In Televised Senior-Night Tilt, Terp Women's Hoops Host No. 2 Duke
2/21/2003 7:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
Feb. 21, 2003
Game 25
Monday, Feb. 24 ~ 7 p.m.
Terps (10-15, 4-10 ACC) vs. Duke (25-1, 13-0)
at Comcast Center (17,950): College Park, Md.
Live On TV: Fox Sports South, Sunshine Network
Taped Delay: Comcast (1:30 a.m. Monday night)
Live On the Radio: 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); WMUC 88.1 FM (College Park)
Live On the Internet: www.wmucsports.com
Maryland's Next Game:
Thursday, Feb. 27 ~ 7 p.m.
Terps Vs. North Carolina
At Carmichael Auditorium (10,000): Chapel Hill, N.C.
Live On the Radio: WMUC 88.1 FM (College Park)
Live On the Internet: www.wmucsports.com
The Terps (10-15, 4-10 ACC) continue their two-game home stint on Monday, Feb. 24, against defending ACC champion and No. 2 ranked Duke (25-1, 13-0 ACC). That game will begin at 7 p.m. and will be televised live on Fox Sports South and Sunshine Networks by Debbie Antonelli (color) and Beth Mowins (play-by-play). The Maryland vs. Duke game will be televised on a taped delay on Comcast at 1:30 a.m. the night of the game.
The Duke game will also be broadcast live by the Terrapin Radio Network's Johnny Holliday on the following stations: 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), and WTGM 960 AM (Salisbury). Maryland's student station, WMUC, will also broadcast Monday's game live on WMUC (88.1 FM College Park, Md.) and at www.wmucsports.com.
Next Up: North Carolina
Maryland rounds out its ACC regular season with an away contest at North Carolina on Feb. 27 at 7 p.m. ACC Tournament action in Greensboro, N.C., will be held from March 7-10.
Senior Night
The Terrapins will honor three seniors prior to Monday night's game. Terri Daniels (Ellicott City, Md.), Brie Jackson (Silver Spring, Md.), and Renneika Razor(New York, N.Y.) will all say goodbye to the homecrowd in a pregame ceremony to honor their four-year Terrapin careers.
The Maryland/Duke Series
Maryland leads Duke in the all-time series 31-20 despite losing their last five straight to the Blue Devils, including Jan. 23's 101-52 loss at Duke. 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. The memory still lives as one of senior Renneika Razor's fondest from her time at Maryland.
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. The last time Maryland beat Duke at home was on Jan. 30, 1998. The Terps won 54-53 that night.
UM Vs. Ranked Teams
When Maryland takes the floor vs. No. 2 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.
Going For Four...or More
Maryland's Brenda Frese has already given fans a number of positive signs towards a bright future of this rebuilding program and is on her way to another. Despite being 4-10 in the conference right now, Frese needs to lead Maryland to only one more conference win this season to surpass last year's ACC win total and one more to finish either tied with or better than the squad's record three out of the past four years. And that's with two ACC games remaining.
ACC Co-Player of the Week
Maryland's Renneika Razor split ACC Player of the Week honors this past week after leading the Terps with two 20-plus efforts in a close loss to Wake Forest and a crucial road win against third-place Florida State. She shared conference player of the week accolades with North Carolina's Coretta Brown.
Razor posted efforts of 20 and 24 this week to led the Terps to a 1-1 record, including the Terrapins' first win in Tallahassee since the 1996-97 season. Razor shot a combined .571 from the field over two games, and grabbed eight rebounds. The conference win, over the third-place Seminoles, marked UM's fourth ACC win of the season and second on the road, a feat Maryland has not accomplished since the 2000-01 season. For Razor, her 20-plus scoring efforts this week marked her seventh and eighth of the year and moved her into the No. 18 spot all-time on the Maryland scoring charts with 1,115 points.
Stolen!
Maryland's Renneika Razor leads the league in steals this season, averaging 3.3 per game, and edging Duke's Alana Beard. Beard, the 2002 ACC Player of the Year, was averaging 3.08 steals per game entering the week.
Razor has lead the competition in ACC games as well, averaging a 3.2 steals per game in conference games. Razor was 19th 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 3.3 per game this season. Her steals per game in ACC contests leads the conference. 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 262. Razor's total is also good enough for No. 21 all-time in ACC history.
Razor Cracks 1,000 Pts
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 and ended the afternoon with 1,001 career points. The senior guard currently has 1,138 career points, including 410 this season. Razor is 51 points away from the No. 17 spot all-time on UM's scoring chart where All-American Debbie Lytle (1980-83) now sits with 1,189.
Razor Approaches All-Time Rebounding Chart
Senior guard Renneika Razor has over 500 career rebounds, grabbing 573 to date, and needs eight more to crack the Top 15 all-time for that Maryland list. Bo Pearman (1981-84) and Jane Zivalich (1976-79) are currently tied for the No. 15 spot. Should Razor crack the list, she will be one of 10 Terps ever to etch her name on both the Top 20 scoring charts and the Top 15 rebounding charts in Maryland history.
Lighting It Up
Despite her freshman status, Chrissy Fisher (Rumson, N.J.) showed she has what it takes from beyond the arc when she exploded against North Carolina, hitting 6-7 from long range. Fisher's .857 for the game is a new Maryland school record. The previous mark was .667 and was held by five players.
Fisher followed it up with a 3-5 shooting performance behind the arc and 13 points in Maryland's overtime win vs. NC State on Feb. 1. Her two-game performance earned her ACC co-Rookie of the Week honors with North Carolina's La'Tangela Atkinson.
In the last eight games, Fisher has posted double digits in seven, including 20 points against Clemson, which tied her career high previously set against North Carolina.
Close Calls
Maryland has certainly made it an exciting year for fans, especialy in the second half of the ACC season. Overall this conference season, Maryland has had six games decided by five or less points, and has a 3-3 record in those tight games. Four of the Terps' last six games have been decided by small margins or victory, or defeat. The Terps' last three home contests have been decided by a total margin of nine points, and both resulted in two last-minute losses and an overtime thriller of a win vs. NC State.
Maryland's ACC Games Decided by Five or Less Points
J12 at Wake Forest * (Annex) W, 75-73
J27 NORTH CAROLINA * (-/9) L, 82-83
F1 NC STATE * W, 73-72 OT
F13 WAKE FOREST * L, 75-79
F16 at Florida State * W, 66-61
F20 VIRGINIA * L, 67-71
Going Up!
The beginning of Maryland's new era in women's basketball appears to be headed in the right direction. With an 10-14 mark and a 4-9 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.
A crowd of 5,078, the largest at a Maryland women's basketball game since Feb. 24, 1996, was in attendance for the Maryland/NC State game on Feb. 1. The Terps won 74-72 in overtime. The last time the Terrapins hosted a home crowd that large was when 5,750 people were in attendance when No. 9 Virginia came to town.
Maryland came home with a win from Florida State for the first time since the 1996-97 season. The 66-61 win was the first for the Terps since Jan. 15, 1997, when Maryland took home a 65-58 victory.
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:
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.
