College Park, Md. – The visiting UMBC Retrievers had their six-game winning streak snapped after falling to the Maryland Terrapins, 80-64, on Thursday evening at the XFINITY Center.
The Retrievers trailed by just two points, 44-42, with 13:18 left in the contest but the Terrapins went on a 16-4 spurt midway through the stanza to take control of the game with 7:33 left.
UMBC (9-5) got a season-high 14 points apiece from graduate students
Jarvis Doles and
Craig Beaudion II, while freshman guard
Dion Brown added 10 points and nine rebounds.
First Half (How it Happened)
- UMBC took their first lead of the game at 11-9 after senior wing
Jacob Boonyasith scored on a driving layup at the 16:05 mark.
- Doles then followed with his second trey to make it 14-9 at the 14:15 mark. Doles (7 rebounds) scored 10 points during the stretch.
- The Retrievers took their largest lead of the game when Brown splashed a right-corner trifecta to make it 17-11 with 12:33 left.
- The hosts (10-3) answered with ten consecutive points to claim a 21-17 edge at the 8:46 mark. Junior guard Jahmir Young (18 points) scored five points during the spurt.
- UMBC trailed 29-20 with just over five minutes left in the half but went on a 7-1 run to trim the deficit to 30-27 at the 2:50 mark. Beaudion ignited the charge after finishing a fast-break layup, Boonyasith swished a trey, and graduate student forward
Tra'Von Fagan (8 points, 8 rebounds) completed a spectacular follow-up dunk.
- The Retrievers trailed just 33-30 at the break as they held the Terrapins to 1-of-14 from behind the arc and outrebounded the hosts by a 21-20 margin.
Second Half (How It Happened)
- UMBC fell behind 39-30 nearly three minutes into the stanza but fought their way back to 41-38 after Brown knocked down a 3-pointer from the corner at the 14:51 mark. Beaudion also connected from deep during the spurt.
- Trailing 44-38, graduate student
Colton Lawrence converted a reverse layup and junior guard
Matteo Picarelli made a pair of free throws to whittle the deficit to 44-42 at the 13:18 mark.
-The two-point deficit was as close as the Retrievers would get as the hosts went on a game-changing 16-4 run to take a 60-46 advantage at the 7:33 mark.
- Beaudion made a driving layup to bring the visitors within 61-53 with 6:16 left but the Terrapins used a 13-5 burst to put the game out of reach at 74-58 with two minutes left.
Game Notes
-UMBC shot 35.9 percent (23-of-64) overall and made 7-of-24 (29.2 percent) of their long-range attempts.
- Maryland shot 48.1 percent overall (26-of-54) and were 6-of-24 (25 percent) from distance.
-The Terrapins went 22-of-32 (68.8 percent) from the line while the Retrievers were 11-of-16 (68.8 percent).
-The Terps held a 38-36 edge on the boards and outscored UMBC by a 36-28 margin inside the paint.
-Turnovers were even at 17 apiece.
-UMBC had scored at least 70 points in ten straight contests entering tonight's contest.
- Donald Carey paced the hosts with 19 points and was 5-of-7 from deep.
Coach Ferry Quote
"I thought are guys competed and we played our butts of but it's really hard to win when you put your opponent on the line 32 times. If we could have played without fouling, I think we could have given ourselves a chance to win. I thought we got better tonight even though we lost this game. We didn't play as well as we have been of late but getting better is all that matters. We'll get back to work and get ready for Vermont to start our league play on Sunday."
Up Next
UMBC will open America East play against Vermont at "The Peake" on Sunday at 1:00 p.m.
