Terrapins to Play Three Games in Cancun Challenge

Maryland (2-2)

vs.

No. 23 Washington State (5-0)

November 23, 2023

Hard Rock Hotel Riviera Maya (Cancun, Mexico)

11:00 a.m.

Watch Live Stats

Green Bay (2-1)

vs.

Maryland (2-2)

November 24, 2023

Hard Rock Hotel Riviera Maya (Cancun, Mexico)

1:30 p.m.

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UMass (1-4)

vs.

Maryland (2-2)

November 25, 2023

Hard Rock Hotel Riviera Maya (Cancun, Mexico)

11:00 a.m.

Watch Live Stats

CANCUN, MEXICO -- The Maryland women's basketball team (2-2) will play three games in the Cancun Challenge this week at the Hard Rock Hotel Riviera Maya in Mexico. The Terrapins will take on No. 23 Washington State (5-0), Green Bay (2-1) and UMass (1-4). All three games will be streamed on FloHoops and live stats will be available here.

For more on the Cancun Challenge, click here.

What's UP

Maryland women's basketball is entering its 53rd season and owns a record of 1,108-452 (.710). The Terrapins are No. 11 all-time in NCAA Division I history in winning percentage and No. 9 in all-time victories.
Maryland is coming off of an 83-81 win over Syracuse Sunday in College Park. Allie Kubek went 10-14 from the field for 23 points with 8 boards. Shyanne Sellers added 19 points and 8 boards and Bri McDaniel scored 12 points. Lavender Briggs added 10 points.
Sellers was also named to the Wooden Award Preseason Top 50 Watch List earlier this month.
Maryland was picked to finish fourth in the Big Ten by both the league's head coaches and media panel. Both groups picked Iowa to win the conference. The coaches selected Ohio State to finish second and Indiana to finish third with Illinois rounding out the top five. The media panel selected Indiana to finish second, Ohio State third and Michigan fifth.
Two-time National Coach of the Year Brenda Frese brings in seven new players this season, including AP All-American honoree Jakia Brown-Turner (NC State).
Last fall, Frese also signed four top recruits in Summer Bostock, Hawa Doumbouya, Emily Fisher and Riley Nelson. This fall, Frese welcomed to walk-ons in Mary Sareen and Zen Nuako.
The Terrapins return four of their top six scorers from last season's Elite Eight squad.
Junior Shyanne Sellers was named to the 10-player Preseason All-Big Ten Team to start the year. She was named to the All-Big Ten First Team by the league's media panel last year and to the Second Team by the head coaches.
Sellers is one of 20 top players in the country on the Nancy Lieberman Award Watch List, an honor by the Basketball Hall of Fame recognizing the top point guard in women's NCAA Division I basketball.
Graduate Jakia Brown-Turner was named to the Cheryl Miller Award Watch List for the nation's top small forward.
Maryland has three 1,000 point scorers (Brown-Turner - 1,317; Briggs - 1,236; Alexander - 1,194).

2023-24 Maryland Women's Basketball Team

Scouting Report

Maryland is 1-1 vs. Washington State. The Cougars took their first matchup, 70-64, in Puerto Rico on Nov. 29, 2014. Maryland won the second matchup, 79-69, in Las Vegas on Nov. 26, 2017.
Maryland is 1-0 vs. Green Bay. The Terps won their only meeting, 65-55, in the NCAA Tournament First Round on March, 20, 2005.
The Terps are 2-0 all-time vs. UMass. Maryland took their last meeting, 82-50, in Greenville, N.C. on Nov. 27, 2011.

Guard Jakia Brown-Turner (11)Maryland Women's Basketball vs. Harvard at Xfinity Center in College Park, MD on Monday, Nov. 6, 2023. Chris Lyons/ Maryland Athletics

Shyanne Sellers had 19 points, six assists, and four rebounds vs. UConn in 2022.

Frese File

Head coach Brenda Frese is in her 22nd season in College Park. She's led the Terrapins to a record of 565-149 (.791), 14 conference titles, 19 NCAA Tournament bids in 21 postseasons, three Final Fours, seven Elite Eights, 11 Sweet Sixteens and the 2006 NCAA Championship.
Frese owns a career record of 622-179 (.777) over her 25 years as a head coach.
Frese was named National Coach of the Year by the AP, The Athletic and ESPN at the end of the 2020-21 season. In October 2021, Frese was the first woman inducted into the Washington DC Metro Basketball Hall of Fame.
With the Terrapins' win at Nebraska on Feb. 14, 2021, Frese picked up win No. 500 at Maryland, which makes her the winningest coach in Maryland basketball history. Hall of Fame women's basketball head coach Chris Weller won 499 games in her 27 seasons (1975-02).

Brenda Frese

Maryland in the B1G

The Terps are 199-54 (.787) all-time against their Big Ten opponents.
Since joining the Big Ten in 2014-15, the Terrapins are 157-24 (.867) vs. their conference opponents, including their 20-4 record in the Big Ten Tournament.
In the 21 years under Frese, the Terps are 168-28 (.857) against their Big Ten opponents.
Frese is 182-33 (.847) all-time vs. Big Ten opponents, which includes her time at Minnesota and at Ball State.
Since joining the league in 2014, Maryland is 72-6 (.923) against Big Ten teams at home.