By Andrew Greif In a stunning rout, UCLA cruised past South Carolina 79-51 to win the program’s first NCAA women’s basketball national championship Sunday. Making its first title game since the NCAA adopted women’s basketball as an official sport in 1982, UCLA looked nothing close to tentative or unsure of itself on such a pressure-packed stage — especially against an opponent far more familiar with such a spotlight. “I’m just so confident in their character, and that’s what determined how they played today,” UCLA coach Cori Close said on ESPN after the win. UCLA took a 30-15 lead midway through
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