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Women's Basketball 11/2/2024 8:00:00 AM

#18 Maryland Opens Season at UMBC

#18 Maryland

UMBC

November 4, 2024
7:00 PM ET
Chesapeake Employers Insurance Arena (Baltimore, MD)
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COLLEGE PARK, MD -- The 18th-ranked Maryland women's basketball team will open the 2024-25 season at UMBC Monday, Nov. 4 at 7 p.m. The Terps-Retrievers game will be streamed on ESPN+. Click here for tickets.

2024-25 STORYLINES

What's UP

No. 18/18 Maryland will open the 2024-25 season Monday at UMBC. The last time Maryland opened the season on the road was Nov. 7, 2022 when it won 88-51 at George Mason.
Maryland women's basketball is entering its 54th season and owns a record of 1,125-463 (.708). 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 18-team Big Ten Conference by both the league's head coaches and media panel. The Terrapins were behind just USC, UCLA and Ohio State and Indiana was picked to finish fifth.
The Terrapins are ranked No. 18 in the Associated Press preseason poll and in the USA Today Coaches Preseason poll.
Two-time National Coach of the Year Brenda Frese brings in 10 new players, including seven transfers, to the squad this season. The Terrapins welcome Big East Co-Defensive Player of the Year Christina Dalce, Atlantic 10 Player of the Year Sarah Te-Biasu, All-Big Ten First Team honoree Kaylene Smikle, All-SEC Freshman Team honoree Saylor Poffenbarger, as well as Mir McLean, Amari DeBerry and Isimenme Ozzy-Momodu.
Maryland also welcomes three freshmen in Ava McKennie, Kyndal Walker and Breanna Williams. All three won championships in high school.
The Terrapins return All-Big Ten honorees Shyanne Sellers and Bri McDaniel, as well as Emily Fisher, Emma Chardon and Allie Kubek for the 2024-25 season.
Sellers was named to the 10-player All-Big Ten Preseason Team for the second straight season. Sellers earned All-Big Ten First Team honors last year after averaging 15.6 points, 5.8 rebounds and 5.5 assists per game.
Sellers was named to the Ann Meyers Drysdale Award Watch List for the nation's top shooting guard. Poffenbarger was named to the Cheryl Miller Award Watch List for the nation's top small forward.

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Head coach Brenda Frese is in her 23rd season in College Park. She's led the Terrapins to a record of 582-161 (.783), 14 conference titles, 20 NCAA Tournament bids in 22 postseasons, three Final Fours, seven Elite Eights, 11 Sweet Sixteens and the 2006 NCAA Championship.
Frese owns a career record of 639-191 (.770) over her 26 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 210-64 (.766) all-time against their Big Ten opponents.
Since joining the Big Ten in 2014-15, the Terrapins are 168-34 (.832) vs. their conference opponents, including their 22-5 record in the Big Ten Tournament.
In the 22 years under Frese, the Terps are 179-38 (.829) against their Big Ten opponents.
Frese is 193-43 (.818) all-time vs. Big Ten opponents, which includes her time at Minnesota and at Ball State.
Since joining the league in 2014, Maryland is 78-9 (.897) against Big Ten teams at home.

Guard Shyanne Sellers (0)Maryland Women's Basketball B1G Tournament Semifinal vs. Nebraska at Target Center in Minneapolis, MN on Saturday, Mar. 9, 2024. Chris Lyons/Maryland Terrapins

series history

Maryland is 12-0 vs. all-time vs. UMBC. Most recently, the Terps beat the Retrievers, 92-61, on Dec. 2, 2018 in College Park.
Frese is 6-0 vs. UMBC.

Guard/Forward Mir McLean (10)Maryland Women's Basketball vs. Forstburg State at XFINITY Center in College Park, MD on October 30, 2024.Ian Cox/Maryland Terrapins

terps in the polls

Maryland is one of the most consistent winning programs in the country.
Maryland has been ranked for 303 weeks in the last 21 seasons, with 223 of those weeks in the AP top 10 and 93 in the AP top 5.
Overall, the Terps have been ranked in 573 AP polls, which puts them at fifth-most poll appearances all-time.
Brenda Frese has had a team ranked in 354 weeks in her career.
Maryland has started the season ranked in the last 15 seasons straight and 20 of head coach Brenda Frese's 23 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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Players Mentioned

#21 Emma Chardon: F; 6' 2"; Redshirt Sophomore

#14 Allie Kubek: F; 6' 2"; Redshirt Junior

#24 Bri McDaniel: G; 5' 10"; Sophomore

#0 Shyanne Sellers: G; 6' 2"; Junior

#34 Emily Fisher: G/F; 6' 0"; Freshman

#8 Kyndal Walker: G; 5' 9"; Freshman

#5 Ava McKennie: G/F; 6' 2"; Freshman

#40 Breanna Williams: F; 6' 2"; Freshman

#2 Kaylene Smikle: G; 6' 0"; Junior

#1 Sarah Te-Biasu: G; 5' 5"; Graduate Student

Players Mentioned

#21 Emma Chardon
: 6' 2"; Redshirt Sophomore
: F

#14 Allie Kubek
: 6' 2"; Redshirt Junior
: F

#24 Bri McDaniel
: 5' 10"; Sophomore
: G

#0 Shyanne Sellers
: 6' 2"; Junior
: G

#34 Emily Fisher
: 6' 0"; Freshman
: G/F

#8 Kyndal Walker
: 5' 9"; Freshman
: G

#5 Ava McKennie
: 6' 2"; Freshman
: G/F

#40 Breanna Williams
: 6' 2"; Freshman
: F

#2 Kaylene Smikle
: 6' 0"; Junior
: G

#1 Sarah Te-Biasu
: 5' 5"; Graduate Student
: G