#2 Maryland (13-5, 4-2 B1G)
vs.
#6 Rutgers (8-8, 1-5 B1G)
May 4, 2023
Ohio State Lacrosse Stadium
8:30 p.m. ET
Big Ten Network
COLLEGE PARK, MD - Maryland will face No. 6 seed Rutgers in the Big Ten Semifinals on Thursday, May 4 at 8:30 p.m. on the campus of Ohio State. The game will be broadcast on the Big Ten Network with Dean Linke and Taylor Thornton on the call. The Terps are the reigning Big Ten Tournament Champions and have won four of seven Big Ten Tournaments.
Where we are
Terps celebrate a goal vs. Ohio State
50th Season of maryland women's lacrosse
- The 2023 season will be the 50th season of Maryland women's lacrosse, a program that has been the most successful in the entire sport since its start.
- Maryland has won 15 national championships and 31 conference championships. The Terps have participated in 28 Final Fours, including 12 of the last 13 and have won 12 of the last 28 national championships, including seven-straight from 1995-2001. Maryland has an all-time program record of 772-155-3 through 49 seasons.
The Boss: Tewaaraton nominee
- Graduate defender Abby Bosco was selected as a top-25 nominee for lacrosse's most prestigious honor, the Tewaaraton Award, the foundation announced last week.
- Bosco leads the Maryland defense, which has held 11 opponents to single digit goals this season.
- The graduate captain stands second in the Big Ten and 13th in the nation with 37 caused turnovers, ranks fourth in the Big Ten with 37 groundballs and has the fifth-most draw controls in the conference with 78.
draw queens
- Maryland has been dominant on the draw circle through 18 games, standing with the third-best draw control percentage in the nation, winning 62.4 percent of all draw controls this season. The Terps have recorded 16.11 draw controls per game this season, the 13th-best mark in the nation. Shaylan Ahearn stands 10th in the country and leads the Big Ten with 119 draw controls.
- In the Terps last game against Ohio State, Ahearn helped the Terps win the draw control battle by a staggering 19-3 mark and recorded the 300th draw control of her career with her seventh of the game, only the fourth Terp in program history to tally 300 draw controls. Ahearn has jumped from seventh to fourth on the Maryland draw control career rankings this season and is only 23 behind Lizzie Colson (2017-21) for third all-time.
- Ahearn's 119 draw controls this season currently stands as the eighth-best mark in program history and is only 25 draw controls away from Taylor Cummings single season program record of 144 (2015).
- Another Terp, Abby Bosco, also eclipsed the 200 draw control mark at Villanova and now has 248 in her career. 167 of those have come as a Terp, 81 at Penn, where she played from 2018-21.
big ten Tournament Time
- The Terps have four Big Ten Tournament championships, winning in three straight seasons from 2016-18 and last season, 2022. Maryland is 12-3 all-time in the Big Ten Tournament and has made the championship game in every season except for 2015.
- Maryland has won 15 Conference Tournament Championships in program history, with 10 of those coming since Cathy Reese became the head coach in 2007 (six ACC, four Big Ten). The Terps took home six-straight ACC titles from 2009-14 and three-straight B1G titles from 2016-18.
- Reese is 27-5 as the coach of Maryland in conference tournament games and the Terps are 57-9 against Big Ten opponents since joining the conference in 2015.
2022 Big Ten Champs
dominance under reese
- Head Coach Cathy Reese enters her 17th season at the helm of Maryland women's lacrosse. The winningest coach in program history, Reese is 315-39 as head coach and has led the Terps to five National Championships, 12 Final Fours and 22 Conference Championships.
- Maryland is 168-6 at home under Reese, with nine undefeated home campaigns in the last 11 seasons (2013, '14, '15, '16, '17, '18, '19, '21).
- Reese is 57-9 against Big Ten opponents since joining the conference in 2015 and 9-4 against Northwestern.
history vs. rutgers
- Maryland is 24-1 all-time against Rutgers, and has won three in a row against the Scarlet Knights, including last year's Big Ten Championship game.
- Earlier this season, the Terps defeated Rutgers 16-8 in New Jersey behind eight points from Eloise Clevenger (three goals, five assists) and five goals from Hannah Leubecker.
- In last year's Big Ten Championship game, Maryland went on an 11-1 second half run to beat Rutgers 18-8 with the game tied at seven at haltime. Libby May netted five goals and also collected an assist. Eloise Clevenger had a pair of goals and four assists as well.
- Abby Bosco won nine draws, Shaylan Ahearn won seven and Shannon Smith controlled four. Emily Sterling made four saves in goal.
Terps Celebrate a Goal vs. Rutgers in Big Ten Championship, 2022