The Maryland women’s basketball players started murmuring as they sat inside Xfinity Center on Sunday evening, patiently awaiting their NCAA tournament fate. The minutes ticked away, and team after team was announced, and the Terrapins ended up in the very last pairing named. There was little doubt the Terps would be included — the question was where and against whom?
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Maryland women return to NCAA tournament, will face Iowa State in first round
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When Maryland was finally called, a bit of a good fortune came with an upcoming West Coast trip.
Longtime Maryland coach Brenda Frese is in the midst of her most challenging season on the court in more than a decade. Her Terrapins (19-13, 9-9) posted their worst conference record since joining the Big Ten in 2014, and they had their fewest league wins since 2009-10, which was the last time the program didn’t make the tournament.
The program avoided that fate Sunday night, when the selection committee named Maryland the No. 10 seed in the Portland 4 Region, where it will face No. 7 seed Iowa State (20-11, 12-6 Big 12) in a first-round game in Palo Alto, Calif., on Friday. The Terps will face an uphill climb to advance to the tournament’s second weekend for the fourth consecutive year. If they win their opener, they will face either No. 2 seed Stanford or No. 15 seed Norfolk State, with the winner advancing to the Sweet 16.
The good fortune was the fact Frese spent four years as an assistant at Iowa State (1995-99) under current Cyclones coach Bill Fennelly and has a bit of institutional knowledge on the opponent. She called Fennelly one of her most influential mentors.
“Really kind of what propelled me and my coaching career,” Frese said. “He’s a great X and O coach, so he’s going to individually game plan. … He’s one of the best coaches out there when you talk about X’s and O’s. I know their system. I watched them in the Big 12 tournament when they played Texas and those games because I’ve always watched them over the years.”
Though there’s plenty of history between the coaches, this will be the first meeting between the programs. The Cyclones are the fifth-highest scoring team in the Big 12 (74.6 points per game), and their 37.5 percent three-point shooting led the league. Defense is not a strength: Iowa State ranks 12th in the conference in points allowed (68.0).
“The fact that it’s taken 22 years here at Maryland and in my coaching career to finally be able to coach against [Fennelly] is pretty exciting,” Frese said.
This is the first time since 2018 the Terps will not host games on the tournament’s opening weekend, which doesn’t include the pandemic-affected 2021 tournament that was played entirely in San Antonio. That honor is reserved for teams placed on the top four seed lines.
“Clearly a unique element,” Frese said about going on the road. “But for us, that’s why we played the schedule we played this season. You don’t even blink when you go in and that first matchup is still a neutral court when you’re playing against Iowa State. For us, we feel like the schedule has prepared us.”
Maryland secured its spot in the tournament after it advanced to the Big Ten tournament semifinals with wins over Illinois and No. 1 seed Ohio State. It was considered by bracket analysts to be squarely on the tournament bubble before that run in Minneapolis this month.
Maryland has advanced at least to the second round in 12 consecutive NCAA tournaments and in 18 of the past 19. Frese has missed the tournament just twice since she took over in College Park in 2002, and the winningest coach in program history has never lost in the first round with the Terrapins.
The Terps went 0-8 against ranked teams in the regular season before they upset Ohio State in the Big Ten tournament quarterfinals. They closed with a 7-2 stretch with losses to only Ohio State and Indiana. The conference tournament win over Ohio State was the best performance of the season against a team considered Final Four caliber.
“I think the biggest [lesson learned] is just we can compete with anyone,” guard Shyanne Sellers said about the Big Ten tournament. “The Ohio State win, I know we could have done it all along and all season. But just getting that win really right there just proves that we can really compete with anybody.”
Among other tournament teams from D.C., Maryland and Virginia, Virginia Tech (24-7, 14-4) seemed set up for another deep tournament run after it advanced to the Final Four last season, but a knee injury to three-time ACC player of the year Elizabeth Kitley has severely affected the team. The Hokies were seeded fourth in the Portland 3 Region and will face No. 13 seed Marshall on Friday.
Norfolk State (27-5, 13-1) will head to the tournament after winning the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference tournament for the second year in a row, earning that date with Stanford on Friday.
Richmond (29-5, 16-2) won the Atlantic 10 tournament for the first time. The Spiders earned a No. 10 seed in the Portland 3 Region and will meet No. 7 seed Duke on Friday.
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Maryland Weather: Severe Storms Moving in From West
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BALTIMORE – Severe storms have been plaguing western Maryland this afternoon. They are on the move east and will push into Carroll County near the 6pm hour. These storms have a history of producing winds capable of downing trees. We are also seeing heavy rain and lightning.
Most of the activity will push north and south of the forecast area surrounding Baltimore with the marine layer or stable air mass keeping the severe weather west of the mountain regions.
The warm front associated with the severe weather is bring warm, humid air in overnight. Expect overnight lows in the low 70s with scattered showers and isolated severe storms.
A secondary cold front will bring another chance for an isolated strong storms on Sunday. The day won’t be a washout, there is the possibility of active weather in the afternoon and evening.
The front will bring bright sunny skies for Monday with low humidity. Perfect weather for the afternoon barbecue or last summer activity. Kids getting back to school this week should expect refreshing temperatures… possibly even a little chilly with overnight lows in the 50s.
High pressure will control our weather for the middle of the week. Expect sunny skies and low humidity through Friday. Overnight lows Tuesday and Wednesday will be in the mid 50s, with afternoon highs in the upper 70s. The chance of showers returns late Friday.
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How to watch Maryland football vs. UConn
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Maryland football is back and kicks off its season at home against UConn on Saturday.
The Terps will take on the Huskies for first time since 2013, when Maryland won, 32-21. The Terps are coming off an 8-5 season, in which they won their third straight bowl game, while UConn is coming off a disappointing 3-9 season and looking to play spoiler on the road.
With a victory, Maryland will move its week one winning streak to five games.
The numbers
Maryland: 0-0
UConn: 0-0
All-time series: Maryland leads, 2-1
DraftKings Sportsbook line: Maryland -19.5, O/U 44.5
How to watch and listen
When: Saturday, Aug. 31, 12 p.m. ET
Where: SECU Stadium, College Park, Maryland
TV: Fox Sports 1 — Connor Onion (play-by-play), Mark Helfrich (analyst)
Radio: 105.7 FM (Balt) / 980 AM (DC) – Johnny Holliday (play-by-play), Steve Suter (analyst), LaMont Jordan (sideline)
Streaming: Fox Sports
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Maryland Supreme Court reinstates Adnan Syed murder conviction, orders new hearing
BALTIMORE— Maryland’s Supreme Court has upheld an appellate court’s decision to reinstate the murder conviction of Adnan Syed, whose case gained national attention in 2014 when it was featured on the first season of the “Serial” podcast.
The ruling says the case should be sent back to a lower court for a new hearing on whether it should be thrown out entirely. The decision reverses a lower court’s ruling that had cleared Syed’s name two years ago.
Syed had served more than 20 years for the 1999 murder of his ex-girlfriend, Hae Min Lee.
He was freed from prison in September 2022 after Baltimore prosecutors found flaws in the evidence presented at trial and a judge agreed to vacate his conviction.
However, Lee’s relatives appealed the decision, contending they didn’t receive sufficient notice to attend the hearing that set Syed free. In March 2023, the Maryland Appellate Court agreed and reinstated Syed’s conviction and ordered a redo of the hearing.
Syed appealed that ruling, bringing the matter to the Maryland Supreme Court. Friday’s ruling comes 11 months after arguments were made.
Justices found the circuit court violated the rights of Young Lee, Hae Min Lee’s brother.
“In an effort to remedy what they perceived to be an injustice to Mr. Syed, the prosecutor and the Circuit Court worked an injustice against Mr. Lee,” the court said.
Syed will remain free until the next hearing which has not been scheduled. The Supreme Court ordered the Lee family must have sufficient notice of the new hearing and a new judge must preside.
“If there’s actually evidence presented that shows that Adnan Syed should not have been convicted, we would be the first ones to congratulate Adnan Syed and argue he should be a free man,” said David Sanford, the attorney for the Lee family. “That hasn’t happened yet.”
In their dissenting opinions, several justices wrote when the case was vacated, any appeal by Young Lee should’ve been rendered moot. Those justices also argued there aren’t any specific victims’ rights that would require Young Lee be allowed to be present at that 2022 hearing.
Syed’s lawyer Erica Suter said that while they disagree with the ruling, the Lee family’s pain in this isn’t lost on them.
“Wrongful convictions devastate the wrongly accused, their family and the family of the victim,” Suter said. “Reinstating Adnan’s wrongful conviction does not provide justice or closure.”
Rabia Chaudry, Syed’s friend and advocate, went on Instagram Live to affirm that she will do what she can to keep Syed a free man.
“I will never not fight for his freedom and I know there are others, also, in his life who will never not fight for his freedom,” Chaudry said.
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