It was another Maryland women’s basketball season filled with winning. The Terps amassed 29 victories. They won the Big Ten regular-season championship and reached the conference title game. They piled up postseason honors.
But now it’s another Maryland women’s basketball season ending just a bit too early. The No. 3-seed Terps fell to No. 6-seed UCLA, 85-80, on Monday night in College Park. It’s Maryland’s third time in four years bowing out in the NCAA Tournament’s first weekend, and it’s also the third time in four years that the Terps have been eliminated by a lower-seeded team from the Pac-12.