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Lauren Betts Named Associated Press Preseason All-America
October 21, 2025 | Women's Basketball
LOS ANGELES โ Senior Lauren Betts has been named to The Associated Press All-America women's college basketball team, the publication announced Tuesday.
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Betts โ a 2024-25 AP first-team All-American โ headlines the preseason team after a stellar junior campaign. The center is joined by Hannah Hidalgo of Notre Dame, Madison Booker of Texas, UConn's Sarah Strong and South Carolina's Ta'Niya Latson on the AP's team. Betts and Hidalgo earned 29 votes each from the publication's 31-member national media panel.
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The 2025 Lisa Leslie Center of the Year also earned herself unanimous Defensive Player of the Year as voted by Big Ten coaches. She was the first Bruin with 600+ points, 300+ rebounds, 100+ blocks in a season when her junior campaign completed; Betts also set a new single-season blocks record with her 100 rejections last year and captured the UCLA single-game blocks record with nine against No. 25 Baylor at the Coretta Scott King Classic. The team's leading scorer (20.2 PPG) marked a new career-high with 33 points at No. 8 Maryland, one of four games in which she scored 30+ points. She swept the national Defensive Player of the Year awards (AP, Naismith, WBCA) and was the first UCLA women's basketball player to earn AP First Team All-America honors.
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Betts โ a 2024-25 AP first-team All-American โ headlines the preseason team after a stellar junior campaign. The center is joined by Hannah Hidalgo of Notre Dame, Madison Booker of Texas, UConn's Sarah Strong and South Carolina's Ta'Niya Latson on the AP's team. Betts and Hidalgo earned 29 votes each from the publication's 31-member national media panel.
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The 2025 Lisa Leslie Center of the Year also earned herself unanimous Defensive Player of the Year as voted by Big Ten coaches. She was the first Bruin with 600+ points, 300+ rebounds, 100+ blocks in a season when her junior campaign completed; Betts also set a new single-season blocks record with her 100 rejections last year and captured the UCLA single-game blocks record with nine against No. 25 Baylor at the Coretta Scott King Classic. The team's leading scorer (20.2 PPG) marked a new career-high with 33 points at No. 8 Maryland, one of four games in which she scored 30+ points. She swept the national Defensive Player of the Year awards (AP, Naismith, WBCA) and was the first UCLA women's basketball player to earn AP First Team All-America honors.
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