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Defending Big Ten champion Terrapins travel to South Carolina for Dec. 12 matchup on ESPN.

By World Exposure Report News Service, 08/04/21, 4:00PM CDT

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ROSEMONT, Ill. — Three-time defending Big Ten Conference women’s basketball champion Maryland has been selected to compete in the 2021 Jimmy V Classic, it was announced Wednesday. The Terrapins will travel to South Carolina Dec. 12 to take on the Gamecocks in a 3 p.m. (ET) game that will be televised nationally on ESPN as the nightcap of a Jimmy V Classic doubleheader, with Kentucky visiting Louisville in the opener.

Maryland and South Carolina have split their four previous meetings, with the Gamecocks winning the most recent encounter, 63-54 on Nov. 10, 2019, at the XFINITY Center in College Park, Md. The Terrapins won the last time the teams played in Columbia, S.C., taking an 85-61 victory on Nov. 18, 2018, at Colonial Life Arena.

Maryland is the first current Big Ten women’s basketball program selected for the Jimmy V Classic since 2012, when the Terrapins visited UConn. This will mark Maryland’s third appearance in the event, having also participated in 2007. That year, the Terrapins faced off with another current Big Ten member, Rutgers, in what was the second of four consecutive years (2006-09) the Scarlet Knights not only appeared in, but also played host to, the Jimmy V Classic. RU won the last three of those games against Maryland, Georgia and Florida, respectively.

In addition, Purdue played in the second annual Jimmy V Classic in 2003 in Raleigh, N.C., taking on Duke. That was also the second game of a doubleheader, a format that continued through 2004 before changing to a single-game event from 2005 through 2020.

The Jimmy V Classic is one of the cornerstones of ESPN’s annual “V Week” initiative, designed to raise money and awareness for the V Foundation for Cancer Research, which was founded in 1993 by the late legendary men’s basketball coach and broadcaster Jim Valvano.

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