Without two of its best players available because of injury, No. 8 Maryland women’s basketball struggled to keep pace with No. 1 UCLA.

McDaniel, who hurt her knee in last week’s win against No. 24 Minnesota, has also been a key contributor to Maryland’s success this season. She averaged 10.6 points, 2.4 assists and 2.1 rebounds per game off the bench.

Maryland is going into a key stretch of its conference season with games against No. 12 Ohio State and top-ranked UCLA this week.

In a 89-51 loss to Texas that equaled the third worst of Brenda Frese’s tenure as coach, shorthanded Maryland loses Shyanne Sellers to a knee injury.

The Terps suffered their third straight loss, all to ranked teams, in an 82-67 defeat to the Bruins, who got 33 points from Betts.

Maryland women’s basketball’s Bri McDaniel, a key piece of the team’s rotation, will miss the rest of the season with a torn ACL.

Maryland lost reserve guard Bri McDaniel for the remainder of the season with a torn ACL in her right knee, the team announced Monday. The junior suffered the injury last Tuesday against Minnesota at the end of the first quarter when she went for a layup but fell awkwardly and had to be carried off the court.

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Interior scoring powered the No. 1 Bruins to an early lead that was never relinquished, handing No. 8 Maryland its third consecutive loss, 82-67, to cap its four-game stretch against ranked opponents. UCLA (20-0, 8-0 Big Ten) out-scored the Terps by 18 points in the paint.

There are six weeks remaining in the NCAA women’s basketball regular season and while a few teams are building a case for conference trophies, it’s still a toss-up across the power conferences. In week 12,