After playing for the first time in 25 days, the UMBC Women's Basketball team (1-10, 0-1 AE) begins a grueling three games in five days road trip at Vermont on Saturday. Tip-off is slated for 1 p.m. and fans can watch on ESPN3.

Scouting the Retrievers:

• UMBC returned to the court for the first time in 25 days and gave a scrappy effort before falling, 72-58, to first-place NJIT.
• Graduate student forward Janee'a Summers (Bound Brook, N.J.) led all scorers with 21 points and added nine rebounds.
• Sophomore guard Alexia Nelson (Brooklyn, N.Y.) scored a career-high 16 points on 7-of-11 shooting and added four steals.
• UMBC outrebounded NJIT, 34-33, as Summers and Onome-Juliet Esadah (Warri, Delta State, Nigeria) contributed nine rebounds apiece.
• Despite the long layoff, the Retrievers only committed a dozen turnovers, six below their previous per-game average.
• Summers became the 14th Retriever to surpass the 1,100-point mark with 1,103.
• This is UMBC's longest losing streak (10) since dropping 13 straight from 11/17/17-1/10/18

Scouting the Catamounts

• Stony Brook built an 11-point lead with 2:43 to go in the fourth quarter and held on for a 65-59 win as Vermont pushed the preseason favorite in America East Wednesday night at Island Federal Arena.
• First year guard Catherine Gilwee set a new career-high with 15 points for the Catamounts Wednesday. She also matched a career-high with three steals
• Bella Vito was the Catamounts leading rebounder, she grabbed a career-high six boards in just 14 minutes of game action
• Josie Larkins scored 12 points Wednesday night, she is now just four shy of 1,000 in her Catamount career.

All-Time Series

• Vermont leads the all-time series 20-18 and has won five of the six matchups. 
• The two teams met for a pair of neutral court contests at UAlbany last year, which UVM swept (73-56 and 65-54). Those would be the last games UMBC played before discontinuing its season
• UMBC's last victory in the series came at home in 2020 when they defeated the Catamounts, 54-47.