Cori Close, right, served four years as the starting point guard for UCSB women’s basketball coach Mark French and another nine as his assistant coach. She is now the head coach at UCLA and will ...

UCSB, which has won five of its first six games this year, hosts 15th ranked UCLA on Saturday at 7p. The Bruins are coached by former UCSB player and assistant coach Cori Close.

UCSB graduate Cori Close has coached the Bruins to a 30-2 record and the No. 1 seed for this year’s NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament Two things stood out when the local newspaper assigned me ...

UCLA coach Cori Close led the No. 2-seeded Bruins to a 72-65 win against the LSU Tigers in an ill-tempered Elite Eight game on Sunday.

“Cori has always been close to the UCLA program, from her years working at UCSB and her relationship with Coach Wooden,” UCLA four-time All-American Ann Meyers Drysdale said in a statement.

Cori Close played basketball for UC Santa Barbara and was an assistant coach for 18 years at three different universities before taking over as UCLA's coach in 2011.

UCLA named Cori Close as its new women's basketball coach Thursday. ... Close graduated from UCSB in 1993 after majoring in sociology and was the recipient of UCSB's Distinguished Senior Award.

After a career arc that has spanned from the UCSB Gauchos, UCLA women's hoops head coach Cori Close has seen all sides of college basketball. Close spent decades as an assistant coach before ...

-Last weekend Cori Close became the UCLA women's basketball all-time leader in wins with 297. The former UCSB point guard and assistant coach added to that win total at the expense of Cal Poly.

UCLA coach Cori Close and the third-seeded Bruins open the NCAA tournament Saturday when they play host to No. 14 American University at Pauley Pavilion. News Home Page ...