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BURLINGTON, Vt. - The Vermont women's basketball team hosts Maine, its longest standing rival, on Wednesday at Patrick Gymnasium. Tipoff is set for 7 p.m. The game can be heard on WVMT-620 AM (online: SportsJuice.com) with Kevin Fitzgerald calling the action. The game can also be seen online for free in HD via CatamounTV.com.
The Catamounts have won two of their last three, but are coming off a 71-64 loss at UMBC on Saturday. Vermont stands at 5-20 overall and 2-11 in America East. Maine owns a record of 19-6 overall and is 11-1 in America East. The Black Bears have won 11 straight, including a 57-49 win over Stony Brook on Sunday.
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TICKETS & PROMOTIONS
Tickets can be purachsed online at UVMathletics.com, in person at the UVM Athletic Ticket Office in Patrick Gymnasium (M-F: 9 a.m.-5 p.m), via the phone at 802-656-4410, or in person one hour before tipoff in the Patrick Gymnasium Lobby ... Wednesday marks the women's basketball team's Rally Against Cancer/ Play 4 Kay game presented by Otter Creek Awnings and Vermont Custom Closets ... The team will be wearing special uniforms with pink accents.
LAST TIME OUT - UMBC 71, Vermont 64
Niki Taylor matched her career high and posted her 10th double-double with 23 points and 11 rebounds for Vermont, but the Catamounts dropped a 71-64 decision at the RAC ... UMBC's Taylor McCarley scored a game-high 31 points to lead the Retrievers to the victory ... McCarley stuffed the stat sheet, adding five rebounds, six assists and five steals ... UVM led 15-14 after a pair of free throws by Kylie Butler with 7:53 left in the first half, but UMBC answered with an 11-3 run to pull out to a 25-18 lead and went into the locker room ahead 31-24 ... The Retrievers, who went 24-for-32 from the foul line in the game, opened up a double-digit lead early in the second half ... Vermont cut the margin to five on a basket by Taylor with 11 minutes remaining in the game ... UMBC pushed back out to a 12-point lead and led 60-50 with just under two minutes remaining ... Vermont kept battling, climbing back within four on a three-point play by Taylor with 31 seconds left, but UMBC held off the Catamounts by making three of four free throws in the final 25 seconds to seal the victory.
ABOUT MAINE
Maine is 19-6 overall, 11-1 in America East and has won 11 straight ... The Black Bears are coming off a 57-49 win over Stony Brook on Sunday ... Sigi Koizar leads the team in scoring (14.6 ppg) and is grabbing 4.1 rebounds per game ... She also has 42 steals and 70 assists on the year ... Liz Wood is chipping in 14.1 points, a team-high 7.3 rebounds, 3.4 assists and 2.6 steals per game ... She posted Maine's first-ever triple-double with 11 points, 13 rebounds and 10 assists against UMass Lowell ... As a team, Maine is averaging 61.1 points per game, while giving up 53 points to opponents ... The Black Bears own the top scoring defense in the league (53 ppg) and are the lowest scoring team in the conference (59.1 ppg) ... The Black Bears are shooting 43.7 percent from the floor, 32.5 percent from 3-point range and 70.3 percent from the foul line ... Maine is being out rebounded 31.7 to 33.1 on the year.
THE SERIES
Wednesday marks the 79th meeting between the two teams ... Maine is Vermont's longest standing rival ... The two teams have met every season since 1975-76 ... The Black Bears own a 48-30 lead in the series ... Vermont had won 12 in a row, but Maine has won six of the last nine meetings, including four straight and a 74-46 win on January 22.
LAST TIME OUT - Maine 74, Vermont 46
Niki Taylor scored eight points and grabbed eight rebounds, including the 700th of her career, but Liz Wood poured in a career-high 30 points to lead Maine to a 74-46 victory in Bangor on Thursday ... Wood scored 21 points in the first half and finished the game with five 3-pointers ... Vermont held an early 7-4 lead at the 14:49 mark of the first half, but Maine responded with a 12-2 run, all 12 points from Wood to take a 16-9 lead midway through the half ... The Black Bears out scored Vermont 16-8 over the final 10 minutes and led 32-17 at the break ... Maine opened the second half with a 7-2 spurt to extend its lead to 20 ... UVM closed to within 13, but that's as close as the Catamounts could get the rest of the way.
WHO'S NEXT
Vermont has a bye this weekend and returns to action on February 26 versus UMass Lowell ... Tipoff is scheduled for 7 p.m. at Patrick Gymnasium ... Before the game, UVM will honors its senior class of Kayla Burchill, Emilie Cloutier, Niki Taylor and Tierra Shumpert ... The game can be heard on WVMT-620 AM (online: SportsJuice.com) with Kevin Fitzgerald calling the action and seen online for free in HD via CatamounTV.com.
