This afternoon at the Terrapin women’s basketball team’s first full practice after its too-close-for-comfort overtime win at Virginia Tech on Monday, I separately asked Crystal Langhorne and Kristi Toliver if they had any further comment on Monday’s game after letting it sink in for a couple of days.
Toliver decided to take the “We got a win and that’s all that matters” road, and did so with a straight face, but Langhorne gave a response that was closer to what I was expecting.
“It was just an ugly game,” Langhorne said, shaking her head. “For us to play so bad and still win speaks a lot about our team, but it was very disappointing how we came out and played.”
I half-jokingly told coach Brenda Frese that she missed an exciting game Monday, but the pregnant coach didn’t seem to appreciate my humor.
“I watched it on TV,” Frese said. “That was enough.”
It’s hard to blame the usually-jovial Frese for being a bit irritated today. Frese stopped traveling to all road games more than a month ago, and during home games and practices she is mostly confined to her large computer chair that is brought down from her office. After standing up to give two short interviews after practice today, she decided it would be best to sit down again for a third.
While Frese’s due date is officially March 11, the unofficial word around the team is that labor may be induced by the end of February if she has not delivered by then.
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