Three years earlier, the Maryland women’s basketball coach had walked off Xfinity Center in defeat, undone in the second round by a Pac-12 team that cared not for the Terps’ higher seed or the thousands of fans who wanted to see Maryland make its seemingly annual pilgrimage to the NCAA tournament’s second round.
On Monday, Frese headed off the court with the scoreboard reading UCLA 85, Maryland 80. The sixth-seeded Bruins were celebrating on the Terps’ logo. The Terps were a third seed now, not the No. 2 seed they had been when No.