Maryland, USC, Syracuse Among Those On Outside Looking in
Posted on | March 16, 2010 |
Filed under: Women’s Basketball
In the end, coach Brenda Frese had no excuses and didn’t offer any for her Maryland team, which, one season removed from a top seed and an Elite Eight appearance, failed to get an NCAA tournament bid when the draw was announced Monday.
Granted, the Terps (19-12) lost 4,000 points of offense, when Kristi Toliver and Marissa Coleman graduated from last year’s team, but Maryland did itself no favors by finishing ninth in the Atlantic Coast Conference with a 5-9 league mark.
“From our end the only ones to blame is us in terms of not being able to see things through,” said Frese last night. “At the same point, with this young team, to be able to grow and develop like they did and win 19 games and still have an opportunity to play in postseason in the WNIT is a chance for us to continue to practice and develop.”
The 10-member NCAA women’s basketball committee made interesting choices across the nation in distributing 33 at-large bids.
The panel extended two of the last bids to Green Bay (27-4) of the Horizon League and to Arkansas-Little Rock (26-6) of the Sun Belt, while leaving out such notable teams as Southern California (19-12), Syracuse (22-10), Boston College (17-15) and Wake Forest (18-13).
Jane Meyer, the senior women’s administrator and chair of the women’s basketball committee, said Green Bay and Arkansas-Little Rock, which received its first ever bid, were singled out for their willingness to schedule tough teams and their success against those schedules.
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