Feb. 8, 2003
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Game 22
Sunday, Feb. 9 ~ 7 p.m.: Terps (10-11, 3-7 ACC) at Clemson (11-10, 3-7 ACC)
at Littlejohn Coliseum (11,020): Clemson, S.C.
Radio: None
Maryland's Next Game:
Thursday, Feb. 13 ~ 7 p.m.: Terps vs. Wake Forest
at Comcast Center (17,950) : College Park, Md.
Live On the Radio: WMUC 88.1 FM (College Park)
Live On the Internet: www.wmucsports.com
The Maryland women's basketall team (10-11, 3-6 ACC) continutes its two-game road trip at Clemson this Sunday, Jan. 9 at 2 p.m. Both teams sit at 3-7 in the conference after Maryland lost a close one, 59-51, at Georgia Tech. Clemson played No. 2 Duke to a loss on Thursday night and is also looking for its fourth conference win this year. The Terps return home on Thursday, Feb. 13, to meet Wake Forest at 7 p.m. That game can be found at 88.1 FM (College Park) and on the Internet at www.wmucsports.com.
The Maryland/Clemson Series
Maryland leads Clemson 28-21 in the all-time series, winning three of the last five meetings and five of the last 10. Clemson beat Maryland 70-59 at the Comcast Center on Jan. 9 despite 23 points from senior guard Renneika Razor and another 22 from junior transfer Delvona Oliver (Euclid, Ohio). The Terps' last win at Clemson was a 68-62 win on Feb. 1, 2001.
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. Locked in a pack of four teams at 3-7 in the conference right now, Frese needs to lead Maryland to only one more conference win this season to tie last year's ACC win total and two more to finish either tied with or better than the squad's record three out of the past four years. And that's with six conference games remaining. Here is where the Terps' finished over the past five seasons, including 2002-03:
The Terps' Record Over The Past Five Years
Season Overall ACC
1998-99 6-21 3-13
1999-2000 16-15 5-11
2000-01 17-12 8-8
2001-02 13-17 4-12
2002-03 10-11 3-7
Stolen!
Maryland's Renneika Razor (New York, N.Y.) leads the league in steals this season, averaging 3.8 per game entering the week, and edging Duke's Alana Beard by 0.56 steals a game. Beard is averaging 3.24 steals per game.
Razor is blowing away the competition in ACC games, averaging a fat 4.11 steals per game in conference games, just under 2.0 steals more than any other player in the conference.
Razor was eighth nationally in steals per game heading into last week.
Razor Climbs All-Time Lists
Senior Renneika Razor continues to climb the UM career charts for steals, averaging 3.8 per game this season. Her 4.11 steals per game in ACC contests leads the conference this season by just under two steals per 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 256. Razor's total is also good enough for No. 22 all-time in ACC history.
Maryland's All-Time Steals Chart
1. 315 Debbie Lytle (1980-83)
2. 309 Sonia Chase (1995-98)
3. 293 Deanna Tate (1986-89)
4. 256 Renneika Razor (2000-present)
5. 241 Myra Waters (1979-82)
6. 236 Chequita Wood (1983-86)
7. 220 Vicky Bullett (1986-89)
8. 212 Lisa Brown (1985-88)
9. 190 Tiffany Brown (1997-00)
10. 188 Stephanie Cross (1995-98)
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 1,061 career points, including 333 this season. Razor is 52 points away from the No. 18 spot all-time on UM's scoring chart where Jane Zivalich (1976-79) now sits with 1,113. Razor also has over 550 career rebounds, grabbing 552 to date, and needs 29 more to crack the Top 15 all-time for that Maryland list.
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.
Fisher continued her strong performance, leading Maryland with 11 points in its loss at Georgia Tech.
Going Up!
The beginning of Maryland's new era in women's basketball appears to be headed in the right direction. With an 10-11 mark and a 3-7 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.
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.
