Sitting in a spacious home theater, Frese, her husband and his parents watched Maryland rout Boston
College. Watching a road game is like movie night for the Freses. There is a marquee in front of the entrance to the theater showing the game of the night. Underneath the billboard is an old-fashioned popcorn machine.

A giant Maryland basketball rug guides the audience into the room that features a huge screen. Since
women’s basketball doesn’t have the same television package as the men not every game can be seen on TV. Fortunately, the Atlantic Coast Conference broadcasts its non-televised games live on the net.

It isn’t easy for Frese to watch the Terrapins from afar, but doctors advised her not to travel anymore because of the pregnancy. Luckily, the sixth-year coach has a senior-laden squad only two years removed from a national championship.

“It’s different because we have a veteran team,” the 37-year-old Frese said. “They’ve been through it so I have the utmost confidence in them.”

The team has gotten used to not having their pregnant coach on the road.

“Once we get here we have to get focused on the game,” Maryland senior Laura Harper said. “We know she’ll be there when we get back. We need Coach B to take care of her babies.”

There was no communication between Frese and her staff during the game. The team traveled to Boston on Wednesday and she talked to them that night and Thursday.

“We talked to her this morning,” said interim coach Daron Park, who fills in for Frese on the road. “She wanted to go over a couple things we did in practice yesterday. It was pretty brief. I shot her a quick text message right before we came to the gym to tell her we were near Boston College.”

But once they arrived at the arena, Frese was left to be a fan like anyone else. She was very calm sitting on the sofa in a Maryland sweat shirt watching the game. She rarely raised her voice at the screen and cheered on every good play by her team.

Thanks to the ACC Select, the Freses were able to watch Thursday night’s game on the Internet. Unfortunately, not every nonconference game was available that way. Frese had to miss the Terrapins
trip out West earlier in the season against UC Santa Barbara and UCLA. It was the first time she wasn’t with the team.

Fortunately, the UCLA game was on TV so Frese was able to see her team overcome a 16-point second-half deficit and beat UCLA 79-75.

“There was something I saw in their eyes during a timeout, I knew they would rally,” she said.

She wasn’t so fortunate with the UC Santa Barbara game, which she had to track play by play on the computer.

“Excruciating,” Frese laughed. “Watching it on the Internet was difficult, it wouldn’t refresh fast enough for me.”

Frese is due in March, but expects to have her first children sooner as most twins are delivered a few weeks early. With the Terrapins having a lighter schedule in February, that would be the perfect time according to Frese.

“I’ve talked to a few coaches who have been pregnant while coaching and they’ve offered great advice, but I’m in uncharted territory because none of them have had twins.”

One perk of not being on the road with the team is that Frese can get an early start on prepping for the next game. Once Thursday night’s game ended she started thinking about Monday night’s home showdown against No. 12 Duke.

“It’s great to be able to get a jump on getting ready for them,” she said.

After the win at BC, Frese got ready to head to bed. Not surprisingly, she hasn’t been getting too much sleep lately. Her husband continued his nightly ritual of getting the twins ready for their life ahead by reading them the family’s favorite book: “Overtime is Our Time! the Inside Story of the Maryland Terps’
2006 National Championship.”