{"id":615172,"date":"2026-04-30T11:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T11:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/615172\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T11:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T11:48:08","slug":"mm-4-30-alyssa-thomas-phoenix-mercury-demolish-japanese-national-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/615172\/","title":{"rendered":"MM 4.30: Alyssa Thomas, Phoenix Mercury demolish Japanese national team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The WNBA preseason has just begun, but former Maryland women\u2019s basketball great Alyssa Thomas already looks to be in pure midseason form.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Thomas and the Phoenix Mercury faced off against the Japanese national team \u2014 yes, THE Japanese national team \u2014 in an exhibition game Wednesday, and the Mercury came away with an 86-60 win. With more than 7,000 fans in attendance, Thomas put on a clinic, finishing with eight points, six rebounds and a whopping nine assists across 26 minutes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The WNBA\u2019s single-season triple-double record holder looks like she has a chance of rebreaking her own record before her 13th professional season even tips off. Considering eight points, five rebounds and seven assists came in her 16 first-half minutes, Thomas appears set to continue dominating the stat sheet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Maryland tennis is on its way to the NCAA Tournament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Maryland women\u2019s basketball has the seventh-best freshman class in the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Maryland football extended an offer to four-star class of 2028 athlete Jakye Beard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Terps also extended an offer to four-star class of 2028 defensive back Tyler Boyd.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Maryland commit class of 2028 running back Jerome Larue was upgraded to a 4-star prospect.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Former Terp Matt Shaw went yard for the Cubs and earned the deciding run in a 5-4 victory over the Padres on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Former Maryland men\u2019s basketball player Darius Adams committed to North Carolina State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The WNBA preseason has just begun, but former Maryland women\u2019s basketball great Alyssa Thomas already looks to be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,125305,434],"class_list":["post-615172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-sports","tag-the-maryland-minute","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}