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No. 16 Maryland to Open West Coast Swing at Oregon

Team Photo with Coaches

#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). 
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 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…

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