GREENSBORO, N.C. - For the second straight season a Maryland Terrapin has been named Atlantic Coast Conference Women's Basketball Player of the Year. Terp point guard Kristi Toliver earned the award on the heels of Crystal Langhorne's fantastic 2008 season, the league office announced today. The selections were made by a 45-member Blue Ribbon Panel.

Toliver, a 5-foot-7 senior from Harrisonburg, Va., ranks second among ACC scorers with 18.1 points per game and leads all conference players in assists per game at 5.1 Toliver also ranks second in the conference in 3-point field goal percentage and consistently stood out among the ACC's top five free-throw shooters as Maryland (25-4, 12-2) completed a stellar run through the conference for its first regular-season title since 1989.

Toliver's 1,939 career points rank third on Maryland's all-time scoring list. The Naismith Award candidate's 75 three-point field goals this season rank just three behind the school record she set last year, and she ranks among the ACC's top-five leaders in both career three-point field goals and assists.

"We're really excited that Kristi was named Player of the Year," Maryland head coach Brenda Frese said. "It's a tribute to her talent and the talent of her teammates who helped her achieve so much in her career. Having both Kristi and Marissa Coleman as All-ACC players, as well as the Freshman of the Year in Lynetta Kizer, it shows how gifted and unselfish our team is.

"We've come together as a team to win the ACC regular-season title with hopes of more team success to come."

Toliver becomes the third Terp to win the award following Langhorne (2008) and Vicky Bullett (1989). She was named an All-ACC First Team member earlier in the week, her second straight first-team accolade, and was selected as ACC Player of the Week on Feb. 9.

Toliver and the Terps will take on Wake Forest today in the ACC Quarterfinals at 3 p.m.