Dec. 6, 2002
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GAME 6
Saturday, Dec. 7 ~ 2 p.m.: Terps (3-2) at Richmond (4-1)
at Robins Center (9,171): Richmond, Va.
Maryland's Next Game:
Wednesday, Dec. 11 ~ 7 p.m.: Terps vs. Virginia Tech
at Comcast Center (17,950); College Park, Md.
Maryland's women's basketball team completes a two-game road stint this weekend at Richmond. The game begins at 2 p.m. on Dec. 7 in the Robins Center. The Terrapins return home on Dec. 11 to meet Virginia Tech, a team that is receiving votes in the ESPN/USA Today Coaches' poll. That game begins at 7 p.m. in the Comcast Center.
The Maryland vs. Richmond Series
Maryland holds a 4-1 lead in the all-time series with Richmond. The Terps have won the last four meetings, including a 79-70 decision last season at Cole Field House. Maryland has won the only meeting previously held in Richmond, a 74-56 victory on Nov. 29, 1991. As a head coach, Brenda Frese has never met the Spiders and holds a 1-1 record against the Atlantic-10 all-time with a win over Dayton before coming to Maryland and a loss to Rhode Island earlier this year.
Familiar Faces
A familiar face eyes the Terrapins from the opposite bench this weekend. Spiders' head coach Joanne Boyle is in her first year at the helm after spending the past nine years as an assistant coach at conference-foe Duke, making her more familiar with Maryland than most first-year head coaches might be.
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 hasn't disappointed yet, bringing more than one new record, milestone, 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.
