Site: Alexander Memorial Coliseum (10,000)
Radio: None
TV: FOX SportsSouth regional telecast.
COLLEGE PARK, Md. - Maryland travels to Georgia Tech this week to face the Yellow Jackets and conclude this season's first trip through the Atlantic Coast Conference. Thursday's game is carried live on FOX SportsSouth. Tipoff is 7 p.m.
The Terps travel to Atlanta where they hope to continue the momentum begun with a 94-76 win over Florida State on Sunday. Maryland earned its first ACC victory of the season as freshman Ginji Perry (Hyattsville, Md.) poured in a career-high 27 points and the Terrapins shot 63 percent from the field. Maryland led 50-25 at the break and coasted before its largest home crowd of the season, 2,622. The win earned head coach Chris Weller her 450th career victory.
Against the Jackets, the storyline is one of Freshmen vs. Freshman. Maryland brings a host of talented youngsters - six on the roster and four regulars - to Georgia Tech who boasts perhaps the ACC's most impressive newcomer to date in Neisha Butler.
RECORDS
Maryland is 3-13 overall and 1-6 in the ACC following its 94-76 win over Florida State. Georgia Tech enters the week at 9-7 overall and 2-5 in the ACC. The Yellow Jackets host state-rival Georgia on Monday.
NATIONAL RANKINGS
The Terps play 10 games this season against teams currently ranked in national top 25 polls. Maryland plays 13 against teams at least receiving votes. Last week's rankings:
AP (Jan. 11) ESPN/USA Today (Jan. 11)
7. North Carolina 6. North Carolina
12. Duke 12. Clemson
15. Rutgers 13. Rutgers
16. Clemson 16. Duke
20. Penn State 20. Penn State
21. Virginia 23. Virginia
Others: NC State Others: NC State
COACHES
Maryland's Chris Weller (Maryland 66) has guided her alma mater to a national championship game and three Final Four appearances. Now in her 24th season, she has engineered an unprecedented eight ACC championships while compiling a 450-233 (.659) overall record. She is 162-115 (.585) in the Atlantic Coast Conference. In 1995, she became just the fifth coach in women's college basketball history to earn at least 400 victories at the same school. Three years earlier, her Terps were No. 1-ranked for a month which led to her naming as the 1992 Naismith and USBWA national coach of the year.
Weller is 30-8 lifetime against Georgia Tech, and 16-6 vs. Agnus Berenato. Georgia Tech's Agnus Berenato (Mount St. Mary's 80) is 213-203 in her 15th season as a college head coach. She is 153-148 in her 11th season with the Yellow Jackets, and 53-107 in ACC games. She guided Tech to an NCAA Tournament appearance in 1993, and the National Women's Invitational Tournament championship in 1992.
SERIES HISTORY
Maryland and Georgia Tech have met 38 times overall, dating to the opening game of the 1979-80 campaign. Maryland is 30-8 against the Yellow Jackets including three in a row. The Terrapins won last year's meeting at Alexander Memorial Coliseum, 68-57, after dropping back-to-back road efforts in 1996 and 1997.
NEXT GAMES
Maryland hosts Clemson in a return to Cole Field House on Thursday, Jan. 28. Maryland appears on ACC regional television games on three consecutive Mondays beginning Feb. 1 at Duke.
RADIO/TV SCHEDULE
Seventeen Maryland women's basketball games are carried on live radio this season between the Maryland/Learfield Network with WBAL (1090-AM) in Baltimore as the flagship station, and campus radio station WMUC (650-AM and 88.1-FM).
The Terps appear on four regionally televised games during the ACC season beginning with a Jan. 21 date at Georgia Tech. Subsequent dates include Maryland at Duke on Feb. 1, Virginia at Maryland on Feb. 8, and Maryland at NC State on Feb. 15.
Remaining games on the Terrapin radio/TV broadcast schedule:
Jan. 21 at Georgia Tech FOXSS-TV
Jan. 28 Clemson WMUC
Feb. 1 at Duke RSN-TV
Feb. 3 Morgan State WMUC
Feb. 8 Virginia WMUC/RSN-TV
Feb. 11 North Carolina WMUC
Feb. 15 at NC State RSN-TV
Feb. 21 Georgia Tech WMUC
FOXSS-TV denotes FOX Sports South
RSN-TV denotes Home Team Sports, FOX Sports South and Sunshine Network.
TERP TICKETS
Tickets for Terrapin women's basketball games are available by calling the Terp ticket office at 301-314-7070 or 800-462-TERP. Tickets for all home games are $5 for adults and $3 for youth 18 and under.
TERP PROMOTIONS
Information or additional group tickets may be obtained by calling the Maryland sports marketing office at 301- 314-5252.
Maryland's Jan. 28 game vs. Clemson is CYO Night. Youngsters from Catholic Youth Organization basketball leagues from Baltimore and D.C. areas will be in attendance. AAU teams and teams from local schools will be in attendance when the Terps host Virginia on Feb. 8. Special group rates are available for all teams and guests from local and regional AAU affiliations or schools. Also that night, an exhibition contest will take place at halftime featuring teams competing in the NIKE 3-for-All. The NIKE event is a national competition, with local competitors featured in a halftime exhibition during the Maryland- Virginia game. Regional competition for the NIKE 3-for-All takes place that week at sites around College Park.
The North Carolina game on Feb. 11 honors National Women in Sport Week. Schools around the ACC invite their fans to Bring a Girl to a Game during the annual week that promotes women in sports. The Maryland-North Carolina game is Bring a Girl to a Game Night.
TERRAPIN FANPHONE
Information on Maryland athletics and a recap of every Maryland men's and women's basketball game can be obtained by calling the Terrapin Fanphone at 301-314-TERP.
MARYLAND (3-13, 1-6 ACC)
N14 UNC Greensboro L 45-63
N17 at Loyola (Md.) L 43-50
N20 at Howard L 47-65
N24 Hampton L 57-76
D2 Western Michigan L 55-64
D5 * at Clemson (25/24) L 49-89
D10 at Penn State (20/23) L 44-79
D13 * Wake Forest L 47-65
D22 Rutgers (15/13) L 61-81
D28 # Coppin State W 82-63
D29 # Richmond W 72-59
J2 * Duke (17/19) L 61-90
J8 * at Virginia (22/22) L 63-69
J10 * at North Carolina (6/6) L 58-87
J14 * NC State L 45-73
J17 * Florida State W 94-76
J21 * at Georgia Tech 7:00 p.m.
J28 * Clemson (12/10) 7:30 p.m.
F1 * at Duke (13/17) 7:00 p.m.
F3 Morgan State 7:30 p.m.
F6 * at Wake Forest 2:00 p.m.
F8 * Virginia (22/22) 7:00 p.m.
F11 * North Carolina (6/6) 7:30 p.m.
F15 * at NC State 7:00 p.m.
F18 * at Florida State 7:00 p.m.
F21 * Georgia Tech 2:00 p.m.
F26- at ACC Tournament (Independence
M1 Arena, Charlotte, N.C.)
* ACC game
# TERRAPIN CLASSIC (College Park, Md.)
(AP/ESPN-USA Today)
1998-99 ACC Standings
ACC Overall
Teams W L Pct. W L Pct.
Duke 7 0 1.000 15 4 .789
No. Carolina 5 1 .833 18 2 .900
Virginia 5 1 .833 11 6 .647
Clemson 4 3 .571 14 3 .823
NC State 3 4 .429 9 7 .563
Wake Forest 2 5 .286 6 11 .353
Georgia Tech 2 5 .285 9 7 .563
Maryland 1 6 .143 3 13 .188
Florida St. 1 6 .143 6 10 .375
MONDAY, JAN. 18
