Without two of its best players available because of injury, No. 8 Maryland women’s basketball struggled to keep pace with No. 1 UCLA.
McDaniel, who hurt her knee in last week’s win against No. 24 Minnesota, has also been a key contributor to Maryland’s success this season. She averaged 10.6 points, 2.4 assists and 2.1 rebounds per game off the bench.
Maryland is going into a key stretch of its conference season with games against No. 12 Ohio State and top-ranked UCLA this week.
In a 89-51 loss to Texas that equaled the third worst of Brenda Frese’s tenure as coach, shorthanded Maryland loses Shyanne Sellers to a knee injury.
The Terps suffered their third straight loss, all to ranked teams, in an 82-67 defeat to the Bruins, who got 33 points from Betts.
Maryland women’s basketball’s Bri McDaniel, a key piece of the team’s rotation, will miss the rest of the season with a torn ACL.
Maryland lost reserve guard Bri McDaniel for the remainder of the season with a torn ACL in her right knee, the team announced Monday. The junior suffered the injury last Tuesday against Minnesota at the end of the first quarter when she went for a layup but fell awkwardly and had to be carried off the court.
Interior scoring powered the No. 1 Bruins to an early lead that was never relinquished, handing No. 8 Maryland its third consecutive loss, 82-67, to cap its four-game stretch against ranked opponents. UCLA (20-0, 8-0 Big Ten) out-scored the Terps by 18 points in the paint.
There are six weeks remaining in the NCAA women’s basketball regular season and while a few teams are building a case for conference trophies, it’s still a toss-up across the power conferences. In week 12,
One week after giving birth to her first child, Kim Caldwell plans to coach the University of Tennessee women’s basketball team Monday night in its SEC showdown with South Carolina, the defending NCAA champion.
Women's basketball teams from top-ranked colleges compete in the inaugural Coretta Scott King Classic in Newark, NJ, honoring the legacy of Dr. King's wife.
No. 8 Maryland women’s basketball fell to No. 1 UCLA on its home floor, 82-67, Sunday afternoon, making it three straight defeats against top-15 opponents. Here are three takeaways from the game. Containing UCLA’s 6-foot-7 star center Lauren Betts had to be at the focal point of Maryland’s game plan entering Sunday.