Reese, Owusu Lead No. 8 Maryland Women Past Miami

COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) — Angel Reese had a career-high 26 points and 15 rebounds, Ashley Owusu scored 22 and No. 8 Maryland defeated Miami 82-74 connected Thursday night.

Reese recorded her 5th double-double of the play arsenic the Terrapins (7-2) extended the nation’s longest location winning streak to 29 games and snapped a two-game slide.

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“I was portion of our nonaccomplishment the past game, truthful I consciousness similar I didn’t play my champion crippled and I didn’t lend everything I could due to the fact that I was successful foul occupation and I consciousness similar I was undisciplined wrong the team,” Reese said. “Being disciplined tonight, I had lone 3 fouls, which is bully for me. I usually person more, but it conscionable being disciplined and learning from that and coming retired hungry.”

Maryland took the pb for bully with 1:40 remaining erstwhile Reese made a layup portion getting fouled. She missed the escaped throw, but Faith Masonius collected the rebound and passed it retired to Katie Benzan, who connected connected a 3-pointer to marque it 77-72.

“That 3 was huge,” manager Brenda Frese said. “It gave america a small spot of breathing country to beryllium capable to separate. It was a large play.”

Kelsey Marshall scored 24 points for the Hurricanes (4-3), who person dropped 3 successful a row.

Miami, which had forced astatine slightest 20 turnovers successful 4 consecutive games, hassled Maryland into 16 giveaways. But it couldn’t flooded the Terps’ sizeable size advantage. Maryland outrebounded the Hurricanes 48-22 (including 21 discourtesy rebounds to Miami’s 15 antiaircraft rebounds) and held a 26-7 vantage successful second-chance points.

“Our guards should not pb america successful rebounding, but they did,” Miami manager Katie Meier said. “Our bigs were successful there, but I thought Maryland was relentless to the violative glass.”

The beardown decorativeness prevented Maryland from suffering its archetypal three-game losing streak since February 2018. The Terps haven’t dropped 3 consecutive nonconference games since 2002-03, Frese’s archetypal season.

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The Terps played without Benzan and Masonius due to the fact that of illnesses past week and mislaid to top-10 opponents N.C. State and Stanford. Diamond Miller besides missed those losses and did not play Thursday. The archetypal squad all-Big Ten prime from a twelvemonth agone sat retired her 3rd crippled successful a enactment and has missed each but 2 games connected the year.

Neither squad created meaningful separation until the last minute. Maryland’s 28-21 pb successful the mediate of the 2nd 4th was the largest for either squad earlier the break, but Miami rallied to forge a 36-36 necktie astatine the half.

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While the Terps inactive aren’t astatine afloat strength, their seven-player rotation was capable to gut retired a triumph against a persistent Miami squad that dropped a two-point determination to apt Big Ten contender Indiana past week.

BRINGING THE FIRE

Maryland committed 9 turnovers successful the archetypal fractional and struggled to support tabs connected Miami astatine the defence end. It led Frese to person a “come-to-Jesus meeting” astatine halftime aft trying to let her squad to benignant things retired connected their own.

“I emotion the response,” Frese said. “It shouldn’t instrumentality your caput manager having to occurrence you up. I’m consenting to bash it if that’s what’s needed, but it was a terrific effect by the players due to the fact that they could person gone 1 of 2 ways. I thought we were getting outworked and outhustled successful the archetypal half.”

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