Women’s basketball: Theriot earns Big Ten preseason honor

The team is unveiled ahead of the conference’s annual media day on Thursday in Chicago. Layman and Trimble both made the 10-player preseason All-Big Ten team.

“As a coach you look forward to the team you have in front of you, and you don’t necessarily look back”, Jordan said. Coming into the season we did talk about the fact that it’s not on this current team’s shoulders to feel the pressure day-in and day-out of not going to the NCAA Tournament. Really like my guys. It’s a very exciting event and signals the official start to the college basketball season. “I tell you, I don’t know where they graduated from, but it’s a heck of an idea”.

COACH BEILEIN: As you know, it is painful to go through that. We’ve challenged our guys.

“I think Purdue will be a factor in who wins the Big Ten”, Shields said. It goes in cycles.

The Terrapins – unbeaten in conference play and a 2014-15 NCAA Tournament semifinalist – return three starters and add two freshmen who were McDonald’s All-Americans. So expectations change quickly. We might have more fans in Iowa with the number of people that we’ll be bringing. No. We have a lot of gap to make up with this young team.

But just as is the case almost every season, Maryland’s charge to the league crown will not go untested. This marks the second straight year LeVert has been a preseason all-conference selection. Previous year was Aaron White’s team, no question about that, even with Gabe and Josh. “I wasn’t really expecting that after one season”. “Did I see 28 [wins]?” Did I see Diamond Stone coming to Maryland?

Joining Trimble in the backcourt will be Duke graduate transfer Rasheed Sulaimon, a senior shooting guard who, Turgeon said, “can flat-out defend”. No, I didn’t see that happening.

The Terrapins are candidates to win a national title, but Turgeon said the team’s schedule is daunting.

You know, we’re going to be led this year by our veterans, which will be our four seniors. We’ve got talent. We’ve got character. looking forward to it.

“That’s OK, we’ve just got to prove people wrong”, said Powers, who earned All-America honors as a sophomore and should be ready for the season despite recent foot soreness. So we’ve been good.

Didn’t need to. Everyone knows it’s Maryland. It’s an unbelievable place.

“Our program is saying, “We’re here, we’re here, basketball lives here, ‘ ” Chambers said”. So we’re going to determine that out, and it is great to have depth.

Q. Coach, is there a clearly defined leader on the team right now?

Coaches remained split Thursday on the necessity, and impact, of those changes. He’s done that. His work habits have become a little bit better since he’s been there. I think Adam is in the best shape of his life. Those are things he’d really improved since he’s been there.