The UMBC Women's Basketball team plays the penultimate game of its month-long road trip when it heads to the Lone Star State to face Houston on Wednesday night. Tip-off is set for 8 p.m. EST, and fans can watch on ESPN+.

Last Time Out

• Laycee Drake scored a career-high 12 points, but host Temple outscored the UMBC Women's Basketball team 22-7 in the fourth quarter to escape with a 68-53 win on Saturday afternoon.
• UMBC fell to 2-5 on the season in the defeat
• Drake also dished out a career-best fi e assists and added five rebounds, two steals and a block.
• Ashia McCalla was the only other Retriever to reach double-figures, tallying 10 points on the day..

Scouting Houston

• The University of Houston women's basketball team fell 73-59 at Kansas State on Sunday inside Bramlage Coliseum.
• Houston (1-7) started furiously, making its first three shots of the game and first six of seven shots to open the contest.
• The hot start, on the back of a 52.9 percent shooting percentage from the field and the most first quarter points in a game this season, gave Houston a 20-17 lead through one quarter of play.
• The Wildcats' length held the Cougars to a sub-20 percentage from the field in the second and third quarters as they opened up a 55-37 lead through three periods
• Junior Laila Blair led Houston with 16 points, her seventh-straight game in double-digits, and second time leading the team in scoring this season.
• Even though the Cougars made more shots from the field than the Wildcats, 24-21, Kansas State (8-1) shot more than double the amount of free throw attempts as Houston in the game, 31-13, and made more than double as well, 26-7
• Blair leads the team in points per game (14.5) and assists per game (2.3)
• Tatyana Hill is the team leader in rebounds per game, averaging 9.1.