No. 8 Terps Welcome No. 19 Spartans In Top 20 Matchup

Sunday, December 29

College Park, MD

1 PM

Maryland

Michigan State

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No. 8 Terps Welcome No. 19 Spartans In Top 20 Matchup

12/26/2024 10:19:00 PM | Women's Basketball

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#8 Maryland vs. #19 Michigan State

December 29, 2024

1:00 PM ET

XFINITY Center (College Park, MD)

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COLLEGE PARK, MD -- The No. 8-ranked Maryland women's basketball team (11-0, 1-0 B1G) will host No. 19 Michigan State (11-1, 1-0) Sunday, Dec. 29 in a 1 p.m. game at the XFINITY Center. For tickets, click here. Parking is free in lots 9B, 4B, 11B and the Terrapin Trail Garage.

The Terrapins will sign autographs on the XFINITY Center concourse after the game. Sunday's game will be streamed on B1G+. Fans can also listen on The Bet 1300 in Baltimore, The Team 980 in Washington DC, WARK in Hagerstown, SiriusXM (211 or 195), Tune In and the One Maryland app here.

2024-25 STORYLINES

What's UP

Maryland is coming off a dominant 107-57 win on Dec. 19 in College Park. Kaylene Smikle led the Terps with 21 points. Bri McDaniel scored 18 and Allie Kubek, Christina Dalce, Shyanne Sellers and Sarah Te-Biasu also scored in double figures. Kubek and Dalce notched double-doubles and Saylor Poffenbarger grabbed 15 rebounds.
Maryland is 10-0 for the first time since it went 12-0 to start the 2018-19 season. The Terps' best start in school history was when they started 18-0 in 2006-07. The Terps are one of eight teams in the country that have not lost.
Kaylene Smikle was named to the Big Ten Player of the Week Honor Roll Monday. She led the Terps with 21 points vs. William & Mary (Dec. 19) and reached the 1,000-career points mark in the game.
Maryland women's basketball is in its 54th season and owns a record of 1,136-463 (.710). 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. 8 in the Associated Press poll released Dec. 23 and No. 8 in the USA Today Coaches poll released Dec. 24.
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.

milestone and streaks

Kaylene Smikle has scored in double figures in 10 straight games and Shyanne Sellers has scored in double figures in seven straight.
Maryland has won the rebounding battle in all 11 games this season.
Maryland is 11-0 for the first time since the 2018-19 season when it started 12-0. The Terrapins' best start in school history was 18-0 in 2006-07.
Over the last four seasons, the Terrapins are 68-5 when leading at the half. They are 10-0 this year when leading at halftime.
The Terps have won 18 straight games when leading with 5:00 to play. They are 81-1 over the last 4 seasons.
The Terrapins have won 17 straight games when leading at the start of the fourth quarter. They are 53-1 over the last 3 seasons and 239-3 since they moved to quarters in 2015-16.
Over the last six seasons, the Terps are 100-7 when they score 80 points or more.
Maryland has four 1,000 point scorers (Te-Biasu - 1,561, Sellers - 1,361, Kubek - 1,068, Smikle - 1,010).

Maryland Women's Basketball vs. Duke at XFINITY Center in College Park, MD on Sunday, Nov. 10, 2024.

Frese File

Head coach Brenda Frese is in her 23rd season in College Park. She's led the Terrapins to a record of 593-161 (.787), 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 650-191 (.773) 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 211-64 (.767) all-time against their Big Ten opponents.
Since joining the Big Ten in 2014-15, the Terrapins are 169-34 (.833) vs. their conference opponents, including their 22-5 record in the Big Ten Tournament.
In the 22 years under Frese, the Terps are 180-38 (.826) against their Big Ten opponents.
Frese is 194-43 (.819) 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

The Terps own the series over Michigan State at 18-3.
Maryland has won seven of the last eight meetings. The Spartans won last year's matchup, 74-69, in East Lansing on Jan. 9, 2024.

Terps in the Polls

Maryland is one of the most consistent winning programs in the country.
Maryland has been ranked for 310 weeks in the last 21 seasons, with 228 of those weeks in the AP top 10 and 93 in the AP top 5.
Overall, the Terps have been ranked in 580 AP polls, which puts them at fifth-most poll appearances all-time.
Brenda Frese has had a team ranked in 361 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.