UCLA's Cori Close got emotional recalling the time she coached Azzi Fudd and Lauren Betts with USA Basketball. Now she'll face Fudd in the Final Four.

Ahead of their first Final Four appearance in program history, UCLA women's basketball star Lauren Betts revealed a spicy new NIL partnership. The All-American first-team member and National Defensive Player of the Year has collaborated with official UCLA sponsor La Victoria Brand,

Who is Lauren Betts? Here's what to know on the UCLA women's basketball star forward from her season stats to her family and more:

If Ole Miss managed to push her out far enough from the basket where she couldn’t back down from her defender, Betts would go out on the perimeter and set a screen for her ballhandler, clearing the runway for a drive to the basket, a tactic that junior point guard Kiki Rice used to great effect.

The Bruins' junior center continues to improve her game during a dominant run in the NCAA tournament. The Tigers will try to slow her down Sunday.

The Bruins were led, like they were all season, by Wooden Award finalist Lauren Betts. The 6-foot-7 junior had 17 points, seven rebounds and six blocks, while Gabriela Jaquez's 18 points and Timea Gardiner's 15 helped see UCLA over the line.

JuJu Watkins of USC and Lauren Betts of UCLA were named finalists for the women's John R. Wooden Award on Tuesday, which is given to the nation's most outstanding college player.

Lauren Betts had 17 points and seven rebounds despite spending the entire second quarter on the bench, and top overall seed UCLA reached its first Final Four of the women’s NCAA Tournament with a 72-65 victory over LSU.