LOS ANGELES — Yarden Garzon hit a go-ahead 3-pointer with 2:38 remaining and No. 12 Maryland women’s basketball defeated Southern California, 62-55, on Thursday night.
Addi Mack led the Terps with 12 points. Garzon finished with 10.
Isimenme Ozzy-Momodu added 10 points, nine rebounds and had a key block of Maria Samuels with 33 seconds remaining. After Garzon’s 3-pointer, the Terps got two offensive rebounds before Ozzy-Momodu scored for a 59-55 lead. Those were the only two field goals in the fourth for Maryland.
The Terps (17-2, 5-2 Big Ten) bounced back from an 89-76 loss to No. 19 Ohio State to earn their fourth win in five games.
Kara Dunn led USC with 21 points. Star freshman Jazzy Davidson shot 5 of 23, including 0-for-14 over the final three quarters, while picking up her third and fourth fouls in the fourth quarter. She scored 12 of the Trojans’ first 20 points, helping them to a 20-16 lead.
The Trojans (10-7, 2-4) have lost four in a row — more games than they dropped all of last season, their first in the Big Ten. They’re playing this season without JuJu Watkins, who is rehabbing a torn ACL suffered in the NCAA Tournament last March. Kennedy Smith has also been out lately with a lower leg injury.
Neither team led by more than eight points after the first quarter.
Both schools shot poorly from 3-point range, with the Trojans just 5 of 32 while Maryland was 4 of 16. But the Terps went went 22 of 26 from the free throw line.
Up next
Maryland: Visits No. 3 UCLA on Sunday.
USC: Hosts Purdue on Sunday.