COLLEGE PARK, Md. - No. 12/10 Maryland (12-2, 3-0 B1G) will travel to Minneapolis this weekend to take on No. 23/RV Minnesota (14-1, 3-0) Sunday at 3 p.m. ET at Williams Arena.
• The Maryland-Minnesota game will be televised around the world on ESPN2, the Watch ESPN app and online on WatchESPN.
• Live stats will be available and live updates will be posted to the Maryland women's basketball Twitter feed.
the latest
• Maryland wore down Purdue Thursday night en route to an 88-64 victory at XFINITY Center. Brionna Jones scored 16 points with a career-high 17 rebounds. Shatori Walker-Kimbrough added 18 points and Laurin Mincy had 16. Lexie Brown scored 10 points and Tierney Pfirman pulled down nine rebounds with six assists. Chloe Pavlech came off the bench in the first half and added nine quick points. The Terrapins beat the Boilermakers on the boards, 49-28 and had 23 offensive boards to Purdue's seven. RECAP | STATS
• Walker-Kimbrough was named to the Big Ten Player of the Week Honor Roll Monday for her performance in Saturday's win at Nebraska.
• The Terps lead the Big Ten in scoring (84.4), scoring margin (+26.4), field goal percentage (.497), rebounding margin (+12.6) and offensive rebounds (15.9). Walker-Kimbrough and Mincy are Nos. 3 and 4 in the league in free throw percentage and Jones is No. 2 with her field goal percentage of .607. Maryland is top five in the country in scoring, scoring margin and rebounding margin, and is No. 3 in the nation in field goal percentage, behind only No. 2 Connecticut and No. 1 South Carolina.
• Maryland is ranked No. 10 in the USA Today Division I Coaches poll and No. 12 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 gophers
• Minnesota is 14-1 overall and 3-0 in Big Ten play. The Gophers have won 10 straight games since the end of November. The Gophers are led by Amanda Zahui B., who is the current Big Ten Player of the Week. She and Kelley Shae are averaging 15.9 points per game and Zahui is also averaging 11.5 rebounds per game.
• This is the third all-time meeting between Maryland and Minnesota, with the Terrapins winning both of the previous matchups. Most recently, the Terps won 66-45 in the Big Ten/ACC Challenge in College Park on Dec. 3, 2009. The other meeting was an 86-74 win for the Terps in College Park in 1980.
• Head coach Brenda Frese was the head coach at Minnesota during the 2001-02 season. After they went 8-20 the year before, she led the Gophers to a record of 22-8 overall, 11-5 in Big Ten play and an NCAA Tournament berth. She was named Associated Press National Coach of the Year at the end of the season.
maryland in the b1g
• Maryland is in its first season as a member of the Big Ten conference after playing in the ACC for 37 years. The Terrapins won 10 ACC Tournament titles and four ACC regular season titles.
• The Terps are 47-29 (.618) all-time against their 2014-15 Big Ten opponents. Maryland has won 12 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 15-4 (.789) against their new conference opponents. Frese is 27-10 (.730) all-time vs. Big Ten opponents, which includes her time at Minnesota (2001-02) and at Ball State (1999-01).
• Maryland is 7-2 (.778) 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 84 straight Associated Press polls, dating back to the preseason poll of the 2010-11 season.
• Maryland has been ranked for 143 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 474-127 (.789) all time in College Park, dating back to the inaugural 1971-72 season. The Terps are also 181-32 (.850) 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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