‘Embarrassing’ loss for ‘Trojans against old rival

[USC women, from D6]

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GUARD Jazzy Davidson, USC's leading scorer, was held to 10 points by Gabriela Jaquez and UCLA.

(ERIC THAYER Los Angeles Times)

rival, outrebounded 46 to 26 and outworked in pretty much every sense of the word.

The offense was out of sorts. The defense was disastrous, with UCLA regularly blowing past USCinthe post onits way to 46 points in the paint.

It was an eyeopening collapse from a team that came into the season still clinging to national title aspirations. To a frustrated Gottlieb it was “a hard lesson that’s painful and not fun” — but one USC (10-4, 21 Big Ten) perhaps needed to learn to take the next step.