As the North Carolina A&T shot ricocheted off the rim and backboard Monday night at Xfinity Center, a tangle of arms and hands belonging to the Aggies tried to tap it into the basket as their Maryland counterparts pursued the defensive rebound. It seemed as if there were so many involved that nobody...
After a one-point win over Oklahoma State two years ago, Maryland coach Mark Turgeon was asked about his team making just four of 22 shots from 3-point range and whether that was an invitation for future opponents to play zone against the Terps. “Zone us. Please zone us,” Turgeon said. Even against...
Maryland Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller, one of the University of Maryland’s leading boosters, said Wednesday that “there’s fault everywhere around” for the developments that led to the ouster of football coach DJ Durkin and the resignation of the chairman of the university system’s Board...
Anthony McFarland Jr. wore a red beanie with a Maryland logo on his head and a blank look on his face. Sitting in the visiting media room at Memorial Stadium after Saturday’s 34-32 loss to Indiana, Maryland’s redshirt freshman running back remembered what his father often told him while he was...
Maryland basketball coach Mark Turgeon acknowledged he was starting to wonder. His team arrived at Alumni Hall on Friday night as a prohibitive favorite to defeat the Midshipmen of Navy, but the Terps certainly didn’t look like one until the final 14 minutes of their 78-57 victory in the fifth...
The on-again, off-again questions about DJ Durkin’s job status have been answered in relation to Maryland’s 2018 season. The on-again, off-again offense for the Terps remains. Going into Saturday’s road game at Indiana, Maryland will be playing a team on the brink of a free-fall, the Hoosiers having...
Maryland interim coach and offensive coordinator Matt Canada does not seem to be the nostalgic type, much more wrapped up in the present than the past. Nor does he seem consumed with his uncertain future. It has served him well throughout his coaching career, in particular this season as he has...
The heavily favored Maryland men’s basketball team looked like it was going to raise the self-esteem of another nonconference opponent Friday night, but the Terps finally put a stubborn Navy team in its place. Anthony Cowan Jr. led all scorers with 24 points and Bruno Fernando grabbed 10 rebounds...
More than three decades later, Derrick Lewis acknowledges that he and his Maryland teammates took their opponent in the second round of the 1985 NCAA tournament a little too lightly. Even though the Naval Academy was located 30 miles from College Park, Lewis didn't think the Terps had much of an...
As a rabid basketball fan, John McNamara embraced the Veterans Classic. McNamara wholeheartedly supported the event created by Navy head coach Ed DeChellis because it brought big-time basketball to Annapolis. To further support the Veterans Classic, McNamara covered the opening game in 2015, 2016...
Even before last Saturday’s game against Michigan State, this has not been the easiest of seasons for Maryland running back Ty Johnson. There was the tragic death of teammate Jordan McNair in mid-June. There was third-year coach DJ Durkin being placed on administrative leave in August, and fired...
Former Maryland coach reflects on the '02 title team, talks about where it fit into history, and discusses the Terps' chances of winning another national championship