UCLA Bruins star Lauren Betts is taking on all the opportunities she can get in the ongoing women’s college basketball offseason. On Monday, Aug. 11, she uploaded a collage of photos on her Instagram account. In the snaps, Betts is seen in a photoshoot, holding a basketball and posing with an athletic fit of a bright pink crop top shirt, black compression bottoms and black pants, which are presumably from global sportswear brand Under Armour.
Betts is known to be the standout center coming out of the Bruins women’s college basketball program. For a school represented by Jordan Brand, NIL opportunities even from a rival brand like Under Armor speaks of the stature Betts is slowly progressing towards with her basketball career.
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Betts and the rest of coach Cori Close’s squad is coming off a 2024-25 season in which they gave the Bruins its most successful year yet. UCLA went all the way to the 2025 NCAA Final Four, which was the first time the program had reached the stage, and it was the consensus overall No. 1-ranked squad throughout the nation. They finished the campaign with an overall record of 34-3 (16-2 Big Ten).
Lauren Betts will be returning to the UCLA Bruins for the 2025-26 season due to her college life
In an article published by college basketball writer Aishwarya Kumar on ESPN in Feb. of this year, Lauren Betts confirmed that she will be returning to play out her senior stint of collegiate hoops in the 2025-26 season with the UCLA Bruins.
Betts was asked for the reasoning behind her decision. She said she wants to live out her college life to the fullest.
“College is the best years of your life, and so I don’t think I’d ever give that up. Why not be spoiled for a whole another year? The way the coaches take care of us in this program, like, how comfortable I am here, and I think that the friendships I’ve created. I’d want to do that for another year,” Betts was quoted as saying.
Betts, who finished her junior year of college hoops in the 2024-25 campaign, will turn 22 this October, meaning that she would’ve already been eligible to be drafted into the WNBA despite not exhausting four years of collegiate basketball. Betts was originally projected to be a top selection in the draft should she have declared, but will now look to give UCLA its first NCAA title.
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