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Gary Williams is the coach of the men's basketball team at the University of Maryland. He returned to coach his alma mater in 1989 after successful head coaching tenures at American University, Boston College and Ohio State. Williams guided the Terps to a 10-wi-n improvement in his first season in 1989, the largest in school history. The former Maryland guard he played under coach Bud Millikan 1965-1967 - led the Terps through an NCAA probationary period he inherited and went on to make the NCAA tournament in 1994, his fifth season at Maryland. What followed was a run of success rivaled only by a select few college coaches and programs. The Terps made the NCAA tournament each year from...
Gary Williams is the coach of the men's basketball team at the University of Maryland. He returned to coach his alma mater in 1989 after successful head coaching tenures at American University, Boston College and Ohio State. Williams guided the Terps to a 10-wi-n improvement in his first season in 1989, the largest in school history. The former Maryland guard he played under coach Bud Millikan 1965-1967 - led the Terps through an NCAA probationary period he inherited and went on to make the NCAA tournament in 1994, his fifth season at Maryland. What followed was a run of success rivaled only by a select few college coaches and programs. The Terps made the NCAA tournament each year from 1994-2004, a streak matched by only five other coaches. Returning Maryland to prominence, Williams and the Terps made Cole Field House and Comcast Center - their current arena - among the toughest opposing venues in college basketball during that time. Williams' crowning achievement was the 2002 season that saw Maryland win a school-record 32 games and the Atlantic Coast Conference title during the regular season. One year after losing in a national semifinal game, Williams led the Terps back to the Final Four and ultimately defeated Indiana in the title game to claim the national championship. In doing so, he joined a select group of coaches who have guided their alma maters to a national title. Entering the 2007-08 season, Williams, the Terps' all-time winningest head coach, had compiled a 378-200 record in 18 seasons at Maryland. Entering '07-'08, he had a 585-328 overall record in 29 seasons as a Division I collegiate head coach. Williams was born on March 4, 1945, in Collingswood, N.J.
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Maryland pumped for exhibition Tuesday
After a series of intrasquad scrimmages, Maryland's basketball team finally plays tonight against somebody other than itself.
The exhibition game against Indiana University of Pennsylvania at Comcast Center gives Terps fans their first opportunity to...Tags: Comcast Center, Florida State University, Teaching and Learning, Maryland Terrapins, Indiana University
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Maryland cruises in exhibition win
- It was just an exhibition game, but Maryland still supplied drama Tuesday night worthy of the regular season.
Most of the evening's compelling story lines came before the Terps made 10 of their first 11 shots in dispatching Indiana (Pa.), 75-54....Tags: Teaching and Learning, Maryland Terrapins
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Terps coach Williams feeling confident, 'vindicated'
On the wall of the Maryland men's basketball office, hanging near portraits of this year's three senior players, is a new, framed cover of Lindy's magazine ranking the Terrapins ninth among the decade's top programs. Gary Williams, who is entering his...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Budgets and Budgeting, Trips and Vacations, Government Debt, Florida State University
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Maryland picked fifth in ACC
- Before the Atlantic Coast Conference men's basketball preseason votes were released last year, Maryland's Greivis Vasquez already had a good idea how it was going to turn out. With everything North Carolina had returning, there wasn't much suspense in...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Virginia Tech, Florida State University, Maryland Terrapins, NFL Preseason
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State Football Games This Weekend
Today Merrimack (5-3, 4-2 NE-10) at Southern Connecticut (5-3, 5-1), 7 p.m.: Northeast-10 rushing leader Anthony Smalls (139.1 average) was suspended for last week's 41-13 loss to AIC, and QB James Suozzo threw 5 INTs. It's unclear if Smalls will be...Tags: Robert Morris, Ivy League, David McCarty
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Burney to miss 2009-10 because of foot injuries
Junior forward Jerome Burney won't play this season because of continuing foot problems, the team announced in a news release. Burney, 6 feet 9 and 222 pounds, has missed most of the past three seasons with foot injuries. He averaged 0.9 of a point and 1.... -
UM freshman Williams' assault trial next week
Jordan Williams, the University of Maryland's prize 6-foot-10, 245-pound basketball freshman, is due in court next week to answer assault charges in his hometown of Torrington, Conn.
Williams and four other defendants, all between the ages of 16 and 19,...Tags: Punishment, Air and Space Accidents, Prosecution, Defendants, Trials
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Maryland counting on young forwards
When the 2008-09 season ended, Maryland men's basketball coach Gary Williams couldn't help but think ahead to when his undersized team would have enough height to compete "two feet over the rim."
That time has arrived -- or so Williams hopes.
Maryland...Tags: Comcast Center, Teaching and Learning, Maryland Terrapins
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Terps start the 'Madness'
The opponents will come soon enough.
On Friday night, the University of Maryland and its fans celebrated the game of basketball -- and the band, the cheerleaders and itself -- as the men's and women's teams kicked off practices for a new season with a...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Philosophy, National Collegiate Athletic Association, Comcast Center, Under Armour Inc.
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Terps Madness
The opponents will come soon enough.
On Friday night, the University of Maryland and its fans celebrated the game of basketball - and the band, the cheerleaders and itself - as the men's and women's teams kicked off practices for a new season with a...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Philosophy, National Collegiate Athletic Association, Comcast Center, Under Armour Inc.
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Case against Maryland's Jordan Williams dropped
Misdemeanor assault and breach-of-peace charges against Jordan Williams, Maryland's 6-foot-10, 245-pound basketball freshman, were dropped Monday in court in Bantam, Conn.
Williams, 18, and four other young people had been arrested last month after an...Tags: Assault, Lawyers, Juvenile Delinquency, Trials
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Heise was with Maryland, 'win or lose'
Jack Heise's final letter arrived in Maryland football coach Ralph Friedgen's office on Wednesday, two days after Mr. Heise's death.
Mr. Friedgen fought back his emotions as he read it, hardly believing that Mr. Heise - a longtime Terrapins benefactor,...Tags: Radio Industry, Colleges and Universities, Trips and Vacations, Ralph Friedgen, Charity
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