Jan. 22, 2003
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Game 18 - Thursday, Jan. 23 - 7 p.m.
Terps (8-9, 2-4 ACC) at No. 1 Duke (17-0, 5-0 ACC)
at Cameron Indoor Stadium (9,314): Durham, N.C.
Maryland's Next Game: Thursday, Jan. 27 - 7 p.m.
Terps vs. North Carolina
at Comcast Center (17,950): College Park, Md.
Live On Television: Sunshine Network: Live (Northern Florida). Fox Sports South: Live (Ala., Ga., Miss., NC, and SC). Tape Dalayed- Jan. 28, 1:30 p.m. (Ky. and Tenn.). Comcast Mid-Atlantic: Jan. 28, 1:30 A.M. (Entire Network)
Live On the Radio: 88.1 FM WMUC (College Park, Md.)
Live On the Internet: www.wmucsports.com
The Terrapins(8-9, 2-4 ACC) look to trip-up top-ranked Duke (17-0, 5-0 ACC) when they travel there on Thursday, Jan. 24, for a 7 p.m. match-up. The Blue Devils are one of two teams nationally that boast an undefeated record coming into this week. The Maryland/Duke game will be broadcast live as well on WMUC at 88.1 on your FM dial as well as at www.wmucsports.com. That game will start at 7 p.m. on Jan. 23 with the pregame show starting at 6:30 p.m. from Cameron Indoor Stadium. The Brenda Frese show airs at 6 p.m.
Maryland's Next Home Action
Maryland returns home Jan. 27 vs. North Carolina at 7 p.m. in the Comcast Center. That game will be one of two Terp home games that will be regionally televised this season. The Maryland/UNC game can be found live in Northern Florida on the Sunshine network and live on Fox Sports South in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina and South Carolina, and will be tape delayed on Comcast Mid-Atlantic and some Fox Sports affiliates in Kentucky and Tennessee. The Terps' game will be rebroadcast at 1:30 a.m. on Jan. 28 (the night after the game) on Comcast Mid-Atlantic's full network and at 1:30 p.m. on Fox Sports South's entire network on Jan. 28.
The Maryland/Duke Series
Maryland leads Duke in the all-time series 31-19 despite losing their last four straight to the Blue Devils. Maryland's last win over Duke came in Cameron Indoor Stadium on Feb. 3, 2000, when the Terps squeezed out a 63-62 win when Duke was ranked 12th nationally and the Terps were unranked. Maryland has beaten Duke six times when the Devils have been in the Top 25, including once when Duke was ranked in the Top 10. Maryland beat the Devils 83-73 on Jan. 9, 1988, at Cole Field House and went on to win its seventh ACC Championship that year.
Orchestrating Deja Vu
On Jan. 18, the Maryland men's team knocked-off undefeated Duke, 87-72, at the Comcast Center to topple the top-ranked Blue Devil men from their perch. Thursday night, the women's team is looking to do the same.
The Last Time No. 1 Fell Vs. The Terps
Maryland has experience knocking off the nation's No. 1 team, and has done it three other times in the program's history. The first was on March 17, 1978, when the Terps clipped No. 1 Tennessee, 75-69, in Cleveland, Miss. The win advanced Maryland one-step closer to the AIAW final four in Los Angeles.
The second time Maryland downed No. 1 was against ACC-foe Virginia on Jan. 15, 1992, at Virginia. Maryland left Charlottesville that year with the two-point 67-65 win, marking the only time in school history the Terps have taken down No. 1 on the road.
Maryland's last victory over the nation's No. 1 team was on Dec. 30, 1992, when the Terps defeated Tennessee again 77-72 at Cole Field House.
UM vs. Ranked Teams
When Maryland takes the floor vs. Duke, the Terrapins will be looking for their first win over a ranked team in two years. The last time Maryland beat a ranked team was on Feb. 25, 2001 vs. NC State in Cole Field House. The Wolfpack women were ranked 17th at the time and the win was one of four the Terps had over ranked teams that year.
Frese Meets No. 1 for First Time
When 2002 AP National Coach of the Year Brenda Frese meets No. 1 Duke Thursday, it will be her first go-around with the nation's top-ranked team in her four-year head coaching career. Frese is in her first year at the Terps' helm, and Thursday's meeting will also be her first career meeting vs. the Blue Devils.
Stolen!
Thursday's match-up features two of the nation's best thieves in Maryland's Renneika Razor (New York, N.Y.) and Duke's Alana Beard. Razor narrowly leads the league in steals this season, averaging 4.0 per game, and edging Beard by a slight margin. Beard is averaging 3.59 steals per game.
Razor is blowing away the competition in ACC games, however, averaging a fat 4.83 steals per game in conference games, more than 2.2 steals more than any other player in the conference. Beard is 12th on the list of conference games only, pilfering 3.2 passes per game.
Razor is sixth nationally in steals per game heading into this week.
Razor Climbs All-Time Lists
Senior Renneika Razor continues to climb the UM career charts for steals, averaging 4.0 per game this season. Here 4.8 steals per game in ACC contests leads the conference this season by more than 2.2 steals a game. Razor set her new career high for steals in the Florida State (1/16) loss with eight and is currently fourth on Maryland's all-time list in that category with 247. Razor's total is also good enough for No. 22 all-time in ACC history.
Razor Cracks 1,000-Point Mark
In Maryland's 69-58 loss at Virginia, Renneika Razor became the 20th player in Maryland history to break the 1,000 point plateau. She scored 16 points in the game, leading Maryland and ending the afternoon with 1,001 career points. The senior guard currently has 1,001 career points, including 273 this season. Razor is 51 points away from the No. 19 spot all-time on Maryland's scoring chart where Carla Holmes (1988-91) now sits with 1,052. Razor also has over 500 career rebounds, grabbing 527 to date, and needs 54 more to crack the Top 15 all-time for that Maryland list.
Oliver Bursts on the Scene
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, met all of her requirements and was eligible for the first time this season for the Gatorade Holiday Classic. She wasted no time making the impact her coaches said she would, averaging 15.0 ppg in her first eight outings, narrowly missing a double-double against Cleveland State with 16 points and nine rebounds and again at NC State with 19 points and nine rebounds. She is now posting 15.3 points per game in ACC play and grabbing a team-high 8.0 rebounds per game, including a career-high 16 at Virginia.
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 postseason tournament.
Heading in the Right Direction
The beginning of Maryland's new era in women's basketball appears to be headed in the right direction. With an 8-8 mark and a 2-3 conference record, Maryland has made the following strides this year en route to turning the corner back to national prominence.
Maryland won the first-ever game, men's or women's, in the Terps' new home, the Comcast Center. Senior Renneika Razor scored the first basket in the Comcast Center, en route to the Terps' 80-72 win over Loyola.
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 won its first ACC road game since Feb. 19, 2001, when UM grabbed a 69-53 win at Wake Forest. The Terrapins held on for ACC road win No. 1 in 10 tries. Last year's 0-8 effort on the conference road trail was the first time in program history the Terps finished without an ACC road win.
Welcome Home
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
Frese Takes the Helm
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.
Frese coached her 100th career game on Jan. 5 against Georgia Tech. Frese's Terps earned the 71-63 victory by leading the Jackets, who were on the verge of being ranked, from beginning to end.
