It's been quite the basketball week for the Betts family. First, UCLA Bruins junior center Lauren Betts helped lead her squad to the Final 4 with a pair of domi

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.

It's hard to imagine the UCLA Bruins star center looking up to anyone, especially when it's her little brother.

Betts still piled up the numbers despite spending the entire second quarter on the bench after committing two first-quarter fouls.

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.

Lauren Betts was so dominant inside that she barely missed, scoring 31 points on 15-of-16 shooting to lead UCLA past Mississippi 76-62 and sending the Bruins to the Elite Eight of the women's NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2018.

But in Sunday’s Elite Eight matchup against UCLA, Mulkey will have the challenge of trying to get her team to contain UCLA 6-foot-7 center Lauren Betts, whose skill set has shades of Griner’s college days. Everything UCLA does runs through Betts.

Betts is one of the tallest players in women's college basketball, standing 6-foot-7, according to UCLA's website. Her height, of course, makes her quite the threat to opposing teams.