NCAA Women's Tournament: West Virginia tops Princeton (PHOTO), The Maryland women’s basketball aggregation was adhering to a attenuated beforehand in the third division of the Big Ten clash final on March 6 if Coach Brenda Frese signaled for Brene Moseley and Tierney Pfirman to access the game. According To Washingtonpost....
The chief affluence bound appear to the scorer’s table at Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis and watched assistant Shatori Walker-Kimbrough bore two chargeless throws to put the Terrapins in foreground of Michigan State by four with 5 account 10 abnormal to play.
Less than nine account later, a 60-44 celebration was calmly in duke address of a 17-8 access in which Moseley and Pfirman accumulated to account all but two points. It was yet addition achievement in which the bank contributed significantly, accent the superior abyss that has the Terrapins conference for a run at a third beeline Final Four.
“Our bank has consistently been our backbone,” Moseley said. “The stronger our bank is, the bigger our aggregation is.”
Maryland (30-3), the No. 2 berry in the Lexington Region, will accessible the NCAA clash on Saturday afternoon adjoin 15th-seeded Iona (23-11) at Xfinity Center. The Terrapins are 15-1 at home this division and accept won eight in a row there. They’ve aswell won eight afterwards NCAA clash amateur in College Park dating from 2011.
Contributions from Maryland’s affluence amount to be even added important if the Terrapins beforehand to regionals. Not alone would the adversary a lot of acceptable be No. 3 berry Kentucky — and at Rupp Arena, the Wildcats’ celebrated home court, no beneath — but the bold would be just three canicule afterwards Maryland’s accepted bold in the annular of 32.
That would leave one day off for accretion and one abounding day of convenance afore abandonment for Lexington, Ky.
“I’m not abiding abounding any teams accept what we accept advancing off the bank with Tierney and Brene if you allocution about burning breach amid the two of them,” Frese said. “Your abyss is absolutely important. We’re advantageous because of the acquaintance we accept advancing off the bench. That’s huge if you’re arena assorted amateur and teams in the tournament.”
Reserves accept led Maryland in scoring nine times this division and collectively outscored the opponents’ bank by 200-81 over the endure eight games, including 51-27 in the final two circuit of the Big Ten tournament. By contrast, the Gaels got 28 credibility from their bank players in three Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference clash games.
Half of the Terrapins’ top six scorers are reserves, led by Moseley’s 11.4 credibility per game. The Washington Post first-team All-Met as a inferior at Paint Branch High School was called Big Ten sixth amateur of the year this division as able-bodied as second-team all-conference in the coaches’ voting. This is the point guard’s aboriginal division averaging in bifold figures.
Moseley is third on the Terrapins in three-pointers fabricated (24) and additional in chargeless bandy allotment (76.9) a part of players with at atomic 15 attempts. She’s aswell gotten to the chargeless bandy band 108 times, by far the a lot of in her 5 years in College Park. (Moseley accustomed a medical redshirt for 2012-13 afterwards disturbing the ACL in her larboard knee during a preseason intrasquad scrimmage.)
“The atom they accompany is just great,” Walker-Kimbrough said. “I still don’t anticipate humans accept had answers for our bench, just seeing the arrangement of what our bank has denticulate compared to added teams. You apperceive the humans advancing in, there’s no declivity at all. Just the abrasion and breach [on opponents] and that burden absolutely advice a lot, abnormally at this time of the year.”
Pfirman has emerged as a dependable scorer, decidedly on jumpers, acknowledgment to her quick absolution with no ashen motion. She averages nine credibility in just 17 account per game. In the 11 amateur this division in which the advanced has played added than 17 minutes, her scoring boilerplate is 13.3.
Included in that run was a career-high 29 credibility in the approved division afterpiece adjoin Minnesota.
On chief day at Xfinity Center, Pfirman fabricated 12 of 19 shots to go forth with a career-high 13 rebounds in a 110-77 win that anchored Maryland’s additional beeline Big Ten approved division championship. Pfirman aswell outscored Golden Gophers bouncer Rachel Banham, the Big Ten amateur of the year and second-leading scorer in the country.
“It depends on who we’re arena and how the breeze of the bold is going, but for me personally, my activity is college already I hit a shot,” said Pfirman, who has 10 of her 30 career double-figure amateur this season. “So for me that’s a acceptable way to alpha advancing in off the bench, but whether it’s rebounding, casual or screening, whatever Coach B comes over and says we need, I’m accommodating to go out and do.”
The chief affluence bound appear to the scorer’s table at Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis and watched assistant Shatori Walker-Kimbrough bore two chargeless throws to put the Terrapins in foreground of Michigan State by four with 5 account 10 abnormal to play.
“Our bank has consistently been our backbone,” Moseley said. “The stronger our bank is, the bigger our aggregation is.”
Maryland (30-3), the No. 2 berry in the Lexington Region, will accessible the NCAA clash on Saturday afternoon adjoin 15th-seeded Iona (23-11) at Xfinity Center. The Terrapins are 15-1 at home this division and accept won eight in a row there. They’ve aswell won eight afterwards NCAA clash amateur in College Park dating from 2011.
Contributions from Maryland’s affluence amount to be even added important if the Terrapins beforehand to regionals. Not alone would the adversary a lot of acceptable be No. 3 berry Kentucky — and at Rupp Arena, the Wildcats’ celebrated home court, no beneath — but the bold would be just three canicule afterwards Maryland’s accepted bold in the annular of 32.
That would leave one day off for accretion and one abounding day of convenance afore abandonment for Lexington, Ky.
“I’m not abiding abounding any teams accept what we accept advancing off the bank with Tierney and Brene if you allocution about burning breach amid the two of them,” Frese said. “Your abyss is absolutely important. We’re advantageous because of the acquaintance we accept advancing off the bench. That’s huge if you’re arena assorted amateur and teams in the tournament.”
Reserves accept led Maryland in scoring nine times this division and collectively outscored the opponents’ bank by 200-81 over the endure eight games, including 51-27 in the final two circuit of the Big Ten tournament. By contrast, the Gaels got 28 credibility from their bank players in three Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference clash games.
Half of the Terrapins’ top six scorers are reserves, led by Moseley’s 11.4 credibility per game. The Washington Post first-team All-Met as a inferior at Paint Branch High School was called Big Ten sixth amateur of the year this division as able-bodied as second-team all-conference in the coaches’ voting. This is the point guard’s aboriginal division averaging in bifold figures.
Moseley is third on the Terrapins in three-pointers fabricated (24) and additional in chargeless bandy allotment (76.9) a part of players with at atomic 15 attempts. She’s aswell gotten to the chargeless bandy band 108 times, by far the a lot of in her 5 years in College Park. (Moseley accustomed a medical redshirt for 2012-13 afterwards disturbing the ACL in her larboard knee during a preseason intrasquad scrimmage.)
“The atom they accompany is just great,” Walker-Kimbrough said. “I still don’t anticipate humans accept had answers for our bench, just seeing the arrangement of what our bank has denticulate compared to added teams. You apperceive the humans advancing in, there’s no declivity at all. Just the abrasion and breach [on opponents] and that burden absolutely advice a lot, abnormally at this time of the year.”
Pfirman has emerged as a dependable scorer, decidedly on jumpers, acknowledgment to her quick absolution with no ashen motion. She averages nine credibility in just 17 account per game. In the 11 amateur this division in which the advanced has played added than 17 minutes, her scoring boilerplate is 13.3.
Included in that run was a career-high 29 credibility in the approved division afterpiece adjoin Minnesota.
On chief day at Xfinity Center, Pfirman fabricated 12 of 19 shots to go forth with a career-high 13 rebounds in a 110-77 win that anchored Maryland’s additional beeline Big Ten approved division championship. Pfirman aswell outscored Golden Gophers bouncer Rachel Banham, the Big Ten amateur of the year and second-leading scorer in the country.
“It depends on who we’re arena and how the breeze of the bold is going, but for me personally, my activity is college already I hit a shot,” said Pfirman, who has 10 of her 30 career double-figure amateur this season. “So for me that’s a acceptable way to alpha advancing in off the bench, but whether it’s rebounding, casual or screening, whatever Coach B comes over and says we need, I’m accommodating to go out and do.”
){kind=link}