique a 10-point pb precocious successful the 2nd quarter.

South Carolina missed 11 consecutive shots during 1 stretch, including a series wherever it had 4 consecutive chances from adjacent in.

The Gamecocks showed immoderate beingness successful the last minutes arsenic Boston had 2 blocks and a handbasket to chopped things to 31-27 astatine the break. UCLA missed its past 7 shots of the quarter.