Women's Basketball Set To Host UMBC
12/20/2002 7:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
Dec. 20, 2002
GAME 9
Saturday, Dec. 21 ~ Noon: Terps vs. UMBC
at Comcast Center, Auxiliary Gym (1,500): College Park, Md.
Maryland's Next Games:
Gatorade Holiday Classic
at Knight Sports Complex (1,200), Miami, Fla.
Saturday, Dec. 28 ~ 5 p.m.: Terps vs. Cleveland State
Sunday, Dec. 29 ~ 5/7 p.m.
Terps vs. William & Mary/Miami
Terps Host UMBC Before Heading To Miami
Maryland's women's basketball team (4-4) looks to string together back-to-back wins this Saturday when they meet UMBC at the Comcast Center in the Auxiliary Gymnasium (due to commencement exercises in the main arena). The Terps are coming off a 66-43 win over Coppin State on Dec. 15. The UMBC game will be the only home game this year that will not be broadcast live or carried via live stats becuase of the venue change.
The UMBC game will be the final home game of the 2002 calendar year for Maryland, as the Terps' hit the road to the Gatorade Holiday Classic in Miami, Fla. on Dec. 28 and 29. Maryland then opens its ACC schedule vs. NC State in Raleigh on Jan. 2. That game begins at 7 p.m. Maryland returns home on Jan. 5 when they host Georgia Tech at 2 p.m. in the Comcast Center.
The UMBC Series
The Terrapins are a perfect 5-0 vs. UMBC in a series that began in the 1986-87 season. Maryland has defeated the Retrievers the past two years by scores of 56-44 (2000) and 60-48 (2001).
Maryland head coach Brenda Frese is 1-0 over MEAC schools after downing Coppin State 66-43 on Dec. 15.
A Season of Note, in More Than One Way
The 2002-03 season has been earmarked one to start a new era at Maryland and has yielded more than one memorable moment, bringing several new records, milestones, or career-high for the Terrapin team and its players. A few of note:
Maryland won the first-ever game, men's or women's, in the Terps' new home, the Comcast Center. Senior Renneika Razor (New York, N.Y.) scored the first basket in the Comcast Center, en route to the Terps' 80-72 win over the Loyola Greyhounds.
The Terps broke 100 points in a game for the first time since Dec. 28, 1993, when it downed UMES 102-31. Maryland's 104-point output was the highest since Dec. 1, 1992 vs. Drexel. That game was a 121-52 win for the Terps, and still stands as the school record for points in a game.
Maryland's Renneika Razor posted the 31st 30-point game ever in Terrapin history when she posted 32 in the Terps' game at Penn State. Razor went 6-for-9 from the field and 12-of-14 from the free throw line. The point total was also a new career-high for the senior.
Two Terrapin upperclassmen have also set new career highs. Senior Terri Daniels (Ellicott City, Md.) and redshirt-junior Vicki Brick (Timonium, Md.) both posted new career highs this year. Brick netted 20 points against Rider on Nov. 29, breaking her previous high of 19. Daniels tallied her new career high, 18 points, on the road vs. Niagara on Nov. 24. Her previous career high was 17 points.
The Beginning of a New Era at Maryland
Welcome to the Comcast Center... Maryland held the grand opening for the new home of women's and men's basketball on Oct. 10 when the university celebrated the official ribbon-cutting at the Comcast Center. New head coach Brenda Frese lined up with Maryland Governor Parris Glendening, University President C.D. "Dan" Mote, men's basketball bench boss Gary Williams, Athletics Director Deborah A. Yow, and many others to address the crowd of over 1,200 invitees to the grand opening.
The Comcast Center's seating capacity will be an outstanding 17,100 with the building including such amenities as:
* Eight-sided video scoreboard
* Weight Training and Conditioning Area and Sports Medicine/Training Area
* Auxiliary Gymnasium with room for two full courts that will serves as the competition site for gymnastics, women's volleyball and wresting.
* Media Relations Center
* Heritage Hall Multi-Purpose Room, which seats 400 for a reception and 200 for a sit-down dinner
* Academic Support and Career Development Center for Student-Athletes (7,000 square feet)
* Terps merchandise Store
Brenda Frese named third head coach ever for Maryland women... Maryland introduced 2002 AP National Coach of the Year Brenda Frese as its new head coach on April 2, 2002.
Frese brings a history of turning programs around with her to Maryland. Frese began her head coaching career at Ball State in 1999 and took a program that had been 66-169 in the past nine seasons to records of 16-13 and 19-9 and two NCAA tournaments before moving to Minnesota in 2001.
Frese orchestrated the best one-year turnaround in Big Ten history, taking a team that had gone 8-20 in 2000-01 and guiding them to a 22-8 record last season. Her turnaround heroics ended in the NCAA second round against the ACC's own North Carolina Tar Heels, but her amazing reversal of Minnesota's fortunes still earned Frese AP National Coach of the Year honors.
Maryland on TV
Maryland will be on television at least four times this season as part of the ACC women's basketball television schedule. The Terps' first televised game will be the Jan. 19 game at Virginia with a start time of 1 p.m. The remainder of the Terps' television schedule follows, including two home games which will afford Maryland fans throughout ACC country to take a peek inside the Comcast Center.
Maryland's Television Games
J19 at Virginia 1:00 p.m. TV
J27 NORTH CAROLINA 7:00 p.m. TV
F16 at Florida State 1:00 p.m. TV
F24 DUKE 7:00 p.m. TV
Terps' Radio Coverage
The Terrapins will be on the air almost every game this season, including five games that will be carried on the Terrapin Sports Network with play-by-play man Johnny Holliday, the "Voice of the Terps." The following games will be broadcast by the Terrapin Sports Network and can be found on these affiliates: WBAL 1090 AM (Baltimore), WTBO 1450 AM (Cumberland), WARK 1490 AM (Hagerstown), WMSG 1050 AM (Oakland), WTDK 107.1 FM (Cambridge/Easton), WQMR 101.1 FM (Ocean City), WTGM 960 AM (Salisbury), and WMAL 630 AM (Washington, D.C. -for the NC State game only).
Terrapin Sports Network Broadcasts
J19 at Virginia 1:00 p.m.
F1 NC STATE 7:00 p.m.
F7 at GA Tech 7:00 p.m.
F24 DUKE 7:00 p.m.
WMUC Broadcasts
WMUC, the student station for the University of Maryland, will carry the bulk of the Terps' on-air games. Maryland games, road and home, that are broadcast by WMUC can either be heard on 88.1 FM as well as on the web at www.wmuc.com and/or www.wmucsports.com. The schedule for those games is as follows:
Maryland's Remaining WMUC Games
Date Game Time Entity
J2 at NC State 7:00 p.m. Both
J5 GEORGIA TECH 2:00 p.m. Both
J9 CLEMSON 7:00 p.m. Sports
J12 at Wake Forest (Annex)
2:00 p.m. Both
J16 FLORIDA STATE 7:00 p.m. Sports
J19 at Virginia 1:00 p.m. Both
J23 at Duke 7:00 p.m. Both
J27 NORTH CAROLINA 7:00 p.m. Both
F1 NC STATE 7:00 p.m. Sports
F13 WAKE FOREST 7:00 p.m. Sports
F16 at Florida State 1:00 p.m. Both
F20 VIRGINIA 7:00 p.m. Both
F24 DUKE 7:00 p.m. Both
F27 at North Carolina 7:00 p.m. Both
Games broadcast on the "Sports" entity will only be available over the Internet at www.wmucsports.com. Games broadcast on "Both" will be available on www.wmucsports.com, www.wmucradio.com, and 88.1 FM in the College Park area.
