President Trump Hasn't Congratulated The UCLA Women's Basketball Team On Their Championship, And Here's What Jimmy Kimmel Hilariously Said They Should Do

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ICYMI: The UCLA women's hoops squad won its first-ever NCAA National Championship past weekend, and that called for a large celebration!

They defeated South Carolina 79-51, making it the team's archetypal nationalist rubric since 1978. And the bragging rights don't halt there! They had a 28-point lead, the third-largest successful a Division I women's title final.

UCLA's Lauren Betts, Kiki Rice, Gabriela Jaquez, Angela Dugalić, and manager Cori Close precocious dropped by Jimmy Kimmel Live to speech astir the humanities win, bringing their title trophy on for the ride.

From instantly kicking disconnected the celebrations astatine Rocco's Tavern successful Westwood to their 31-game winning streak this season, the girls had a batch to speech about. "We each truly cared each play agelong astir the 1 we conscionable got," Cori said astir the title game.

Lauren was besides named Most Outstanding Player, and erstwhile asked if she preferred MOP vs. MVP, she commented:

And with women's sports skyrocketing, the squad aboriginal talked astir their accrued viewership implicit the past 4 years and their gratitude for each the instrumentality support.

It's the extremity of an epoch for six graduating players (including the 4 who appeared connected the show), meaning the WNBA draught is connected the horizon. "They volition acceptable a grounds for the astir players ever drafted from 1 schoolhouse and 1 class," Cori said. And the girls deliberation "it'll beryllium fun" to vie against each different if they extremity up connected antithetic teams.

When talking astir the large win, they were unfazed contempt having "all of ESPN stake against [them]." Former president Obama adjacent congratulated the team, which the girls were beauteous excited about.

But erstwhile asked if President Trump had congratulated them, determination were a clump of crickets, and they revealed they had not heard from him. "I'm definite he's busy," said Jimmy. "In 2 weeks, you'll perceive from him." The girls giggled with laughter.

Jimmy past hilariously presented a "fake" trophy that the squad tin contiguous to Trump if they sojourn the White House. "He's not gonna know, but erstwhile you bring a trophy, sometimes helium takes it and keeps it for himself," Jimmy said.

"So, this is for you guys to instrumentality to the White House, and past you tin say, 'President Trump, we privation you to person this.' He'll beryllium truthful happy," Jimmy continued. "It's called the aged switcheroo."

Watch the team's afloat interrogation here.

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