The UMBC Women's Basketball team looks to get back to its winning ways when it hosts UMass Lowell on Wednesday morning in the annual Midday Madness game. Special tip-off time is 11 a.m. and fans can catch all the action on ESPN+.

Last Time Out:

• Host Maine (8-8, 4-0 AE) used a massive second half to pull away from the visiting UMBC (6-10, 3-2 AE), 71-54, on Saturday afternoon. 
• Keelah Dixon (Boston, Mass.) finished with a team-high 17 points on four three-pointers, while Kiara Bell (Santa Rosa, Calif.) added 10 points.
• Ashia McCalla (Greenbelt, Md.), KK White (Indianapolis, In.) and Scoop Smith (Pemberton Township, N.J.) each added seven points in the defeat.
• The teams got off to a back-and-forth start, with several lead changes, but Maine eventually pulled ahead 18-13 with a minute left
• Paloma Iradier (Santander, Spain) hit a layup and Dixon followed with a late three to tie the game at 18 after the first quarter
• UMBC shot 8-13 from the field in the first quarter, with White and Dixon each tallying five points.
• The teams again continued to trade the lead in the second, UMBC took a brief 29-26 lead after McCalla scored three-straight points, but the Black Bears ended the half on a 9-3 run to take a 35-32 lead into the break
• McCalla lead UMBC with seven first half points
• Maine could not miss to start the second half, jumping out to a 48-40 lead midway through the quarter
• The lead continued to grow as the hosts shot 9-15 from the floor while holding the Retrievers to 3-13 shooting en route to a 54-42 lead heading into the final ten minutes.
• The Black Bears continued to pull away in the fourth, despite Dixon draining a trio of threes, outscoring UMBC 17-12 in the frame and 36-22 overall in the second half

Scouting UMass Lowell:

• The UMass Lowell women's basketball team (1-14, 0-5 AE) fell to the Binghamton Bearcats (10-8, 3-2 AE) in an action-packed conference matchup on Saturday afternoon.
• Senior Jaliena Sanchez (Springfield, Mass.) scored a career-high 24 points to lead all scorers and added four assists and one steal.
• Sophomore Ivory Finley (Minneapolis, Minn.) added 13 points and three assists while fellow sophomore Amaya Dowdy (Woonsocket, R.I.) scored 10 points and had a team-high nine rebounds.
• Sophomore Tasha Lima (Roslindale, Mass.) scored her first collegiate points, totaling four on the afternoon and added in two steals.

All-Time Series

• UMass Lowell leads the all-time series, 10-8, and has won three-straight
• Last season, the two teams played a pair of tight contests, with UML taking a 76-72 decision in Massachusetts and then rallying for a 70-68 win at The Peake on 2/12
• In the second meeting, Graduate Student Janee'a Summers (Bound Brook, N.J.) scored a career-high tying 25 points for the second time in three games, but a late 18-2 run helped visiting UMass Lowell to a 70-68 victory.
• UMBC shot a 2021-22 NCAA single-game best 10-of-12 from three (83.3%), with Danae Marquez (Fresno, Calif.) going 4-for-4 from deep.
• Onome-Juliet Esadah (Warri, Delta State, Nigeria) had 12 points and 12 rebounds off the bench for the Retrievers, while Jatarrikah Settle (Frederick, Md.) finished with 10 points