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UMBC freshman Dion Brown didn’t make his debut until Dec. 10 as he worked his way back from an injury, but since then he’s averaging 8.5 points per game off the bench and adding another option to the Retrievers’ dynamic offense.
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UMBC men’s basketball coach Jim Ferry and Coppin State guard Sam Sessoms, who spent the 2020-21 season together at Penn State, recently reconnected on the hardwood … and Ferry says Sessoms has a chance to lead the country in scoring in 2022-23.
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UMBC men’s basketball senior Yaw Obeng-Mensah recently chatted with PressBox about growing up in Canada, being one of the Retrievers’ few returners and more.
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UMBC women’s basketball graduate student Kiara Bell recently talked with PressBox about how she became interested in basketball, the player she looks up to and more.
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Longwood men’s basketball coach Griff Aldrich, an assistant at UMBC under Ryan Odom, is going dancing once again, and he credits his players’ unselfishness, which he calls “very similar to that UMBC team.”
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Szymon Wojcik has scored double-digit points four times in UMBC’s past five games, and the Retrievers will need another big-time effort out of Wojcik when they take on Vermont for the America East title March 12.
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In Jim Ferry’s first year at UMBC, the Retrievers have occasionally flashed the style Ferry envisions for the program long term. “The phrase I use all the time is just let the ball find the shot,” Ferry said. “We have guys that can all score, so we want … pace and tempo.”
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2021 marks PressBox’s fifth annual Best Of edition celebrating the top people, performances and moments of the year.
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2021 marks PressBox’s fifth annual Best Of edition celebrating the top people, performances and moments of the year.
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First-year UMBC men’s basketball coach Jim Ferry has some challenges ahead of him as the Retrievers enter the 2021-22 season. “We’re building this program, I wouldn’t say from scratch, but whenever there’s a coaching change there’s change, there’s adjustment, different style,” Ferry said.
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