COLLEGE PARK, Md. — For a moment, the Maryland women’s basketball team appeared to be the next candidate in Florida Gulf Coast’s Cinderella run in the NCAA Tournament.
But the No. 4 seed Terps righted the ship with 19 unanswered points spanning the second and third quarters to cruise to an 89-65 victory over the upset-minded and No. 12 seed Eagles Sunday afternoon in a second-round game before an announced 4,575 at Xfinity Center.
A trio of starters — junior shooting guard Diamond Miller (a game-high 24 points), sophomore power forward Angel Reese (21) and junior point guard Ashley Owusu (20) — eclipsed the 20-point mark to send Maryland (23-8) to its second consecutive Sweet 16 and 15th in program history. The team will meet either No. 1 seed and reigning national champion Stanford (30-2) or No. 8 seed Kansas (21-9) in the next round on either Friday or Saturday at a time to be announced at Spokane Arena in Spokane, Washington.
