The Virginia women's basketball team defeated UMES in a close game, showcasing their resilience and improving performance in the second half.
The final exam break is over, and the women hosted UMES in the first of their two last tune-up games before the season begins: away to Notre Dame just before the New Year. How did the women do? Let’s take a look. A win is a win is a win. This was a scrappy UMES team that took 8-4 and 14-10 leads early in the first quarter, and the game was all knotted up at the half 33-33.
Despite only having two players over six feet, UMES has the 54th best rebounding differential in the country and pounded the Cavs on the offensive boards. For the game, UMES took 11 more shots than Virginia. Ashanti Lynch scored all 16 of her points in the first half, and this team was gunning for an upset. Virginia’s second half response was their best of the year. Third frame is the charm. In Virginia’s six wins, the team has “won” the third quarter every time. Their record when they are outscored is 1-5. Virginia won the battle in the third, outscoring UMES 22-13 and then outscoring them in the 4th 25-18. It helped that the three-ball starting falling. After going a dismal 2/10 from deep in the first half, the Hoos responded by going 6/13 in the second half. Coach Agugua-Hamilton’s rotations are still in flux, and it’s late in the season to still be tinkering with lineups. Part of this is due to injury. While Paris Clark returned this game and Edessa Noyan is still shaking off the after-effects of missing six games, Yonta Vaughn missed the game. Coach Mox has a three-year track record of going 10-deep in her rotations, but Casey Valenti-Paea, Payton Dunbar and RyLee Grays totaled just seven scrubs' minutes as Mox rode her top seven, in, as I said, an uncharacteristic manner. Dunbar got her first career start and then promptly vanished. There's not a lot of time left to figure this out. For years, free throw shooting has been a strength of this team, but this season the women have been as unreliable as the men from the charity stripe. Virginia went 20/24 from the line (83
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