There\u2019s plenty to build on from the Terps\u2019 24-9 campaign in 2025-26, which saw Maryland earn its 33rd NCAA Tournament appearance in program history. With a strong returning core and an influx of new talent, the Terps are eager to carry last season\u2019s momentum into another run together.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe excitement for this year comes from building on the foundation that we laid last year,\u201d Oluchi Okananwa said. \u201cWe have a lot of talent. We\u2019re hungry. We\u2019re athletic. There\u2019s just so much excitement because playing with each other is so fun.\u201d<\/p>\n
Okananwa is one of four returning pieces that saw considerable playing time in 2025-26, along with Addi Mack, Rainey Welson and Marya Boiko. Those four combined for over 2,400 minutes on the floor last season, and are keen for another season in red, black and gold.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m really excited to have gained so much experience last year,\u201d Mack said. \u201cThat\u2019s going to be really beneficial for me. We have a great group of girls this year, and it\u2019s been fun to see how much we\u2019ve grown throughout the summer.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There\u2019s plenty to build on from the Terps\u2019 24-9 campaign in 2025-26, which saw Maryland earn its 33rd…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":942597,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-942596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=942596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/942597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=942596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=942596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=942596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}