UCLA's unconventional strategy to win a national title — all seniors, all the time

To win its first NCAA basketball title, UCLA leaned on its oldest players to an extreme degree. It paid off with a stunning championship using a difficult-to-replicate blueprint

One by one, UCLA women’s basketball coach Cori Close substituted out her starting lineup in the final minutes of her team’s national championship victory Sunday.

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Point guard Kiki Rice, a senior.

All-American center Lauren Betts, a senior.