Junior center Brionna Jones scored a career-high 28 points and added 11 assists but the No. 5 Maryland women’s basketball team fell, 94-86, to seventh-ranked Ohio State Monday night.
Jones led four Maryland players who recorded double digits, including 16 from Tierney Pfirman, 14 from Shatori Walker-Kimbrough and 13 from Kristen Confroy. Jones notched her 12th double-double of the season
Ohio State never trailed en route to sweeping the regular season series against the Terrapins (21-3, 10-2), who did not lose a game to a Big Ten opponent last season and won the conference regular season and tournament titles in their first year as members.
The Buckeyes (19-4, 11-1) took sole possession of first place in the Big Ten.
Ohio State opened up a 24-14 lead in the first eight minutes thanks mostly to hot shooting from Ameryst Alston, who had 11 points in the first quarter and all three of her 3-pointers.
Maryland committed nine turnovers in the first quarter, but had a 14-4 rebounding advantage and scored seven points off of Ohio State’s three turnovers.
Todd
This was a tired team last night and it showed in their (lack of) defensive effort and their decision making. They were playing their third game in six days and in the first two games of this stretch Frese had chopped the bench minutes to half or less than half of what they’d been leading up to that point.
They failed to get the ball inside OSU’s zone on multiple occasions in the first half when B. Jones was isolated in the low post and being guarded by 5’8″ Cait Craft deciding, instead to settle for jump shots.
The Terps defensive rotations were poor and slow and they left OSUs shooters unchallenged too often leading to the Buckeyes shooting 12-23 from beyond the arc.
A team like Maryland might be able to have 20+ turnovers and beat UMES but it’s not happening against the Ohio States of the women’s basketball world.
· 11/12/2019
jack
I’ve been browsing online more than 3 hours lately, but
I by no means found any interesting article like yours. It is
lovely worth enough for me. Personally, if all webmasters and bloggers made just right
content as you probably did, the net might be a
lot more helpful than ever before.
· 11/12/2019