EUGENE, Ore. — Sarah Te-Biasu scored a season-high 26 points, Kaylene Smikle added 21 points and nine rebounds and No. 16 Maryland women’s basketball beat Oregon, 79-61, on Thursday night.
Saylor Poffenbarger scored 13 and grabbed 11 rebounds and Allie Kubek scored 11 points for Maryland (18-5, 8-4 Big Ten), which bounced back from a 66-65 last-second loss to Illinois.
Brenda Frese earned her 600th win as Terps coach and had her mother and brother on hand at Matthew Knight Arena after making a cross-country trek.
“I’m just really grateful and thankful. This is a really tough team, and you know the body of work,” Frese said in a postgame interview on Fox Sports 1. “There’s so many great players and coaches and support staff who have been with me. It’s all them that made this possible.”
Kubek made a layup early in the first quarter that gave Maryland the lead for good and sparked a 13-3 run that made it 19-9 at the end of the first quarter. The Terps led by double figures the rest of the way.
Te-Biasu — the Atlantic 10 Player of the Year last season at VCU — hit three 3-pointers and scored 17 points on 7-of-8 shooting in the first half to help the Terps take a 39-22 lead into halftime.
Maryland shot 54% (25 of 46), hit 9 of 20 (45%) attempts from 3-point range and made 20 of 23 (87%) from the free-throw line and limited Oregon to 32% (19 of 59) shooting from the field.
