Dec. 27, 2002
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Game 10 & 11
Gatorade Holiday Classic: Saturday, Dec. 28 ~ 5 p.m.
Terps (5-4) vs. Cleveland State (1-6)
at Knight Sports Complex (1,200); Miami, Fla.
Gatorade Holiday Classic: Sunday, Dec. 29 ~ 5/7 p.m.
Terps vs. William & Mary (3-4)/Miami (6-3)
at Knight Sports Complex (1,200); Miami, Fla.
Maryland's Next Game: Thursday, Jan. 2 ~ 7 p.m.
Terps vs. NC State
at Reynolds Coliseum (12,400); Raleigh, N.C.
Maryland Heads For Sunny Shores at Gatorade Holiday Classic
The Terrapin women's basketball team (5-4) hits the road to the Gatorade Holiday Classic in Miami, Fla. on Dec. 28 and 29. Maryland will meet Cleveland State (1-6) for game one on Dec. 28 at 5 p.m. The tournament continues the next day with the consolation game at 5 p.m. and the championship game at 7 p.m.
Maryland then opens its ACC schedule vs. NC State in Raleigh on Jan. 2. That game begins at 7 p.m. The Terps return home on Jan. 5 when they host Georgia Tech at 2 p.m. in the Comcast Center.
Maryland Vs. The Tourney Field
Maryland holds a 2-0 lead in the Cleveland State series, with the last meeting coming in the 1986-87 season. Maryland won that game, which was also played in the Miami Tournament, 92-49. The only other meeting was a 77-56 win at Cole Field House in the 1985-86 season. Terps' head coach Brenda Frese is 1-1 all-time vs. Cleveland State.
Maryland's series with Miami also sees the Terps with a 2-0 advantage. The Terps last meeting with Miami was in the 1992-93 season, and yielded a 67-57 win at Cole Field House. Maryland defeated Miami in their own tournament in the 1986-87 season, 84-64, in the only other meeting between the two. Brenda Frese met Miami just last year in Florida, capturing a win to bring a 1-0 record against the Canes into the tournament.
Maryland and William & Mary have met only one other time in series history. The Terps captured a 85-52 win in Cole Field House that game during the 1994-95 season. Frese has never met the Tribe.
Maryland boasts a 5-0 record vs. the field entering the Gatorade Holiday Classic.
Oliver Joins Terps
2002 AP National Coach of the Year Brenda Frese added her first recruit to the Terrapin roster this summer in 6-3 junior college transfer Delvona Oliver (Euclid, Ohio). Oliver, a center from Cincinnati State Technical and Community College, has now met all of her requirements and will be eligible for the first time this season for the Gatorade Holilday Classic.
"Delvona is going to have an immediate effect on the post presence for us with her experience," said Frese. "She'll be able to come in and have an impact for us this season."
Oliver earned second-team All-America recognition from the National Junior College Athletic Association and averaged 18.1 points, 10.5 rebounds and 2.5 blocks per game in the 2000-01 season. She earned most valuable player honors at the Ohio Community College Athletic Conference post season tournament.
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.
