Perspective: Brenda Frese and Maryland finally blow past their Sweet 16 roadblock, thanks to heart, hustle and fight.
On Saturday, in yet another round-of-16 game — described cruelly as “sweet” when it had been anything but for the Terps — Frese and her players faced yet another obstacle. It was big and blue and bruising. But every barrier has a crack somewhere, and Maryland finally found it.“The last two years, we’ve gotten stuck at the Sweet 16,” senior Faith Masonius said. “After our last home win, I told [Frese], ‘We’re not getting stuck there again.
Less than 30 seconds into the game, Masonius attempted a steal, twisted her ankle and headed for the sideline, although she quickly returned. A couple of minutes later, sophomore Shyanne Sellers entered the rumble underneath the boards and her goggles paid the price. The pace and physicality had Meyers rooting for a commercial break, and by the first media timeout, she was bent over, clutching her knees and gasping for air.
Sellers, on her second pair of goggles, didn’t show the same signs of fatigue. Still, she and Miller, and later freshman Bri McDaniel, felt the brunt of the Irish’s bigs. They were tasked with defending the post, and the assignment probably affected their offensive output. Neither Miller nor Sellers scored in the first quarter. Miller, who averages nearly 20 points, finally cracked the big goose egg when she put her head down to force a whistle with 2:53 remaining in the half.
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