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Maryland Terrapins women’s hoops coach Brenda Frese came face-to-face pinch defender Oluchi Okananwa successful an aggravated coaching infinitesimal connected Sunday.
Frese and Okananwa came nose-to-nose during nan Terrapins’ 74-66 nonaccomplishment against nan Tar Heels successful nan NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament. Maryland came into nan crippled arsenic nan No. 5 seed, while North Carolina was nan No. 4 seed.
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Maryland Terrapins caput coach Brenda Frese looks connected during nan first half against nan Alabama Crimson Tide astatine Xfinity Center connected March 24, 2025. (Daniel Kucin Jr./Imagn Images)
The longtime caput coach was unhappy pinch Okananwa’s series successful nan 3rd quarter. She turned nan shot over, missed 3 free throws and missed a layup earlier she was subbed disconnected nan floor. Frese met Okananwa connected nan sideline.
"I judge successful you, but you sewage to want this moment," Frese said.
Okananwa scored 21 points, starring nan team. She grabbed six rebounds and notched 2 steals. However, she did extremity up pinch six turnovers.
She told reporters aft nan crippled that she loves nan hard-nosed style of coaching.
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Maryland caput coach Brenda Frese, center, and assistants tie up a play against North Carolina during nan 2nd half successful nan 2nd information of nan NCAA assemblage hoops tournament, Sunday, March 22, 2026, successful Chapel Hill, North Carolina (AP Photo/Chris Seward)
"Coach understands I’m a competitor astatine heart," she said, via The Athletic. "I’ve told her this before, and I’ll support connected telling her this forever. I emotion to beryllium coached hard. That’s what she does pinch maine each azygous day."
Frese has been nan head coach astatine Maryland since nan 2002-03 season. She is 688-208 arsenic caput coach. She besides had stops astatine Ball State and Minnesota.
"It’s ever been a beat that I’ve been capable to person pinch individuals and players," Frese said. "We do, astatine times, person to person those reliable conversations. You can’t person them without a relationship. You’ve sewage to beryllium capable to person that. The champion of nan best, nan elite of nan elite, want to beryllium coached hard.
"At that moment, I watched Oluchi struggle wrong this tournament. She’s conscionable excessively gifted, truthful I wanted to implore really overmuch belief I person successful her and situation her. I cognize what a victor and competitor she is. Just situation her, do you want nan moment? I knew to springiness it a minute, get her backmost in. And you saw she went out, she sewage a bucket, she sewage a steal, and ne'er looked back."
North Carolina defender Taissa Queiroz, left, battles Maryland defender Oluchi Okananwa, right, for nan shot during nan 2nd half successful nan 2nd information of nan NCAA assemblage hoops tournament, Sunday, March 22, 2026, successful Chapel Hill, North Carolina. (AP Photo/Chris Seward)
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It was her first play pinch nan Terrapins aft spending 2 years pinch nan Duke Blue Devils. She vanished nan season, averaging 17.7 points, 5.4 rebounds and 2.1 assists per game. She was an All-Big Ten Conference action during nan 2025-26 season.
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