COLLEGE PARK, MD — The 16th-ranked Maryland women's basketball team rolled to a 107-85 win over Minnesota Friday at the XFINITY Center. All 10 available Terrapins (11-3, 2-1 B1G) scored as Maryland put up its highest scoring game this season. 

Diamond Miller led the Terrapins with 22 points and five steals. Shyanne Sellers added 19 points and Abby Meyers scored 17. Lavender Briggs scored 14 points - her most as a Terrapin. 

The Terrapins' defense forced 23 Minnesota turnovers and outscored the Gophers 30-2 in points off of those turnovers. Maryland had just six turnovers on the day with 21 assists. 

Maryland outscored Minnesota 35-22 in the third quarter, led by 10 points from Briggs. The Terps forced seven turnovers that quarter and scored 12 points off them.


Brenda Frese's Take

"It was just a great start. You saw a tremendous reset from us coming out of the holiday break, coming back really fresh and I thought we set the tone from the tip. Minnesota's young players are really impressive and are great scorers. The fact that we were able to dictate on the defensive end, our press and our turnovers that we were able to force, 30-2, was a huge piece in the game for us." 

1,000 Point Update

• Miller continues to stand 30th in career scoring at Maryland with 1,276. She is chasing Belinda Pearman at No. 29, who totaled 1,284 from 1981-84. 
• Meyers now has 1,147 points in her career with 947 in her three seasons of action at Princeton before joining the Terps this season. 
• Lavender Briggs, who surpassed the 1,000-point mark in Maryland's game against Notre Dame, now has 1,043 overall. She netted 961 at Florida. 
• Pinzan is chasing 1,000 points as she has 973, for her career. She had 916 points at South Florida.
• Brinae Alexander is also approaching the 1,000-point threshold as she has 971 career points, with 841 coming at Vanderbilt. 

Double-Figure Update

• With 22 points, Miller reached double-figures for the 12th time in 13 games played this season. She's recorded 10 points or more 67 times in her career.  
• Sellers' 19 point-performance was her ninth consecutive game scoring 10 or more. She has accomplished that in 12 of 14 games this season and 25 times overall.
• Meyers hit double-digit scoring for the 12th time this season and 64th in her career, notching 17 points. 

Series History

• The Terps continue to dominate the series against the Golden Gophers, now holding a 14-1 advantage including seven consecutive victories. 
• Maryland head coach Brenda Frese was the head coach at Minnesota for one season (2001-02) prior to coming to College Park. She led the Gophers to a record of 24-8 and the NCAA Tournament Second Round and was named AP National Coach of the Year. Current Gopher head coach Lindsay Whalen was on the squad.

Up Next

• The Terps will kick off the 2023 calendar year with a Monday, Jan. 2 game at Rutgers at 2 pm. The action can be caught on Big Ten Network.