LADY VOL HOOPS CENTRAL: Maryland

March 27, 2014

(1) TENNESSEE VS. (4) MARYLAND

NCAA Sweet 16 | March 30, 2014 | Noon ET

KFC Yum! Center | Louisville, Ky.

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NCAA SWEET 16 TIP-OFF

No. #3/3 Tennessee (29-5), the No. 1 seed in the Louisville Regional, has advanced to the Sweet 16 in the 2014 NCAA Women's Basketball Championship.
The Lady Vols will face No. 4 seed #11/9 Maryland (26-6) at noon on ESPN in the first regional semifinal game on Sunday, March 30, in the KFC Yum! Center in Louisville, Ky.
Tennessee is appearing in its fifth-straight and 32nd overall NCAA Sweet 16, while Maryland moved on for the 11th time in history and the third year in a row.
No. 3 seed and host #4/4 Louisville (32-4) will face No. 7 seed LSU (21-12) in the other regional semifinal match-up at 2:30 p.m. ET on Sunday (ESPN2).
The winners of Sunday's contests will advance to the Elite Eight and play in the Louisville Regional final on Tues., April 1, at 7 p.m. ET, for a berth in the NCAA Final Four in Nashville, April 6 & 8.
The Lady Vols enter Sunday's tilt vs. the Terrapins on a nine-game winning streak and are victors in 15 of their past 16 games.
Tennessee advanced to its 32nd NCAA Sweet 16 by defeating No. 16 seed Northwestern (La.) State in the first round, 70-46, and No. 8 seed St. John's in the second round, 67-51, in games played on March 22 and 24 in Knoxville.

Maryland enters its game with Tennessee on a two-game winning streak and has been victorious in six of its last seven games.
The Terrapins punched their ticket to Louisville by rolling past Army, 90-52, and holding off Texas, 69-64, in NCAA First and Second Round games played in College Park, Md., on March 23 and 25.
The Lady Vols have produced a 26-5 record all-time in their previous 31 trips to the regional semifinal round.
This will be the 14th meeting between Tennessee and Maryland (UT leads 10-3), but these schools have gone seven complete seasons without playing one another in women's basketball.
The Terps and Lady Vols last played on Nov. 26, 2005, with (then) #2/1 UT claiming an 80-75 victory over #10/10 Maryland at the Paradise Jam tournament in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands.
UT is 3-1 in postseason action, going 2-1 vs. Maryland in the AIAW Tournament and 1-0 in the NCAA Tournament.
Tennessee and Maryland have not met in NCAA tourney play since March 31, 1989, when #1/1 UT toppled #5/3 Maryland, 77-65, in an NCAA Final Four semifinal game in Tacoma, Wash. The Lady Vols went on to defeat Auburn in the title game to claim their second national championship.

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