The UMBC Women's Basketball team will play its first home game in over a month when it hosts American on Sunday afternoon. Tip-off is scheduled for 3:30 pm (or 30 minutes after the Men's Basketball game concludes if it goes late) on ESPN+

Last Time Out:

• Laycee Drake (Hancock, N.Y.) scored 12 of her career-high 16 points in the fourth quarter, but the UMBC Women's Basketball team fell to host Mount St. Mary's, 63-57, last Saturday evening.
• The game concluded a five-game, month-long road trip for UMBC.
• Kiara Bell (Santa Rosa, Calif.) had 14 points and nine rebounds in the defeat.
• KK White (Indianapolis, In.) finished with 12 points and seven rebounds.
• Nia Staples (Cincinnati, Oh.) filled the stat sheet, scoring nine points, grabbing five rebounds and dishing out three assists

Scouting American:

• American was outscored 34-10 in the first half, and could not rally as it fell to visiting Marist, 59-41, last Saturday at Bender Arena.
• Riley DeRubbo had 11 points, two rebounds, two assists and a steal in the defeat.
• Lauren Stack lead the Eagles with 11 boards in only 29 minutes of play.
• Kayla Henning was American's second highest points getter for the second game in a row. Henning had eight points, three rebounds, two assists and a steal.
• Head Coach Tiffany Coll is a UMBC graduate who was a four-year letter winner on the Women's Basketball team.
• She played in 101 games for the Retrievers, scoring 344 points and grabbing 306 rebounds

All-Time Series:

• American leads the all-time series 14-6, and has won the previous four meetings.
• The Eagles have won seven of the past eight matchups dating back to 2006.
• Last year, UMBC ended a five-game road swing with a tough 55-47 loss at American on 12/1/21. The Retrievers held the host Eagles to a single 3-point field goal in 20 attempts, but could not overcome 25 turnovers at Bender Arena.
• Graduate student Onome-Juliet Esadah (Warri, Delta State, Nigeria) led the visitors with 14 points.