USC women see skid reach 4 games with loss to No. 12 Maryland

LOS ANGELES — Kara Dunn walked into the postgame press conference with a bruise under her left eye, a wound emblematic of the effort that had taken place in the 40 minutes prior.

“I thought we played our asses off,” head coach Lindsay Gottlieb said, Dunn by her side. “There’s just no other option. No one wants to be in a situation where things are hard, but your only option is to figure it out and fight your way through it.”

The USC women’s basketball team frantically did all it...