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College Park, Md.
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University of Utah
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Maryland
Utes Bow Out to Maryland on Terps' Floor
3/24/2009 12:00 AM | Women's Basketball
March 24, 2009
COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) -- With a victory in hand and their workload completed, Maryland seniors Marissa Coleman and Kristi Toliver walked off their home court for the last time as the top-seeded Terrapins closed out a 71-56 win over Utah on Tuesday night to advance to the round of the 16 in the NCAA tournament.
Coleman had 18 points and a career-high 18 rebounds, and Toliver deftly directed the offense and scored 17.
The Utes (23-10) had to play in an arena where Maryland had won 35 straight and before 10,065 fans intent upon seeing Toliver and Coleman go out in style.
Kalee Whipple scored 24 and Morgan Warburton had 17 for No. 9 seed Utah (23-10). The Utes, who advanced with a 60-30 rout of Villanova, couldn't come up with a similar defensive performance against the more talented Terrapins.
Maryland won the rebounding battle 54-24; the Utes had been outrebounded in only five games all season and ranked 12th in the country in rebound margin.
Coleman had more rebounds at halftime (12) than Utah (9). The Terrapins finished with more offensive rebounds (25) than Utah grabbed at both ends of the court.
"It's just pure and simple--their strength over us was just their physicality. We couldn't change that. We couldn't grow bigger. We couldn't grow heavier," Utah head coach Elaine Elliott said. "That was the difference in the two teams. We would have preferred that it wasn't a home game. ... (But) the differences in that game were apparent and that was something we wouldn't have overcome no matter where we played."
Although Maryland trailed by seven with just over 5 minutes elapsed, the Terrapins bounced back to go up 44-28 at the break.
The Utes never threatened to make a game of it in the second half.
In Maryland's opening 82-53 win over Dartmouth, the Terrapins scored the game's first eight points and never trailed. Utah got the early jump in this one, getting points from four different players and using 6-for-9 shooting to take a 15-8 lead.
Liles made two straight layups and Strickland sank a reverse layup off a no-look pass from Toliver to spark a 14-3 run that put the Terrapins up 22-18. Coleman hit three straight jumpers during the surge, and on the other end Utah missed eight of nine shots.
The lead swelled to 28-20, and after the Utes cut the margin in half, Toliver hit a jumper before layups by Strickland, Liles and Coleman started Maryland on a 12-0 run to end the half.
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