No. 14 Maryland Set for Matchup at No. 6 South Carolina

#14 Maryland

#6 South Carolina

November 12, 2023
1 PM ET
Colonial Life Arena (Columbia, SC)
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COLLEGE PARK, MD -- The 14th-ranked Maryland women's basketball team (1-0) will travel to No. 6 South Carolina (1-0) Sunday for a 1 p.m. matchup at the Colonial Life Arena in Columbia, S.C. The Terps-Gamecocks game will be televised on ABC.

2023-24 STORYLINES

What's UP

Maryland women's basketball is entering its 53rd season and owns a record of 1,107-450 (.711). The Terrapins are No. 11 all-time in NCAA Division I history in winning percentage and No. 9 in all-time victories.
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 - 1,284; Briggs - 1,221; Alexander - 1,171).

scouting report

South Carolina owns the series with Maryland at 2-5 and has won the last four meetings, including two last season - 81-56 in College Park on Nov. 11 and 86-75 on March 27 in the Elite Eight.
Maryland is 1-1 at Colonial Life Arena. In their most recent trip, the Terrapins fell 66-59 to then-No. 1 South Carolina on Dec. 12, 2021.

frese file

Head coach Brenda Frese is in her 22nd season in College Park. She's led the Terrapins to a record of 564-147 (.793), 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 621-177 (.778) 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).

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.

Maryland Women's Basketball vs. Iowa at Xfinity Center in College Park, MD on Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2023. Maryland Terrapins

terps in the polls

Maryland is one of the most consistent winning programs in the country. The Terrapins have been ranked in 250 straight Associated Press polls, dating back to the preseason poll of the 2010-11 season. That streak is behind just Connecticut (565 weeks).
Maryland has been ranked for 301 weeks in the last 20 seasons, with 223 of those weeks in the AP top 10 and 93 in the AP top 5.
Brenda Frese has had a team ranked in 352 weeks in her career.
Maryland has started the season ranked in the last 14 seasons straight and 19 of head coach Brenda Frese's 22 seasons in College Park. The Terps have been in the AP Preseason Top 10 11 times under Frese and in the top five six times.