No. 8 Maryland at No. 6 Iowa
Feb. 2, 2023
8:30Â PM ETÂ
Carver-Hawkeye Arena (Iowa City, IA)
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COLLEGE PARK, MDÂ --Â Â The eighth-ranked Maryland women's basketball team (18-4, 9-2 B1G) will take on No. 6 Iowa (17-4, 9-1) Thursday at 8:30 p.m. ET at Carver-Hawkeye Arena in Iowa City, Iowa. The Terps-Hawkeyes game will be televised on ESPN.
Thursday's game is the Terrapins' first of two back-to-back matchups with top 10 opponents. The Terps will host No. 10 Ohio State 19-3, 8-3) Sunday at 4 p.m. at the XFINITY Center. Sunday's game is Maryland's annual Play4Kay Pink Game to support breast cancer awareness. Breast cancer survivors can click
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2022-23 STORYLINES
What's UP
- Maryland beat Penn State, 87-66, Monday in College Park. Abby Meyers led the Terps with a season-high 24 points, while Shyanne Sellers scored 15. Diamond Miller added 14 points.
- Brenda Frese and the Terps are 26-2 in the month of February over the last 5 seasons. Frese and the Terrapins are 32-1 at home at the XFINITY Center in the month of February since 2014.
- Diamond Miller is one of 25 top players in the country named to the Wooden Award Midseason Watch List. She was also named to the Ann Meyers Drysdale Award Midseason Final 10 list.Â
- Shyanne Sellers was named to the Cheryl Miller Award Final 10 list for the nation's top small forward.
- The Terrapins have the second-toughest schedule in the country this season, according to the Massey Ratings. The Terrapins are 4-2 vs. ranked teams this season with two wins over top 10 teams.
- Maryland currently has four 1,000 point scorers (Miller - 1,426; Meyers - 1,250; Briggs - 1,106; Alexander - 1,038) and one player nearing the mark - Elisa Pinzan (996).
- Maryland women's basketball is in its 52nd season and owns a record of 1,096-447Â (.710). The Terrapins are No. 11 all-time in NCAA Division I history in winning percentage and No. 9 in all-time victories.
- Senior Diamond Miller was named to the 10-player Preseason All-Big Ten Team for the second straight season to start the year. She is a two-time All-Big Ten honoree and was the 2021 Big Ten Tournament Co-MOP.
- Miller was also named to the Jersey Mike's Naismith Trophy Watch List as one of the top 50 players in the country.
- 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, Indiana to finish third with Michigan rounding out the top five. The media panel picked Indiana to finish second, Ohio State third and Michigan fifth.
- Two-time National Coach of the Year Brenda Frese brings in nine new players this season, including AP Honorable Mention All-American honoree Abby Meyers (Princeton), All-SEC transfer Lavender Briggs (Florida), All-AAC transfer Elisa Pinzan (USF), SEC graduate transfer Brinae Alexander (Vanderbilt) and All-CAA transfer Allie Kubek (Towson).
- All five transfers averaged over 9.0 points per game last year - Meyers (17.9), Alexander (15.2), Briggs (12.5), Kubek (12.2) and Pinzan (9.3).
- Last spring, Frese also signed two top-55 incoming freshmen in Gia Cooke and Bri McDaniel. Incoming freshman Ava Sciolla and Mila Reynolds signed with Maryland last November, giving the Terrapins a top 10 recruiting class for the 15th time under Frese.
Series history
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- Head coach Brenda Frese is in her 21st season in College Park. She's led the Terrapins to a record of 553-144 (.793), 14 conference titles, 18 NCAA Tournament bids in 20 postseasons, three Final Fours, six Elite Eights, 10 Sweet Sixteens and the 2006 NCAA Championship.Â
- Frese owns a career record of 610-174 (.778) over her 24 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. Last October, 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 192-52Â (.787) all-time against their Big Ten opponents.
- Since joining the Big Ten in 2014-15, the Terrapins are 150-22Â (.872) vs. their conference opponents, including their 19-3 record in the Big Ten Tournament.
- In the 21 years under Frese, the Terps are 161-26Â (.861) against their Big Ten opponents.
- Frese is 175-31Â (.850) all-time vs. Big Ten opponents, which includes her time at Minnesota and at Ball State.
- Since joining the league in 2014, Maryland is 69-6 (.920) against Big Ten teams at home.
terps in the polls
- Maryland is one of the most consistent winning programs in the country. The Terrapins have been ranked in 243 straight Associated Press polls, dating back to the preseason poll of the 2010-11 season. That streak is behind just Connecticut (558 weeks).
- Maryland has been ranked for 293Â weeks in the last 19 seasons, with 216Â of those weeks in the AP top 10 and 92Â in the AP top 5.
- Brenda Frese has had a team ranked in 345 weeks in her career. She recently passed former Virginia head coach Debbie Ryan for 13th all time.
- Maryland has started the season ranked in the last 13 seasons straight and 18 of head coach Brenda Frese's 21 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.
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