After a week off since playing three road contests in five days, the UMBC Women's Basketball team returns to The Peake to host Binghamton on Saturday evening. Tip-off is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. with the game being broadcast on ESPN3.

Scouting the Retrievers:

• Playing their third road game in the span of five days, the UMBC women's basketball team (1-13, 0-4 AE) fell, 69-40, to UAlbany on mid-day on 1/19.
• Graduate student forward Janee'a Summers (Bound Brook, N.J.) led the Retrievers with 12 points and moved into thirteenth place on UMBC's all-time scoring list with 1,125 points.
• The Great Danes converted their first nine field goal attempts of the game, including all three shots from behind the arc, and led, 21-2, just 4:37 into the contest.
• The Retriever defense stiffened and only permitted four points the rest of the quarter, but the visitors trailed, 25-10 after 10 minutes.
• UAlbany led, 36-17, at intermission and 48-30 after 30 minutes.
• UMBC hit all 11 free throw attempts in the game to improve upon a solid 73.5 percent on the season.
• Graduate student guard Danae Marquez (Fresno, Calif.) added eight points and three steals.
• This is UMBC's longest losing streak (13) since also dropping 13 straight from 11/17/17-1/10/18

Scouting the Bearcats

• Binghamton (4-10, 0-4 AE) fell to Hartford (2-16, 2-5 AE), 59-57, in overtime on Wednesday night.
• It was the first home contest for the Bearcats since Jan. 8 as well as the fourth straight game in which they were able to dress only eight players.
• Junior forward Birna Benonysdottir led the Bearcats with 18 points to go along with a game-high two blocks. She entered the game ranked second in the conference with 16.3 points per game.
• Junior guard Denai Bowman netted 15 points and dished out three assists. She came into the contest ranked third in the America East with 13.5 points per game.
• Fellow junior guard Cassidy Roberts, meanwhile, turned in an 11-point, 10-rebound, six-assist performance. It marked the first double-double of her career.

All-Time Series

• Binghamton leads the all-time series 27-12
• The two teams split a pair of games at Binghamton last season
• The Retrievers took the first game, 57-54, on 12/27/20 before dropping a 65-60 decision the following day
• The win snapped a six game losing streak to the Bearcats and was the first UMBC win in Vestal since 1/28/15 (five games)