No. 1-ranked Maryland women’s lacrosse (17-0, 6-0 Big Ten) will take on No. 25 Penn State (8-8, 3-3 Big Ten) on Friday to kick off the 2019 Big Ten tournament.
Both teams played against each other in the Big Ten final last season, as well as in the 2017 Final Four. In a road matchup at Penn State this march Cold and windy conditions took some getting used to, but Maryland ultimately came out victorious, 17-6.
“The competition that we’ve had with Penn State, there’s so much history,” head coach Cathy Reese said. “We’ve played them in the national semifinal in ‘17, we’ve had [them] in the Big Ten tournament, there’s just a lot of history between the two programs.