A unique double team.
Brenda Frese gazes intently from a high-backed executive chair on the sideline at Comcast Center, her stillness completely belying her typical approach to working with the Maryland women's basketball team. The stomping, the frequent chatter, the kinetic approach to coaching — it's all submerged, replaced with silent-yet-still-furious scribbling of mental notes. She wears a black T-shirt and keeps her hands near her burgeoning belly, every now and then softly caressing it while watching Crystal Langhorne's clockwork post moves or Kristi Toliver precisely run a play. And then comes the most un-Frese-like moment of all. A yawn. Just before 2 p.m. With more than 30 minutes left in a practice the day before a conference game against Miami. No one has a better excuse for midafternoon exhaustion than Frese, who is 35 weeks pregnant with twins. She still is regularly around the Terrapins, remarkably active for a woman who will give birth in less than a month.
Women's hoops, and nothin' but the hoops.
