Megan Grant Sets NCAA Record With 38th Home Run

megan grant set the NCAA single-season home run record Saturday, going deep for the 38th time in UCLA’s Big Ten championship game against Nebraska. The senior slugger’s blast was also UCLA’s 182nd homer of the season, adding one more jolt to a team that has spent the last week trading blows with Oklahoma.

Grant Reaches 38 At UCLA

Grant’s 38th homer broke a record that had stood since 1995, when Lauren Espinoza of Arizona held the mark. She did it in conference tournament play, with UCLA already deep into a run that has turned team home runs into a season-long race.

The new total lifted Grant past the previous NCAA single-season standard and gave UCLA another piece of power production in a championship setting. For the Bruins, the swing arrived with the season already defined by home-run volume, and it gave them their 182nd long ball of 2026.

UCLA And Oklahoma Trade Surges

That chase has been tight. UCLA and Oklahoma were tied at 173 team home runs after UCLA hit four against Oregon in the final game of the regular season, and Oklahoma had opened the Big Ten tournament stretch with an early exit that left it at 174.

UCLA then out-homered Oklahoma 9-1 during conference tournament action last week, pushing the Bruins ahead before Grant added the record-breaker against Nebraska. The gap now sits at 182-174, a six-homer edge built across the tournament rather than in one isolated game.

Nebraska Ends On Grant’s Swing

Grant’s home run did more than rewrite an individual record. It came in the same game that capped UCLA’s latest power run and left the Bruins with the season’s defining number still moving upward, while Oklahoma’s mark stayed fixed at 174 after its exit.

The story now sits on two numbers: 38 for Grant and 182 for UCLA. One is the NCAA standard for a player in a season, and the other shows how far the Bruins have pushed the team race while the tournament has narrowed the calendar.