Terps Run Away from Herd, 68-49

To be honest, I followed the game on GameTracker, when it worked, and through ESPN.com's scoreboard. This game was closer than expected and since I didn't see it I can't say whether it was all the travel recently or just pure boredom. We never trailed which is a good thing, but to go from the most points in the season to the fewest in one game is unsatisfactory. The win streak improves to 14, longest in both men's and women's hoops, and now the girls get over a week at home before they hit the road again.

Recap | Box Score |  Notes

Positives

Marissa and Kristi look to be emerging from their scoring slumps, which is great to see.

Defensive play. We held them to 30.6% shooting and only 49 points, 10 of which came in the final 3:35.

Rebounding. Another 50+ rebounding game, our third of the season.

Negatives

Harper - 3 fouls, 0 points? Where was she tonight?

Turnovers and Free throw shooting

Overall shooting. we should never go 7 minutes without a FG with the firepower we have. 37.5% isn't going to win many ACC games.

Ability to create turnovers. The articles says we pressed yet they only had 13 turnovers and 4 of them were off steals. I don't understand how we have 21 turnovers against teams that don't press, yet we press and nothing happens.

Up Next
UCSB on Saturday at 7 p.m. The Gauchos are 1-4 with all four losses coming against teams from the big conferences. They last played on the 26th so they will be well rested when they hit College Park.