#8 Maryland Travels to George Washington
11/21/2014 12:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
COLLEGE PARK, Md. - The eighth-ranked Maryland women's basketball team (3-0) will travel across town to play at George Washington (2-1) Saturday at 3:30 p.m. at the Smith Center in Washington D.C.
• The Terps-Colonials game will be televised on CSN Plus. Click here for your channel number for CSN Plus.
• LiveStats will be available for the Terps-Colonials game. Live updates will also be posted to the Maryland Women's Basketball Twitter feed, so "Follow" to get updates sent straight to you.
the latest
• The Terrapins took care of business Wednesday with an 85-67 win over No. 25 South Florida at XFINITY Center. Sophomore Shatori Walker-Kimbrough scored a career-high 25 points, including 17 in the first half, while junior Malina Howard notched her first career double-double with 11 points and 11 rebounds. Sophomore Lexie Brown added 15 points, freshman Kristen Confroy had 11 and redshirt senior Laurin Mincy scored 10. RECAP | STATS
• Maryland is ranked No. 8 in the USA Today Division I Coaches poll and No. 9 in the latest Associated Press poll.
• Maryland was picked to win the Big Ten in its first year in the league by both the conference's head coaches and the conference media. Brown was named to the Preseason All-Big Ten Team by the media.
• Maryland ended the 2013-14 ranked No. 11 in the final Associated Press poll and No. 4 in the USA Today Top 25 Coaches poll. They made a remarkable run to the program's fourth NCAA Final Four and second under head coach Brenda Frese. Along the way, they handled top-seeded Tennessee, 73-62 and then beat No. 3 Louisville, 76-73, on its home court in front of a sellout crowd to go to the Final Four.
Scouting the colonials
• George Washington is 2-1 on the year after going 23-11 last year and advancing to the WNIT Third Round. Most recently, the Colonials beat Bowie State Wednesday, 88-45. Kelli Prange is leading George Washington with 16.3 points and 10.0 rebounds per game.
• The Terps are 4-1 all-time vs. George Washington. Maryland last won 87-51 last year on Nov. 19 in College Park. Walker-Kimbrough had 15 points and Brionna Jones scored 11 with seven rebounds. Brown dished seven assists. RECAP | STATS
Maryland in the rankings
• Maryland is one of the most consistent winning programs in the country. The Terrapins have been ranked in 78 straight Associated Press polls, dating back to the preseason poll of the 2010-11 season.
• Maryland has been ranked for 136 weeks in the last 10 seasons, with 118 of those weeks in the Associated Press top 10.
• The Terps appeared in the AP Top 5 on Dec. 12, 2011 for the first time since they ended the 2008-09 season ranked No. 3.
home sweet home
• The Terps are 469-127 (.787) all time in College Park, dating back to the inaugural 1971-72 season. The Terps are also 176-32 (.846) at home under Brenda Frese, whose first season in College Park was the inaugural season of XFINITY Center.
• The Terrapins are 111-6 (.949) all-time in non-conference games in XFINITY Center.
• The Terps own one of the longest home win streaks in NCAA history. They won 48 straight home games starting Nov. 9, 2007 with a 76-52 season-opening win over Princeton. The streak ended on Jan. 21, 2010 with an 80-77 loss to Miami.
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• Maryland is in its first season as a member of the Big Ten conference after playing in the ACC for 38 years. The Terrapins won 10 ACC Tournament titles and four ACC regular season titles.
• The Terps are 44-29 (.603) all-time against their 2014-15 Big Ten opponents. Maryland has won nine straight games against Big Ten teams, dating back to 2007. The last loss to a Big Ten opponent was when the third-ranked Terps fell at No. 4 Rutgers, 68-60, on Dec. 3, 2007.
• In the 12 years under Frese, the Terps are 12-4 (.750) against their new conference opponents. Frese is 24-10 (.706) all-time vs. Big Ten opponents, which includes her time at Minnesota (2001-02) and at Ball State (1999-01).
• Maryland is 5-2 (.714) against Big Ten teams at home in XFINITY Center. All are under Frese. Those two losses were against Penn State on Dec. 4, 2002 and against Ohio State in the NCAA Second Round in 2003.
overtime is our time
The phrase, “Overtime is our time!” became one of the catch phrases from the Terps' 2006 NCAA title run. That 2005-06 team went 6-0 in overtime games and won the national title in extra time vs. Duke.
• Maryland is 15-2 (.882) in overtime games in head coach Brenda Frese's 12 years.
• In the 2007-08 season, Frese was not on the sidelines for two of the Terps' overtime games. She missed a 97-86 double overtime loss at North Carolina on Jan. 26, 2008 and a 74-71 win at Virginia Tech on Feb. 4, 2008, due to her pregnancy with her sons.
• The Terps' only overtime loss with Frese on the sidelines was a 95-91 loss at Florida State on Jan. 16, 2005.
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