In a calendar week, Terrapins women’s basketball guard Shatori Walker-Kimbrough experienced the double-edged sword that is being a big-time scorer in college.

Walker-Kimbrough set a program record with 71 points in a two-game stretch entering Monday’s tilt with No. 7 Ohio State. So the Terps traveled to Columbus, Ohio, coming off wins over two teams near the top of the Big Ten standings.

But when the Buckeyes snapped the Terps’ nine-game winning streak with a 94-86 win, Walker-Kimbrough’s string of historic performances broke, too. She finished with 14 points, third most on the team, but made just six of her 18 field-goal attempts and committed five turnovers as the Buckeyes seized control of the Big Ten standings.

“The price you have to pay as a shooter is sometimes you do everything right and it just doesn’t fall,” guard Kristen Confroy said of Walker-Kimbrough’s play. “But obviously coming off two hot games like that, it’s hard to swallow when your shot just doesn’t want to go in.”

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Despite Walker-Kimbrough’s lackluster shooting performance, both Confroy and center Malina Howard praised her for getting other teammates involved offensively and impacting the game in a variety of ways. Walker-Kimbrough secured her highest rebounding total (seven) since Jan. 14 against Michigan to go along with three assists and three steals.

And even when Walker-Kimbrough’s shots kept bouncing off the rim, her confidence never wavered.

“Shatori is a great player, and great players kind of understand that there is a little bit of give-and-take in the game of basketball,” Confroy said. “Every shot she took she thought was going in, and I think that’s the mentality that you have to have.”

Walker-Kimbrough, who entered the night shooting nearly 60 percent from the beyond the arc, missed a 3-pointer on the Terps’ opening possession. Another missed long ball followed about a minute later. One of the most efficient backcourt players in the country started the game 1-for-6.

At that point, Walker-Kimbrough said she should have realized that she was settling for open shots on the perimeter. Looking back on the Terps’ third game in seven days in a phone interview Tuesday afternoon, Walker-Kimbrough said, “I almost can’t rely on my jump shots like that.”

Instead of launching mid-range jumpers, even if they were open, Walker-Kimbrough said she should have been more aggressive on the offensive end. After going 15 of 16 from the charity stripe over the past two contests, she split her only two free-throw attempts Monday night.

“Start attacking more, cause then that would open it up for everybody else,” Walker-Kimbrough said. “If I attack and they sink in, I have kick-outs. And they don’t, then I have layups.”

In the Terps’ three losses this season — twice to the Buckeyes and once to No. 1 Connecticut — Walker-Kimbrough is averaging 15.3 shots but has gotten to the line a combined six times. The 55.7 percent shooter on the season has also shot 39 percent (18-for-46) in those top-10 matchups.

Those are outliers in her overall production this season, though, which is why Walker-Kimbrough’s teammates don’t want anything about her game to change.

“Every night, you can’t make every single shot,” Howard said. “She’s got to stay true to her and keep doing her and doing what she does.”