Top Teams Battle as #1 Maryland Hosts #2 UNC
2/19/2015 12:00:00 AM | Women's Lacrosse
COLLEGE PARK, Md. - The top two teams in the country battle when the No. 1 Maryland women's lacrosse team (1-0) hosts No. 2 North Carolina (3-0) Saturday at 11:30 a.m. at the Field Hockey & Lacrosse Complex.
• The Terrapins-Tar Heels game will be streamed on BTN Plus on BTN2Go.
• Live stats will be available, and game updates will be provided on the Maryland women's lacrosse Twitter feed.
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• The majority of Terrapins' home games will be streamed live on the BTN2Go app (BTN Plus), which is the official app of the Big Ten Network. Fans can access all Big Ten content on BTN Plus for $119.95 per year or a $14.95 monthly subscription.
• A Maryland School Pass for BTN Plus, which includes all Terrapin contests, home and away, is $79.95 per year or $9.95 for a monthly subscription.
• Students on University of Maryland campus have free access to BTN Plus.
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• North Carolina comes to College Park on a three-game win streak. The Tar Heels defeated High Point, 19-5, last Friday.
• UNC is currently averaging 16.33 goals per game on 36.7 shots per game.
• Alex Moore leads the Tar Heels with nine goals and 10 points. Brittney Coppa is close behind with eight goals and nine points. Aly Messinger, Marie McCool and Sydney Holman each have seven ground balls on the season and Sarah Schott leads the Tar Heels with 11 draw controls.
• North Carolina has a tandem of talented goalkeepers in sophomore Caylee Waters (2-0) and junior Megan Ward (1-0). The pair has limited opponents to 8.33 goals per game.
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• As former conference opponents, Maryland and North Carolina have a storied history. The Terrapins are 21-12 all-time against the Tar Heels.
• Maryland is 10-0 all-time at home against North Carolina.
• In the last two seasons, the Tar Heels are the only team to defeat the Terps. In 2013, Maryland fell in triple overtime of the national championship game to North Carolina.
• The Terrapins' lone loss in their 2014 championship season was to UNC in the regular season.
#1 terps down william & mary, 15-5, to open season
• The No. 1 Terps defeated William & Mary, 15-5, in Maryland's season opener last Sunday. RECAP | STATS
• Sophomore midfielder Zoe Stukenberg recorded six points on a hat trick and three assists while junior midfielder Taylor Cummings scored four goals and added nine draw controls, four caused turnovers and two ground balls.
• Megan Whittle and Kristen Lamon each scored twice, and Kelly McPartland, Brooke Griffin, Casey Pepperman and Shanna Brady also added goals.
STUKENBERG, WHITTLE EARN BIG TEN WEEKLY HONORS
• After helping the Terps to a 15-5 season-opening win, sophomore Zoe Stukenberg and freshman Megan Whittle received conference weekly honors.
• Stukenberg was named the Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week after posting three goals and three assists.
• Whittle was tabbed as the conference's Freshman of the Week after scoring a pair of goals.
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• Maryland is 83-2 in College Park under head coach Cathy Reese.
• The Terps have won all six games in which they have played an opponent ranked No. 1 or 2 at home in the past six seasons.
• The Terrapins are 222-16 in College Park dating back to 1990.
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• The Terrapins joined the Big Ten last summer, and the conference will play its inaugural season of lacrosse in 2015.
• Maryland's new conference opponents include Northwestern, Rutgers, Ohio State, Michigan and Penn State.
• Big Ten programs have won 24 national championships, more than any other conference. Maryland and Northwestern have combined to win 19 national titles, including nine of the last 10.
•After the top-ranked Terps, three other Big Ten squads were ranked in the most recent Inside Lacrosse Media Top 20, including No. 5 Northwestern, No. 10 Ohio State and No. 12 Penn State.
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• Maryland was unanimously chosen to win the Big Ten Championship in the conference coaches' preseason poll.
• Seniors Megan Douty, Brooke Griffin and Kelly McPartland were selected as Maryland's Players to Watch in 2015. All three were named preseason first team All-Americans by Inside Lacrosse.
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• The Terrapins are familiar to a number of Big Ten lacrosse coaches, as five of the six women's programs' head coaches are Maryland graduates.
• The Terps are led by Cathy Reese, a 1998 graduate. Reese's former teammates, Missy Doherty ('97) and Kelly Amonte Hiller ('96) lead the women's lacrosse programs at Penn State and Northwestern, respectively.
• Jennifer Ulehla, a 1991 alumna of Maryland, leads Michigan, while 2003 graduate Alexis Venechanos coaches Ohio State.
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