No. 13 Michigan State Falls to No. 2 UCLA in Annual Pink Game

Wednesday, February 11

East Lansing, Mich.

8 PM

Michigan State University

20-5,9-5Big Ten

#2/2 UCLA

24-1,14-0Big Ten

UCLA

Michigan St.

No. 13 Michigan State Falls to No. 2 UCLA in Annual Pink Game

2/11/2026 11:36:00 PM | Women's Basketball

Box Score UCLA 86, MSU 63 25 26 MSU WBB Combined Post-Game Quotes: UCLA

The Spartans forced 18 Bruin turnovers.

EAST LANSING, Mich. – On the annual Pink Game celebrating breast cancer awareness, No. 13 Spartan women's basketball lost to No. 2 UCLA, 86-63 Wednesday at the Breslin Center.

Michigan State falls to 20-5 overall and 9-5 in Big Ten action. The Bruins improve to 24-1 overall and stay perfect in league action with a 14-0 record.

Despite their lowest scoring output of the season, the Spartans had three players in double figures. Junior guard Rashunda Jones led the way with 15 points and three rebounds. Senior guard Emma Shumate scored 12 points off the bench, hitting three 3-pointers. Redshirt-sophomore guard Kennedy Blair scored 10 points with six assists.

UCLA was led 22 points and seven rebounds from Lauren Betts.

Making five-straight baskets, UCLA jumped out to an early 13-5 lead. Both teams hit a cold spell leading into the first media timeout with the Bruins leading 14-7 at the 4:34 mark. A Blair driving layup ended the Spartan drought, but UCLA remained in control, leading 23-9 after the first 10 minutes.

In the second quarter, UCLA used a 6-0 run to take a 31-11 lead midway through the period. Michigan State continued to struggle from the field, shooting a season-low 22.2 percent from the field. Blair led MSU in scoring in the first half with five points.

The Spartans looked to chisel away at the deficit in the third period. Jones scored six-straight for Michigan State to slow down the Bruins slightly. A 6-0 UCLA run was halted by Inés Sotelo. The quarter ended with the Bruins on top 66-38.

MSU had a 6-0 run early in the fourth quarter to make it a 68-44 game, but UCLA continued to find a response. The Spartans used another 6-0 run over the final 32 seconds to make it an 86-63 game. Shumate hit a 3-pointer and after a Jalyn Brown steal, Anna Terrian hit from long range. Michigan State out-scored UCLA 25-20 in the fourth period.

Michigan State now hit the road to take on No. 7 Michigan on Sunday, Feb. 15 at 4 p.m. The game will be broadcast on FS1.

Michigan State Women's Basketball Post-Game Notes

• No. 13/13 Michigan State squared off with No. 2/2 UCLA on Wednesday, marking the Spartans' third ranked opponent out of their last four games as part of the sixth in the last 10 games . . . it was MSU's second match-up against a Top 10 ranked team in the last four games, facing No. 9/9 Michigan on Feb. 1, and No. 3/3 on Wednesday, and the Spartans will play their third Top 10 foe out of five games with their next game at No. 7/7 Michigan this Sunday, Feb. 15.

• Overall, No. 2/2 UCLA was MSU's seventh ranked opponent of the season . . . MSU is now 3-4 vs. ranked opponents, starting with a neutral court win over No. 15/15 Ole Miss, 66-49 (12/22/25 in Cherokee, North Carolina), a road win at No. 23/23 Washington, 82-67, and a home win over No. 24/RV Nebraska, 73-71 (1/15/26), with losses at No. 11/13 Iowa, 75-68 (1/18/25), home loss vs. No. 9/9 Michigan, 94-91 in OT (2/1/26) and home loss to No. 22/19 Maryland, 86-70 (1/4/26), along with Wednesday's loss to No. 2/2 UCLA.

• Wednesday was MSU's first game played on Peacock this season, MSU's sixth different platform of the season.

• Michigan State started the same starting five for the 11th-straight game and the 12th overall time this season, with the feature five of junior guard Rashunda Jones, sophomore center Ines Sotelo, senior forward Grace VanSlooten, redshirt-sophomore guard Kennedy Blair and senior guard Jalyn Brown . . . it marks the Spartans' fifth different starting line-up of the season . . . Michigan State is now 8-4 with that starting five.

• Senior forward Grace VanSlooten, junior guard Rashunda Jones and redshirt-sophomore guard Kennedy Blair all started for the 25th game in a row, remaining the only three Spartans to start all 25 contests.

• Junior guard Rashunda Jones led the Spartans in scoring with 15 points, marking the fifth time this season that she's topped the team in scoring, but it was the first time MSU has lost when doing so, as the Spartans are now 4-1 when Jones leads or shares the lead in scoring.

• Jones' 15 points was her second double-figure scoring outing in a row and third in the last four games as part of the 18th total time this season out of the 25 games.

• Senior guard Emma Shumate tallied 12 points for her first double-figure scoring outing in the last eight games . . . Shumate's 12 points was a B1G season high for the Spartan sharp-shooter . . . overall, it was her sixth game in double-digits this season as part of her ninth game as a Spartan with 10+ points.

• Shumate netted three 3-pointers, marking her fourth outing in the last five games with three triples, as she now has made 13 3-pointers in the last five games. Shumate has now drained at least one triple in 22 of the 25 games this season.

• With the three 3-pointers, Shumate now has 54 triples on the season as part of 59 total field goals . . . Shumate's 54 3-pointers this season continues her top single-single mark of her career, topping the 44 treys last season . . . Shumate now has 98 3-pointers during her two-year Spartan career and 138 total 3-pointers in her collegiate career after 40 during her two seasons at Ohio State.

• Shumate's 98 career 3-pointers as a Spartan is just three shy of cracking MSU's Career 3-Pointers List, as Jamie Wesley holds the No. 20 spot with 101 3-pointers from 1994-98.

• For her MSU career, Shumate is now 98-of-234, good for 41.9 percent, which currently is No. 1 on the Spartans' Career 3-Point List, topping Lindsay Bowen (2002-06) at 40.1 percent (294-of-734).

• Shumate's 54 3-pointers is just 15 shy of cracking the Top 10 of MSU's single-season 3-pointers list, as Matilda Ekh currently has the No. 9 and 10 spots with 69 3-pointers in both the 2021-22 and 2022-23 seasons.

• The Spartan sharp-shooter Shumate's current 3-point percentage of 43.5 percent (54-of-124) is currently No. 3 on MSU's single-season 3-pointers list, trailing Lindsay Bowen (2002-03) at 46.4 percent (77-of-166) and Moira Joiner (2023-24) at 44.2 percent (80-of-181) . . . Shumate also currently holds the tied for No. 7 spot at 40.0 percent (44-of-110) from last season, matching Eileen Shea (1989-90) at 40.0 percent (50-of-125).

• Shumate also added two blocks as she has at least one block in the last two games and three of the last four, along with 10 of the last 12 games . . . overall, Shumate has at least one block in 14 total games this season, now with 18 total blocks.

• Additionally, Shumate swiped two assists, for her second multi-steal game in the last four outings after a career-high four steals vs. Michigan (2/1/26) . . . Shumate now has four games with two or more steals . . . she has at least one steal in 14 games this season.

• Redshirt-junior guard Kennedy Blair tallied 10 points for her sixth-straight game in double-digits, as part of her 19th game this season in double-figure scoring . . . it was her 23rd career game with 10+ points. Blair also dished out a game-high six assists, as she has distributed three or more helpers in the last five games as part of 23 total times out of the 25 games this season.

• Senior forward Grace VanSlooten was held to single-digits Wednesday with eight points, snapping her streak of consecutive games in double-figures at 11 in a row . . . it was just the third total time out of the 25 games this season that VanSlooten was kept under 10 points and only the fifth total time as a Spartan, as she scored double-figures in 22 of the 25 games this season and in 51 of 56 total games as a Spartan, and in 106 out of 119 games of her collegiate career.

• VanSlooten pulled down six rebounds, as she has seven-straight games with five or more boards . . . VanSlooten has pulled down five of more boards 18 times out of the 25 games this season, including doing so in 10 of the last 12 contests and 11 of the last 14.