#16 Maryland at Oregon
February 6, 2025
9 PM ET (Eugene, OR)
COLLEGE PARK, MD -- The 16th-ranked Maryland women's basketball team (17-5, 7-4 B1G) will open a two-game road swing at Oregon (16-6, 7-4) Thursday with a 9 pm ET matchup at Matthew Knight Arena in Eugene, Ore. Thursday's game will be televised on FS1.
2024-25 STORYLINES
What's UP
milestone and streaks
- Smikle has scored in double figures in 21 straight games. Te-Biasu has scored in double figures in four straight. Sellers has scored in double figures in 17 of 20 games and all 11 games in Big Ten play.
- Sellers is currently No. 18 on Maryland's all-time scoring list with 1,496 career points. She needs 3 points to pass Deedee Warley (1,512) at No. 17. Sellers' 483 career assists are No. 7 in the Maryland career record book. She needs 4 to pass Anjale Barrett at No. 6 (486) and 6 to pass Alyssa Thomas at No. 5 (488).
- Maryland has won the rebounding battle in 17 of 22 games this season.
- Over the last four seasons, the Terrapins are 74-7 when leading at the half. They are 16-2 this year when leading at halftime.
- The Terps are 87-3 when leading with 5:00 to play over the last 4 seasons.
- The Terrapins have won 23 straight games when leading at the start of the fourth quarter. They are 59-1 over the last 3 seasons and 245-3 since they moved to quarters in 2015-16.
- Over the last six seasons, the Terps are 103-7 when they score 80 points or more.
- Maryland has four 1,000 point scorers (Te-Biasu - 1,639, Sellers - 1,510, Smikle - 1,196, Kubek - 1,151).
Frese File
- Head coach Brenda Frese is in her 23rd season in College Park. She's led the Terrapins to a record of 599-166 (.784), 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 656-196 (.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 217-68 (.761) all-time against their Big Ten opponents.
- Since joining the Big Ten in 2014-15, the Terrapins are 175-38 (.822) vs. their conference opponents, including their 22-5 record in the Big Ten Tournament.
- In the 22 years under Frese, the Terps are 186-42 (.819) against their Big Ten opponents.
- Frese is 200-47 (.810) all-time vs. Big Ten opponents, which includes her time at Minnesota and at Ball State.
- Since joining the league in 2014, Maryland is 81-12 (.871) against Big Ten teams at home.
Series History
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Oregon has won both of the teams' two previous meetings.
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Most recently, the 10th-seeded Ducks upset third-seeded Maryland, 77-63, in the Sweet Sixteen on March 25, 2017.
Terps in the Polls
- Maryland is one of the most consistent winning programs in the country.
- Maryland has been ranked for 316 weeks in the last 21 seasons, with 232 of those weeks in the AP top 10 and 93 in the AP top 5.
- Overall, the Terps have been ranked in 586 AP polls, which puts them at fifth-most poll appearances all-time.
- Brenda Frese has had a team ranked in 367 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.
