Women's Basketball Travels to New Hampshire for Saturday Matinee

The UMBC Women's Basketball Team (7-10, 4-2 AE) looks to continue its best America East start in over a decade when it travels to New Hampshire on Saturday. Tip-off is scheduled for 1 p.m. and fans can catch all the action on ESPN3.

Last Time Out:

UMBC graduate student forward Kiara Bell scored a career-best 24 points, leading five Retrievers in double figures, as a program record Midday Madness crowd of 3,027 witnessed a 76-59 victory over UMass Lowell at Chesapeake Arena.
The Retrievers have now won five of their last seven outings.
UMBC put the game out of reach by amassing a 28-point second quarter and taking a 47-20 lead into intermission.
The Retrievers converted 10-of-14 shots from the floor and all seven free throw attempts in the second stanza. Bell converted all four field goal attempts in the period and scored 13 points in the first half.
Sophomore guard Laycee Drake amassed 9 points, 4 rebounds, 3 steals and a pair of assists through the first 20 minutes. Her three steals occurred in a span of 34 seconds (9:07, 8:53 and 8:33) in the second quarter.
Bell converted 10-of-12 shots from the floor and tied teammates Drake and Ashia McCalla with a team-best seven rebounds. She has scored in double figures in eight of her last nine games and is averaging 14.2 points per game in that span.
Grad student guard KK White added 16 points, while Drake added a dozen. McCalla and graduate student guard Keelah Dixon each scored 10 points for the victors.

Scouting New Hampshire:

The New Hampshire women's basketball team fell to Bryant University, 65-44 on Monday afternoon from Chace Athletic Center.
Freshman Avery O'Connor (Dedham, Mass.) scored 15 points for the Wildcats.
The Wildcats' record fell to 5-12 (0-5 AE)
The team had a collective 90% free throw percentage.

All-Time Series:

New Hampshire leads the all-time series, 19-17, but UMBC took the last meeting
Last season, the UMBC women's basketball team outscored host UNH, 23-4, in the fourth quarter, wiping out a 14-point deficit and triumphing, 57-52, on 2/6/22 at Lundholm Gymnasium.
After being blanked versus UAlbany just days earlier, UMBC graduate student Janee'a Summers (Bound Brook, N.J.) bounced back in a huge way, leading the Retrievers with a career-high tying 25 points. She buried a career-best five treys in ten attempts.

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Players Mentioned

#23 Keelah Dixon: G; 5' 4"; Graduate Student

#2 Laycee Drake: G; 5' 6"; Sophomore

#1 Kiara Bell: F; 6' 2"; Graduate Student

#3 Ashia McCalla: G; 5' 7"; Graduate Student

#22 KK White: G; 6' 0"; Graduate Student

Players Mentioned

#23 Keelah Dixon
: 5' 4"; Graduate Student
: G

#2 Laycee Drake
: 5' 6"; Sophomore
: G

#1 Kiara Bell
: 6' 2"; Graduate Student
: F

#3 Ashia McCalla
: 5' 7"; Graduate Student
: G

#22 KK White
: 6' 0"; Graduate Student
: G