Wake Forest Athletics
Women's Basketball Hosts Maryland at the Annex
1/10/2003 12:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
Jan. 10, 2003
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WFU WOMEN'S BASKETBALL NEWS & NOTES
Game 14
Sun., Jan. 12, 2003
Wake Forest (10-3, 1-2 ACC) vs.Maryland (7-7, 1-2 ACC)
Joel Coliseum Annex (3,008)/Winston-Salem, N.C.
Tipoff: 2:00 pm
Radio: None.
Records: WFU is 10-3 and 1-2 in the ACC with a loss at nationally-ranked UNC in its last outing on Thursday. The Terrapins are 7-7 and own an identical conference mark after falling to Clemson in its last outing.
The Series: Sunday??s game is the 52nd meeting between the two teams. Maryland leads the series 40-11, and won the last meeting in the 2002 ACC Tournament, 72-66.
The Coaches: Deacon coach Charlene Curtis begins her sixth season at WFU, where she has compiled a 52-100 record. Her 17-year career has produced a 214-250 mark. Maryland coach Brenda Frese is 7-7 in her first season with the Terps, 64-37 overall in her fourth season as a head coach.
Noteworthy: WFU??s 65-47 win over Maryland at home last season (also in the Annex) was its largest margin of victory over an ACC opponent in 13 seasons.
Up Next: Wake Forest makes its second trip in a week to the Triangle to face a nationally-ranked team, visiting top-ranked Duke on Thursday, Jan. 16 at 7:00 p.m.
Wake Forest Hosts Maryland In ACC Action At The Annex
After suffering its worst defeat of the season, the Demon Deacons return home in search of a win against Maryland on Sunday, Jan.12 at 2:00 p.m. at the Joel Coliseum Annex.
The Demon Deacons dropped to 10-3, 1-2 in the ACC with an 86-56 loss at ninth-ranked North Carolina in their last outing. It was the most points scored on WFU this season while tying their lowest offensive output of the year.
Maryland comes into Sunday??s tilt with an even 7-7 record and an identical 1-2 league mark. The Terrapins defeated Georgia Tech, 71-63, but have dropped conference games against NC State and most recently, Clemson.
Under sixth-year head coach Charlene Curtis, Wake Forest is looking to continue its steady improvement of the last few years. The Deacons posted a 12-16 record last year, their best mark in six seasons, and are already over three-fourths of the way to reaching that win total this season.
WFU Launches Three-Point Attack on Breast Cancer
On Sunday, Jan. 12, Wake Forest will host Maryland in an ACC contest at the Joel Coliseum Annex (2:00 p.m.). In that game, the Demon Deacons will be launching a ??three-point attack?? on breast cancer. Fans are invited to pledge donations ($10 or more) to match each three-point shot made in the contest. All proceeds will go to Friends ... You Can Count On, a local non-profit organization dedicated to funding research for the earlier detection of breast cancer. The Demon Deacon squad will also be recognizing local cancer survivors in a pre-game ceremony. For tickets and more information, contact (336) 758-3322.
Last Outing: Tar Heels Top Wake Forest
In what was its most disappointing showing of the season, Wake Forest got behind early and could never come back in an 86-56 loss to ninth-ranked North Carolina in Chapel Hill on Thursday.
Wake Forest shot just 25.3 percent (20-of-79) from the field and 45.5 percent (10-of-22) from the free throw line, both season lows. Meanwhile, North Carolina??s 86 points were the most scored on the Deacs this season. The Tar Heels also pulled down 60 rebounds, the most by a Deacon opponent since Virginia tallied 65 on Jan. 22, 1992.
A bright spot for the Deacs was the play of Heather Miller. The senior forward gave a strong effort in 18 minutes off the bench, scoring eight points and tying her career high with eight rebounds. Also in reserve action, freshman guard Cotelia Bond-Young tied a game high with 14 points.
Scouting Maryland
Maryland, under new head coach Brenda Frese, enters Sunday??s game with a 7-7 record and a 1-2 ACC mark.
Maryland??s season started off streaky, as the Terps opened with three consecutive wins before dropping four straight. Following that was another three-game win streak. Over the last four contests, UM has gone 1-3, with the lone win a 71-63 victory over Georgia Tech.
Senior guard Renneika Razor leads the Terps with 16.1 points per game. Razor also ranks second in the ACC in steals (3.9 spg). Not far behind is junior center Delvona Oliver, a transfer from Cincinnati State Technical and Community College. After becoming eligible to play in late December, Oliver is currently scoring 15.8 points and pulling down a team-high 7.2 rebounds a contest. Senior Terri Daniels is third on the squad in scoring (9.5 ppg) and ranks third in the league in assists (4.6 apg).
As a team, Maryland is posting comparable numbers to Wake Forest in assists (17.7 to WFU??s 17.2), blocks (3.1 to 3.5) and steals (11.9 to 10.8).
The Series With the Terrapins
Maryland holds a 40-11 lead in a series which began in the 1976-77 season, although the series is just 5-4 in Maryland??s favor over the last nine meetings ... the Terrapins opened the series by winning the first 14 meetings, the longest winning streak between the two teams ... Wake Forest has actually fared better on the road against Maryland, as the Terps have won 20 of 23 meetings in Winston-Salem ... Wake??s longest winning streak is four games, from 1994-96 ... Wake??s Charlene Curtis owns a 4-8 record against the Terrapins ... Maryland coach Brenda Frese is facing the Demon Deacons for the first time as a head coach.
Deacon-Terp Connections
Five Wake Forest players -- Meredith Bell (Waldorf), Cotelia Bond-Young (Landover), Keila Evans (Baltimore), Erin Ferrell (Gaithersburg) and Sandi James (Columbia) all hail from the state of Maryland ... combining the two rosters, 11 players from the state of Maryland are involved with Sunday??s game ... Maryland senior Brie Jackson attended The Bullis School, the same school Ferrell attended ... Jackson was coached there by Ferrell??s father, Wayne.
The Last Meeting with Maryland ... March 1, 2002
Wake Forest battled back from a 20-point deficit, but ran out of time and saw its season come to an end at the hands of Maryland. The Terps defeated the Deacs 72-66 in the first round of the ACC Tournament in Greensboro. The Terps led 29-26 at the break and went on a 25-2 run to start the second half. Wake came back to get as close as seven points, 59-66, with 1:35 remaining but that was as close as it would get. Tonia Brown led the Deacs with 11 points and scored one three-pointer, breaking the school record for three-pointers in a season (62).
A Balanced Scoring Attack
Last season, guard Tonia Brown was the Deacons?? leading scorer with 13.9 points per game -- and she was the only WFU player in double figures. This year, she??s averaging 11.7 points per game, but she??s also getting a lot more help with offensive production. Look at these numbers:
* Three players are averaging doubles figures in scoring, including Brown, Eafton Hill (12. ppg) and Cotelia Bond-Young (11.8).
* A fourth player, Tiffani Listenbee, is averaging 8.8 ppg after putting up double figures in five of the last eight outings.
* Ten of the 14 active members of the roster have posted at least one double-figure scoring game this season. Five have posted at least five such games.
* Twice this season -- versus High Point and Virginia -- the Deacons have had five players with double figures in points.
Another Three-Point Note
Going into the Jan. 2 Florida State game, Wake Forest had scored at least two three-pointers in 54 consecutive games, dating back to an 0-of-10 performance from beyond the arc at Duke on Jan. 2, 2001 -- exactly two years to the date. The Deacs connected on just one three-pointer against the Seminoles. WFU still owns a streak, however, of 57 consecutive games with at least one three-pointer.
Bond-Young: ACC Freshman Scoring Leader
Wake Forest rookie Cotelia Bond-Young is currently the ACC??s top scoring freshman with 11.8 points per game, a mark that also ranks second on the Deacon squad and 14th among all league players. Her 27 three-pointers this season also ranks first in the ACC in three-pointers per game (2.08).
Bond-Young has quickly proven to be a solid all-around player, as she also ranks among the league??s leaders in assists (14th), field-goal percentage (13th) and assist-to-turnover ratio (7th).
Only three ACC freshman rank among the league??s top 30 scorers, including Bond-Young, 17th-place La??Tangela Atkinson of UNC (11.8 ppg) and Mistie Bass of Duke (19th with 10.7 ppg). In ACC games only, Bond-Young is the only freshman putting up double-figures in scoring.
