The UMBC Women's Basketball team begins its final homestand of the season when it welcomes Vermont to The Peake on Saturday afternoon. Tip-off is slated for 3:30 p.m. and fans can watch on ESPN3. 

Scouting the Retrievers:

• Playing without its leading scorer, the UMBC Women's Basketball team battled valiantly, but fell at first-place Stony Brook, 66-56.
• Graduate Student Onome-Juliet Esadah (Warri, Delta State, Nigeria) picked up her sixth double-double of the season, finishing with 12 points and 11 assists.
• UMBC leading scorer Janee'a Summers (Bound Brook, N.J.) missed the contest with a non-Covid related illness.

Scouting the Catamounts

• Junior guard Emma Utterback set a new career-high with 24 points and Vermont blocked a season-high 13 shots as the Catamounts swept the season series with New Hampshire defeating them 61-58 Wednesday evening at Patrick Gym
• UVM is now 13-1 this season when Delaney Richason reaches double figures in scoring.
• The Catamounts have won five of their last six games, and in those six games, Emma Utterback is averaging 13.5 points per game
• With the win, the Catamounts improved to 10-5 in conference play, posting double-digit wins in league for the first time since 2010.

All-Time Series

• Vermont leads the all-time series, 21-18
• The Catamounts have won the last three match-ups
• UVM defeated UMBC 69-36 in Burlington on 1/15/22.
• Last season, Vermont swept UMBC in a pair of neutral site games played in Albany in January, 2021 (73-56 & 65-54). Both teams would discontinue their season following the series.