Reese Scores 18, No. 8 Maryland Women Beat Rutgers 74-59

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December 5, 2021 astatine 5:08 pm

PISCATAWAY, N.J. (AP) — Angel Reese scored 18 points to pb No. 8 Maryland implicit Rutgers 74-59 connected Sunday.

Katie Benzan added 15 points, Chloe Bibby had 14 and Ashley Owusu 12 for Maryland (7-2, 1-0 Big Ten).

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Shug Dickson scored 18 points for Rutgers (4-6, 0-1), which has mislaid 5 straight. Lasha Petree had 11 and Tyia Singleton and Osh Brown each had 10.

Brown’s layup midway done the 4th fourth brought Rutgers wrong 56-52. The Terrapins scored the adjacent 7 points to enactment successful control.

Sayawni Lassiter responded with a straightaway 3 for Rutgers, but Maryland managed the timepiece successful the last 4 minutes. The Terrapins began to methodically bring the shot up the court, forcing the Scarlet Knights into fouling.

Mimi Collins, Reese, and Benzan each made 2 escaped throws successful the last 3:47.

The Terrapins led 38-23 astatine the extremity of a archetypal fractional successful which they ne'er trailed. Bibby opened the crippled with a layup 13 seconds into the archetypal quarter, and Maryland extended its pb 26-16 connected Reese’s layup 2 minutes into the 2nd quarter.

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BIG PICTURE

Maryland: The archetypal of 2 regular-season matchups betwixt the teams revealed the quality betwixt an experienced radical and an unexperienced one. Maryland entered the 2021-22 play by returning each 5 starters from 2020-21 and 10 players overall. The Terrapins did not panic erstwhile Rutgers outscored them 21-14 successful the 3rd 4th and chopped Maryland’s pb to 52-44.

Rutgers: The 2021-22 Scarlet Knights are apt going to beryllium a season-long enactment successful progress. That is what happens erstwhile 7 players transportation into the programme and Hall of Fame manager C. Vivian Stringer extends a permission of lack owed to COVID-19 precautions. So determination volition beryllium increasing pains arsenic the existent iteration of the Scarlet Knights larn however to play together. Such arsenic Sunday successful which Rutgers committed 19 turnovers.

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