#10 Maryland Heads to #16 Nebraska Saturday
1/1/2015 12:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
COLLEGE PARK, Md. - The 10th-ranked Maryland women's basketball team (10-2, 1-0 B1G) will travel to No. 16 Nebraska (10-2, 0-1) Saturday for a nationally-televised game at 4 p.m. ET at Pinnacle Bank Arena in Lincoln.
• The Terps-Huskers game will be shown nationwide on CBS and online at CBSSports.com.
• Live Stats will be available for Saturday's game. Live updates will also be posted to the Maryland Women's Basketball Twitter feed.
the latest
• Maryland outran a tough Ohio State squad, 87-78, Monday night in its first-ever Big Ten game. Brionna Jones tied her career-high 23 points and added a career-high 14 rebounds and four blocks. Shatori Walker-Kimbrough scored 18 points and Lexie Brown had 12, including 10 in the second half. Laurin Mincy picked up her second career double-double with 14 points and 11 rebounds, while Tierney Pfirman had 14 points off the bench. RECAP | STATS
• Brionna Jones was named to the Big Ten Player of the Week Honor Roll Tuesday for her performance in Monday's game.
• The Terrapins lead the Big Ten in scoring offense (84.9), scoring margin (+26.5), field goal percentage (49.9), rebounding margin (+11.8) and offensive rebounds (15.5). Maryland is second in the country in field goal percentage, behind only Connecticut.
• Maryland is ranked No. 10 in the USA Today Division I Coaches poll and No. 14 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. 4 Louisville, 76-73, on its home court in front of a sellout crowd to go to the Final Four.
Scouting the huskers
• The Huskers are coming off of a 72-69 loss at Minnesota Monday night. Rachel Theriot is leading Nebraska with 18.3 points per game and 5.3 assists per game.
• This is the third meeting between Maryland and Nebraska, with the Terps winning both previous matchups. Maryland won 76-64 in the NCAA Second Round in College Park in 2008, then won 91-70 in Lincoln in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge on Nov. 28, 2012. Tianna Hawkins and Alyssa Thomas combined for 46 points and 17 rebounds and Laurin Mincy added 16 points. RECAP | STATS
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 45-29 (.608) all-time against their 2014-15 Big Ten opponents. Maryland has won 10 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 13 years under Frese, the Terps are 13-4 (.765) against their new conference opponents. Frese is 25-10 (.714) all-time vs. Big Ten opponents, which includes her time at Minnesota (2001-02) and at Ball State (1999-01).
• Maryland is 6-2 (.750) 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.
Maryland in the rankings
• Maryland is one of the most consistent winning programs in the country. The Terrapins have been ranked in 83 straight Associated Press polls, dating back to the preseason poll of the 2010-11 season.
• Maryland has been ranked for 142 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 473-127 (.788) all time in College Park, dating back to the inaugural 1971-72 season. The Terps are also 180-32 (.849) at home under Brenda Frese, whose first season in College Park was the inaugural season of XFINITY Center.
• Maryland is 114-6 (.950) 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.).
fRESE COACHING TREE
• Head coach Brenda Frese has quite the extensive coaching tree, having been in the women's basketball collegiate circuit for over 16 years. She's worked with some of the best basketball minds in the country and has helped them achieve great things.
Marsha Frese (Head Coach at UMKC) - Assistant at Ball State, Minnesota, Maryland
Jeff Walz (Head Coach at Louisville) - Assistant at Minnesota, Maryland
Joanna Bernabei-McNamee (Head Coach at Pikesville) - Assistant at Minnesota, Maryland
Daron Park (Head Coach at Cal State-Fullerton) - Assistant at Maryland
Stephanie Stevens (Head Coach at Gallaudet) - Staff at Maryland
Danielle Hemerka (Assistant at American, Saint Francis) - Staff at Maryland
Rhet Wierzba (Assistant at Indiana) - Director of Operations at Maryland
Billy Fennelly (Assistant at Iowa State) - Staff at Maryland
Zach Kancher (Assistant at Miami) - Staff at Maryland
Laura Harper (Assistant at High Point) - Player at Maryland
Jade Perry (Assistant at Albright) - Player at Maryland
Mike Bowden (Video Director for Louisville Men) - Staff at Maryland
David Adkins (Player Development for Wizards) - Assistant at Maryland
Winston Gandy (Player Development Asst. for Wizards) - Staff at Maryland
Ryan Richman (Video Director for Wizards) - Intern at Maryland
Kyle Tarp (Director of Basketball Performance at MD) - Staff at Maryland
Chris Campbell (Head Coach at Sherwood High School) - Director of Operations at Maryland
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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