Ahead of showdown with Maryland, UCLA women stay on guard against complacency

After two wins on the road, the UCLA women’s basketball team is happy to be back at Pauley Pavilion for Big Ten games Sunday and Wednesday against No. 12 Maryland and Purdue. UCLA coach Cori Close put her squad through a rigorous workout Friday afternoon after not being completely satisfied with recent practices. “It wasn’t the games ... it was that in practice we didn’t come out with the intensity that we needed to,” Close said. “There’s a standard and if you don’t meet it, practice needs to be very uncomfortable. My biggest job is to hold us to that standard day-in and day-out.”...