Maryland women’s basketball’s brass has preached the sentiment of wanting to be peaking by early March. The players and coaching staff have different interpretations of what that looks like, but the second-seeded Terps showed exactly what that is supposed to be in the first round of the NCAA Tournament against No. 15-seed Holy Cross on Friday in College Park.
Maryland got out to a strong first half, dictated the pace the entire length of the game and made converting defense into offense a critical point of the game. All of that resulted in a Maryland clinic, as the Terps defeated the Crusaders, 93-61.