The 2023-24 season has been an unfamiliar experience for Maryland women’s basketball.
But it’s not different from just last year, or the year before that. It’s different from nearly every single year that head coach Brenda Frese has been at the helm of the program — where she’s been for 22 years.
This year’s squad is certainly not a bad team, but it is also not an elite one — words seldom said about a program that has won five conference titles in the past decade and came within 40 minutes of advancing to the Final Four last season.