The UMBC Women's Basketball team hits the road to face New Hampshire in a critical America East contest on Sunday. Tip-off is scheduled for noon, and fans can watch all the action on ESPN3. The game on Saturday has been postponed due to COVID-19 issues within the UNH program.
Scouting the Retrievers:
- The UMBC Women's basketball team put up a scrappy defensive effort, but fell, 51-41, to visiting UAlbany on Wednesday night.
- The Retrievers recorded a season-high 13 steals and scored 11 points off UAlbany's 16 turnovers.
- Junior Keelah Dixon (Boston, Mass.) continued her solid scoring, recording a game-high 16 points. She was coming off a 17-point effort versus Binghamton on Saturday and scored in double figures for the sixth time on the season.
- Graduate student Jatarrikah Settle (Frederick, Md.) added 10 points and five steals for the Retrievers.
Scouting the Wildcats
- New Hampshire has had its last three games postponed and last played on 1/28, a 73-60 loss at Stony Brook
- Junior Brooke Kane (Derry, N.H.) matched a career high with 14 points
- UNH (4-15, 1-7 America East) led by as many as five, 37-32, in the third quarter before Stony Brook (17-2, 8-1 AE) rallied for its eighth straight victory
- Kane shot 4-for-6 from the field, 3-for-4 from 3-point distance and 3-for-4 from the free throw line to pace the Wildcats
- She tied junior Helena Delaruelle (Enghien-les-Bains, France) with a team-leading six rebounds.
- Senior Sophia Widmeyer (Dartmouth, Nova Scotia) and freshman Talia Davis (Dedham, Mass.) scored 12 points apiece, and sophomore Adara Groman (Hopkinton, Mass.) chipped in with 11 points.
All-Time Series
- UNH leads the all-time series, 19-16, and has won seven of the last nine matchups
- UMBC swept the season series in 2019, but the Wildcats returned the favor with a season sweep in 2020
- The two teams did not meet last season
