Gameday preview: Gophers women's basketball at Maryland

February 28, 2016 at 5:27AM

Gophers women's gameday

4 P.M. at No. 6 Maryland • ESPN2, 1500-AM

Gophers (19-9, 11-6): The Gophers close out the regular season with their third consecutive game against a Top 25 team. They are looking for their 20th win and their first-ever win against Maryland. They are 0-3 against the Terrapins. … Jessie Edwards is averaging 8.7 rebounds in her past seven games. Her 12 rebounds against Ohio State on Wednesday was a Big Ten career high. … The Gophers have scored 90 or points 10 times this season and 100 or more five times. … The Gophers are averaging 83.9 points per game.

Maryland (26-3, 15-2): A victory would give the Terrapins the outright Big Ten regular-season title and the No. 1 seed for the conference tournament. If they lose, they would share the title with Ohio State and drop to the No. 2 seed. … Maryland's only two league losses this season have come against Ohio State. … Its big three are Shatori Walker-Kimbrough (19.6 ppg, 64-for-110 from three-point range), Brionna Jones (15.3 ppg, 9.6 rpg) and Brene Moseley (11.6, 6.1 apg). … Maryland is second in the nation in field accuracy (50 percent) and first in three-point accuracy (42.2 percent). Jones leads the country in field-goal percentage (67.2).

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