The UMBC women’s basketball team just could not get much going against Boston U in the first round game of the America East Conference Tournament. The team shot just 32.1% and just 13% from three-point range and could never get into a rhythm on offense. Carlee Cassidy led the team with 18 points and had [...]

Senior guard Carlee Cassidy made five three’s in her 18 points performance against Boston U. She also had six assists and five rebounds. [Corey Johns- TRW] In a place the women’s basketball team has never found success before, they bounced back from a miserable three-game losing streak in a big way with a 65-63 victory [...]

In three conference games sophomore center Topé Obajolu has doubled her non-conference averages in points and rebounds. [Corey Johns- TRW] After scoring just 21 points in the first half, four highly touted sophomores combined for 36 of the team’s 41 second half points as UMBC beat Albany 62-57 to even their overall record to 8-8 [...]

Carlee Cassidy recorded her first career double-double against the Black Bears. [Corey Johns- TRW] It is very rare to see a victory when only five players manage to score in a game, but for the UMBC women’s basketball team those five players outscored the Maine Black Bears, 61-52, for their first conference victory. Carlee Cassidy [...]

Brandon Wright Senior Staff Writer On Sunday, the women’s basketball team finished their six game road trip but their first appearance in 2010 did not go as hopped as they suffered a 74-44 defeat to Virginia Tech, the finial non-conference opponent of the season. UMBC’s record no stands at 6-7 as they return home for [...]

Dan Levin Staff Writer The 4-4 UMBC women’s basketball team traveled to the Reitz Arena for a match up with the 3-5 Loyola Greyhounds. UMBC was leading by five with fewer than five minutes left in the first half, but two big runs by Loyola led the Greyhounds to an 81-74 victory. Michelle Kurowski led [...]

It was a sloppy game for both teams but the women’s basketball team made more mistakes and fell to Coppin State by one points in a 55-54 battle. With just eight seconds remaining two-time America East Conference scoring champion Carlee Cassidy went up for a game winning dunk but the ball just rimmed out. Coppin [...]

Zach Seidel Senior Staff Writer Michelle Kurowski scored 29 points and the UMBC defense forced 23 turnovers as the Retrievers held on late to defeat Bucknell 68-63 Sunday in Lewisberg, Pennsylvania for their second consecutive road victory while only playing with only nine players. “Even though Kurowski had 29 tonight it was still a team [...]

By Corey Johns On Friday Carlee Cassidy broke an over two-decade old UMBC women’s basketball record for most points in a season with a 10-point performance. That game gave her 613 points, breaking Tammy McCarthy’s record of 609 set in the 1985-86 season. Her effort was not enough; UMBC dropped the conference tournament opener to [...]