No. 14 Maryland women’s basketball defeats Towson, 81-70

A day after struggling a shock defeat to DePaul, No. 14 Maryland girls’s basketball defeated Towson, 81-70, Saturday on the Fort Myers Tip-Off.

There have been some acquainted faces on the Tigers’ bench on the Suncoast Credit score Union Enviornment. Its head coach, Laura Harper, helped lead the Terps to the 2006 Nationwide Championship beneath Brenda Frese. Harper is in her first season answerable for the Tigers and is joined by former Maryland video coordinator Joe Glowacki, who spent six seasons on coach Brenda Frese’s employees.

Frese inserted Shyanne Sellers into the beginning lineup instead of Lavender Briggs, who made simply 24 % of her pictures and averaged 4.2 factors per recreation this season.

The Florida switch, who averaged over 19 factors in her ultimate season with the Gators, missed her first two pictures of the sport and dedicated an early turnover. She completed the sport scoreless on 0-for-5 taking pictures from the sector in 21 minutes of play.

Sellers had a productive first half in her first begin of the season, logging two factors, three rebounds, 4 assists and two steals. Late within the body, Sellers grabbed a rebound, dodged her defender and floated a full-court cross to Diamond Miller, who laid in an uncontested two.

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Miller completed with a game-high 20 factors and 7 rebounds, whereas Sellers put up 14 factors.

Regardless of holding Towson scoreless for the opening two and a half minutes, Maryland went into the primary break up simply two, primarily as a result of 5 turnovers and 12 factors from the Tigers’ graduate guard Skye Williams, who completed with a team-high 19. However after giving the ball away 5 instances within the opening 5 minutes, the Terps misplaced possession six extra instances for a complete of 11 turnovers.

Religion Masonius, who opened the scoring for the Terps with a pair of pull-up jumpers, had 10 factors on the half and made two of her three three-point makes an attempt. The New Jersey native has now reached double-digit scoring in 4 of her final 5 matches and scored a season-high 14 factors.

Frese has used her freshman in a game-by-game foundation; on Friday in opposition to DePaul, Bri McDaniel, Gia Cooke and Ava Sciolla all entered the sport within the first quarter. Nonetheless, in opposition to Towson, a first-year didn’t debut till Mila Reynolds checked in with 7:31 left within the second.

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The second noticed Maryland go on a 6-0 run to begin the quarter solely to have Towson reply with an eight-point swing of its personal. However the Terps took a five-point lead on the half after closing on a 7-0 run the place the Tigers went virtually three minutes with no discipline objective and dedicated three turnovers.

One other scoring drought — Towson didn’t rating within the ultimate 3:30 of the third — helped Maryland to a soft eight-point benefit heading into the ultimate body.

Even after Miller picked up her fourth foul with 7:58 left within the fourth, the Terps’ lead stretched to fifteen factors. When Miller reentered at 2:44, she instantly bought a block and hit a two to keep up Maryland’s double-digit benefit.

India Johnston notched 17 factors and Kylie Kornegay-Lucas had 16, however made simply six of her 24 pictures because the Tigers hung round however by no means mounted a comeback in opposition to the Terps.