The UMBC Women's Basketball team (6-12, 2-4 America East) concludes its three-game road swing on Saturday afternoon at America East for NJIT. 
 
Tip-off from the Joel & Diane Bloom Wellness and Events Center (WEC) is slated for 3 p.m. on ESPN+.
 
Last time out, graduate student guard Trinity Palacio scored a team-high 11 points, but host New Hampshire used a 33-9 run over the final 17 minutes to defeat UMBC , 56-37, last Saturday afternoon.
 
The hosts pulled away by out-scoring the Retrievers, 15-2, in the fourth.
 
Grad student forward Anna Blount tallied nine points, while classmate guard Jaliena Sanchez added six points and a game-high four assists.
 
Blount is tenth in America East with 11.6 points per game. Sanchez is ninth in the circuit with 1.5 steals per outing. 
 
Scouting NJIT:

• The Highlanders (8-11, 0-6 AE) won eight of 13 non-conference contests, but are still looking for their first league triumph of the campaign. 
• NJIT just finished a three-road road swing with a 73-64 setback at Bryant on Jan. 25. Sophomore guard Alejandra Zuniga led NJIT with 18 points, followed by junior forward Trinity Wiliams, who added 12 points on 5-of-5 shooting from the field.
• Zuniga is sixth in the conference in scoring average (15.3 ppg), the lone Highlander to average in double figures. 
• NJIT is second in America East in free throw percentage (.740). 

 
All-Time Series:

• UMBC leads the all-time series, 4-2, after sweeping three match-ups last season
• In the last meeting, fourth-seeded UMBC team advanced to the 2023 Jersey Mike's America East Semifinals with an 82-71 victory over the No.5 seeded NJIT Highlanders on March 1
• It was the first ever home victory in an America East Quarterfinal for the Retrievers
• On February 8th in Newark, Keelah Dixon (Boston, Mass.) had a team-best 17 points, Ashia McCalla (Greenbelt, Md.) had 13 and KK White (Indianapolis, In.) added 11 as the Retrievers won a 72-69 thriller
• In the first meeting of the season on January 25, Laycee Drake hit a 23-foot, one-footed jumper with 0.2 seconds left to give host UMBC a thrilling 61-60 victory 

 
Up Next 
 
UMBC returns home and will entertain Bryant at The Peake on Thursday, Feb. 1. Tip-off time is scheduled for 6:00 p.m.