#10 Maryland Set For #1 Notre Dame in Challenge
12/1/2014 12:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
COLLEGE PARK, Md. - The tenth-ranked Maryland women's basketball team (6-1) will travel to Fort Wayne, Ind. this week to play No. 1 Notre Dame (7-0) in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge. The Terps and the Irish will tip off at 7 p.m. ET at the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum.
This year's ACC/Big Ten Challenge will mark the eighth year of the event and Maryland is the only team to be 7-0 in Challenge play. Click here for the ACC/Big Ten Challenge program.
• Live Stats will be available for the Terps' game vs. Notre Dame. Live updates will also be posted to the Maryland Women's Basketball Twitter feed, so "Follow" to get updates sent straight to you.
•The Maryland-Notre Dame game will be streamed live online through ESPN3 at http://es.pn/1taJkC1.
the latest
• The Terrapins went 1-1 in the San Juan Shootout in Puerto Rico this weekend. They beat No. 23 James Madison, 80-64 Friday behind 23 points from Laurin Mincy. She scored 17 of her points in the second half to help seal the win. Lexie Brown added 13 points and Brionna Jones scored 10. RECAP | STATS
• Maryland's comeback attempt vs. Washington State fell short in Saturday's matchup, as the Terrapins fell 70-64. Jones led the Terps with a career-high 23 points. Mincy added 13 points, including 11 in the second half, but the Terrapins couldn't close the gap all the way. RECAP | STATS
• Mincy currently has 979 career points and needs 21 to become the 29th player in Maryland history to break 1,000 career points.
• Maryland is ranked No. 10 in the USA Today Division I Coaches poll and No. 15 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 irish
• Notre Dame is 7-0 to start the season after appearing in last year's NCAA Championship game. Jewell Loyd is leading the Irish with 20.3 points per game. Most recently, the Irish beat Kansas, 89-47 Sunday in Uncasville, Conn.
• This is the ninth all-time meeting between Maryland and Notre Dame, with the series tied 4-4. Last year, Maryland fell to the Irish 87-83 on Jan. 27 in College Park. They met again in the NCAA Final Four. The Irish took that matchup, 87-61. Brionna Jones led the Terps with 16 points, while Lexie Brown and Laurin Mincy each had 11. RECAP | STATS
Maryland in the rankings
• Maryland is one of the most consistent winning programs in the country. The Terrapins have been ranked in 79 straight Associated Press polls, dating back to the preseason poll of the 2010-11 season.
• Maryland has been ranked for 137 weeks in the last 10 seasons, with 119 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 470-127 (.787) all time in College Park, dating back to the inaugural 1971-72 season. The Terps are also 177-32 (.847) at home under Brenda Frese, whose first season in College Park was the inaugural season of XFINITY Center.
• The Terrapins are 112-6 (.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.
family ties
• Head coach Brenda Frese and her younger sister, Marsha, are the only two sister head coaches in Division I. Marsha is in her this year as head coach at UMKC and was an assistant under Brenda at Ball State, Minnesota and for two years at Maryland.
• Many Terrapins have NBA pedigree in their background. Lexie Brown's dad is 1991 NBA Slam Dunk Champion Dee Brown, who is currently an assistant with the Sacramento Kings.
• Aja Ellison's dad is 1989 No. 1 overall draft pick Pervis Ellison, who also won a national championship at Louisville. Her mother, Timi, ran track at Maryland.
• Lexie and Aja's dads played together with the Boston Celtics in the mid-1990s.
• Kiara Leslie's older brother, C.J., played at NC State from 2010-13 and now plays professionally in Korea.
• Malina Howard's younger sister, Marisa, is a freshman post player at Division II Goldey-Beacom.
• Brionna Jones' older brother, Jarred, plays at Loyola (Md.).
maryland in the b1g
• 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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