UCLA Bruins guard Kiki Rice recently attended a 2025 WNBA regular-season game with her boyfriend and Oklahoma City Thunder star Cason Wallace. On Sunday, Aug. 10, Rice was captured alongside 2025 NBA champion Wallace at the game between Paige Bueckers’ Dallas Wings and the Washington Mystics at the former’s home court, the College Park Center.
Rice is currently in the offseason after the conclusion of the 2024-25 college basketball season, in which she spent her junior year of collegiate hoops as the backcourt running mate of star stalwart Lauren Betts. Together, in the recently concluded campaign, they helped coach Cori Close’s Bruins reach the 2025 NCAA Final Four, where they were defeated by the eventual national champions, the UConn Huskies, by 34 points, 85-51.
“Omg it’s Kiki Rice & Cason Wallace 🤩,” Dallas Wings on Instagram captioned.
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Rice was then seen posing in her courtside seat right beside Wallace in a bright light blue hoodie, black shorts, quarter-length socks by Jordan Brand, and a crispy white pair of Nike Air Force 1. Wallace, who is coming off his 2025 NBA championship berth with the Thunder, was wearing an all-black outfit of a t-shirt and shorts, along with a personalized chain and the Air Jordan 3 “Black Cat” on his feet.
Rice and Wallace watched as the Mystics handled business against Bueckers and the Wings in away territory. Led by former USC Trojans standout Kiki Iriafen’s 23 points, 10 rebounds, and one assist in 23 minutes of action, coach Sydney Johnson’s Washington squad pulled through and won by 13 points, 91-78, to improve to an overall record of 14-17. They are now the fourth seed in the Eastern Conference.
On the other hand, coach Chris Koclanes’ Wings fell further to an overall record of 8-24, ranking dead last in league standings so far. They are on a five-game losing streak. In the losing effort, Bueckers had 17 points, three rebounds, three assists, and two steals in 31 minutes of playing time.
Kiki Rice will enter her fourth season of college basketball along with Lauren Betts in the 2025-26 season
Kiki Rice is slated to play out her fourth campaign of collegiate hoops in the 2025-26 season alongside Lauren Betts and the UCLA Bruins.
The Bruins’ 2025 NCAA Final Four run was the deepest that the program has ever gone in the national tournament, and with this, Rice and Betts are presumably focused on bringing UCLA its first-ever national championship. They finished the 2024-25 season with an overall record of 34-3 (16-2, Big Ten).
