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COLLEGE PARK, MD -- No. 19 Maryland put on a show on the eighth annual Field Trip Day in front of 8,454 fans, including over 6,000 students from 41 schools, defeating Davidson 70-52 on Wednesday early afternoon.

Diamond Miller was the high-scorer for the Terps again with 19 points in addition to six assists. Abby Meyers added 14 points and crossed the 1,000-point threshold for her career. She also knocked down 3-of-6 from behind the arc. Faith Masonius hit the double-figure mark for the second consecutive game with 12 points on 5-of-6 shooting.

The Terps carried a 10-point lead into halftime behind 10 points from Diamond Miller. Maryland recorded assists on nine of its 11 first-half field goals. They continued to stretch the lead behind multiple Davidson scoring droughts.

The Terps were pesky defensively all game, forcing Davidson into 30 giveaways which they converted into 16 points. They also held the Wildcats to just 38 percent shooting from the field. Shyanne Sellers notched five steals while Miller had four.

Maryland improved to 3-1 on the young season heading into a showdown with No. 18 Baylor. On the other hand, Davidson dropped to 1-2 overall.


Brenda Frese's Take
"We always love this day. This was our eighth annual Field Trip Day. We had over, gosh, 6,300 kids from about 41 surrounding schools. The atmosphere was electric. I thought they brought a great amount of energy for us for an 11 a.m. tip. First half, again, as we're continuing to keep growing with our chemistry, the 14 turnovers in the first half were really what kept the game close. I thought we did a nice job adjusting to that in the second half. The third quarter with Lav, Faith, Shy, I thought they really gave us a punch that we needed to have to get some separation. Loved our defensive intensity. Thought that made up for the turnovers. We had a season-high 18 steals and forced 30 turnovers and we definitely needed every single one of them."

Breaking Down The Action

• Behind a combined 10 points from Miller and Masonius, the Terps held a 14-10 lead after the first quarter.
• Maryland used an 8-0 run and a 3:04 Davidson scoring drought in the second stanza to push its lead to 29-19 at halftime. Miller had 10 points and four assists at the midway mark to lead the way.
• The Terps continued to build their lead in the third quarter, stretching the advantage to 17 thanks to stingy defense that held the Wildcats without a field goal for over a six-minute span.
• Maryland was able to unleash many of its freshman in the final quarter.

1,000-Point Update

• With two free throws with 51.7 seconds remaining in the first quarter, Meyers hit the 1000-point threshold. She finished the game with 14 to hit 1,012. Meyers scored 947 in her three seasons of action at Princeton before joining the Terps this season.
• Miller holds steady at 35th in career scoring at Maryland as she now has 1,087in her career. Ahead of her on the list at No. 34 is Jane Zivalich, who scored 1,113 from 1976-79.
• Lavender Briggs continues to close on the 1,000-point mark with 986. She netted 961 at Florida.
• Elisa Pinzan is also chasing 1,000 points as she has 930, with 916 coming at South Florida.

Double-Figure Update

• Miller tallied 19 points and has scored 10-plus points in all three games she has played this season as part of 58 career games in double-digits.
• Masonius had her second game in a row with double-figures after scoring 12 against Fordham on Sunday, she tallied another 12 vs. Davidson. She now has 14 career games with 10-plus points.
• Meyers (14 points) has scored in double-figures in all four games this season and now has 56 career games with 10-plus points on her way to 1,000 career points.
• Sellers also hit double-figures for the third time in four games this season with 11. She now has 16 games with 10-plus in her career as a Terp.

Notes and Nuggets

• Brinae Alexander grabbed a career-high 11 rebounds.

Up Next

• The Terps will hit the road and travel to Waco, TX for a battle against No. 18 Baylor. That game will tip off at 3 pm EST and will air on ESPN+ with audio broadcast available on umterps.com and the One Maryland App.

Terps scored 1st 5, lead 10-7, 4:28 1st Qtr
Miller has two 3’s (2-2) in early going, 6 of Terps 10 points
A little sloppy play as both teams with 5 early turnovers apiece
Crowd is interesting - it is elementary school field trip day - screaming kids are quite loud, not your typical background noise at hoops game but sounds like having fun with 6000+

Jakorian Bennett, Jaelyn Duncan and Chad Ryland have all accepted invites to the Reese's Senior Bowl. More at the link below.

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No changes that I can see at first glance....

Here is Willard's postgame presser. I know it was already mentioned in another thread, but he had some interesting comments about backups playing in garbage time that start at the 7:00 mark.

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COLLEGE PARK, Md. – The University of Maryland football team will host Rutgers on Saturday, Nov. 26 for its regular season finale at SECU Stadium. The game will kickoff at Noon and air on Big Ten Network, it was announced today.

Maryland has won three of the last four games in the series with Rutgers, including a 40-16 victory in Piscataway last season.

The Terps host No. 2 Ohio State this Saturday, while the Scarlet Knights host No. 11 Penn State.

We're about a half hour away from tipoff between the Terps and Binghamton. Maryland a monster favorite once again, but at least this time it is being televised on BTN for all to see.

UMD could land a newly available pass rusher. Details here

It may not be much of a contest, but I'm looking forward to seeing our young men on tv for the first time. BTN at 7.

No, not in basketball, but in the Liberty Bowl on 12/28. At least, that's Jerry Palm's guess yesterday. Kansas is also 6-4.

A motion to dismiss Myles Powell's negligence lawsuit against Willard and Seton Hall was denied by a NJ court today. Doesn't mean Powell has won the suit, simply means they feel there is enough there to move forward with a trial. Honestly a bit surprised, as Powell is claiming if he had shut it down during his senior season he would have been a 1st round pick. Instead, he was 1st-team All-Big East, Big East Player of the Year, won the Jerry West Award and was a consensus 1st-team All-American......and still didn't get drafted! Strange, indeed.

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Watch Locks look back on last Saturday's loss and what went wrong, how the team has tried to address things since the loss and finally look ahead to Saturday's game vs. Ohio St. at the link below.

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COLLEGE PARK, MD – Senior Diamond Miller of the 19th-ranked Maryland women's basketball team is one of 50 top players in the country named to the Wooden Award Preseason Top 50 Watch List Tuesday.

Miller is currently averaging 16.5 points, 7.0 rebounds and 2.0 blocks through two games this season. In Sunday's win over Fordham, she scored 22 points with a career-high 13 rebounds for her fourth career double-double.

Before the season, Miller was named to the Ann Meyers Drysdale Award Watch List for the nation's top shooting guard and the Naismith Trophy Watch List. She was named to the All-Big Ten Preseason Team for the second straight season as well.

Miller, a two-time All-Big Ten honoree and 2021 Big Ten Tournament Co-MVP, is Maryland's leading returning scorer after averaging 13.1 points and 4.0 rebounds last year. Miller earned All-Big Ten Second Team honors.

Miller became the 36th Terrapin to reach the 1,000-career points mark with her 23-point performance in the Terps' NCAA Tournament First Round win over Delaware.

The players on the list are considered strong candidates for the 2023 John R. Wooden Award Women's Player of the Year presented by Wendy's. Players not chosen to the preseason list are still eligible for the Wooden Award midseason list, late season list, and the National Ballot. The National Ballot consists of 15 top players who have proven to their universities that they meet or exceed the qualifications of the Wooden Award. Nearly 1,000 voters will rank in order 10 of those 15 players when voting opens prior to the NCAA Tournament and will allow voters to take into consideration performance during early round games. The Wooden Award All American Team will be announced the week of the "Elite Eight" round of the NCAA Tournament. The winner of the 2023 John R. Wooden Award will be presented in Los Angeles in April.

Miller and the Terrapins (2-1) will host Davidson (1-1) Wednesday at 11 a.m. at the XFINITY Center in the Terrapins' annual Field Trip Day game. The matchup will be streamed on B1G+.

Here are your snap counts and PFF grades from Saturdays loss. One thing that Vinny Cerrato pointed out this morning when I was on with them was how it seemed like the Maryland receivers just completely gave up. Stopped running routes to completion, stopped blocking, etc. One number that really jumped out to me was Rakim Jarrett's low run blocking grade. That's an area where he is usually solid. More at the link below.

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COLLEGE PARK, Md. – Maryland will host No. 2 Ohio State on Saturday, Nov. 19 for a Big Ten East clash that will kickoff at 3:30 pm and air on ABC, it was announced on Saturday night.

Maryland (6-4, 3-4 Big Ten) fell at No. 14 Penn State on Saturday. Ohio State (10-0, 7-0 Big Ten) is coming off a win over Indiana.

The Terps have not hosted the Buckeyes since 2018. Ohio State won that game in overtime, 52-51.

Watching the national news this morning and they apparently had a shooting on campus last night at UVA. It is now being reported that the shooter was a former football player who took the lives of three current football players. They literally just lifted a shelter in place order on campus but they are yet to catch the shooter. Sad and scary stuff!

At this point in my life I need help to navigate the season of Women's basketball. I am no expert but what was Brenda thinking when she kept focusing on getting guards, We cant buy a legit rebound. Its going to be brutal this year. I look at this years roster and what we have in coming next year and we got no big's. Chardon did not meet expectations and now she is out. Kubek might have added some heft in the middle. I need some help cause its this year and also next.

next weekend @ UConn

That is who Lia reminded me of yesterday. Happy feet, holds the ball too long, so nervous and jumpy that he can't find the open receivers. Panics. And it doesn't help that our coaching staff hasn't taught receivers and QB about hot reads and fionding the open spots vacated by the blitzing players. Ugh. Turned the game off before halftime. Too much PTSD remebering the Kyle Boller years in Baltimore.

Wearing brace on right knee

Terps 27, PSU 25. Our K wins the game.

Is it time for wholesale changes on offense? Are the Terps regressing? Three takeaways from today's shutout loss at the link below.

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60 4* and 5* recruits in 2023 so far in the B1G.

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How many for the MASTER RECRUITER so far?

Hey guys! Rich Schnyderite here, publisher of Nittany Nation aka the Penn State-Rivals site. Just wanted to drop by and post our video from PSU head coach James Franklin's press conference today.

There are a couple of Maryland questions / answers in there, so ENJOY! If you guys want, I'll also throw in any and all Maryland / PSU content from our site in this thread as well.

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