LOS ANGELES — Cori Close walked into Violet, a French cafe on Glendon Avenue, just a 15-minute walk from the UCLA campus in Westwood Village – diagonal glass windows angled above the seats within the bistro’s urban European architecture interior.

Across from the longtime Bruins coach sat Charlisse Leger-Walker, the sixth-year graduate student point guard about to start her first and final season playing on the Pauley Pavilion hardwood. There was a purpose in their meeting.

Close joked that when you’re the head coach, the players usually don’t want to spend time with you outside of essential team activities, opting to hang out with assistant coaches if player-coach time is on the table.

But with Leger-Walker, the experience she brings to the Bruins’ roster as the oldest player on the tea

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