"I've watched Chol the last three years and I can't say enough about him as both a person and a basketball player," Maryland coach Mark Turgeon said in a statement.
After five seasons with the Phoenix Suns, who made him the No. 5 pick in the 2013 NBA draft, former Maryland center Alex Len is trying to restart his career in Atlanta.
After spending most of his first two NBA seasons buried on the bench with the Portland Trail Blazers, former Maryland standout Jake Layman has found his role as a key reserve and sometimes starter for one of the Western Conference's top teams.
With Bruno Fernando in foul trouble and then on the bench after fouling out, freshman Jalen Smith kept Maryland from blowing all of its 22-point lead in Tuesday's season-opening win over Delaware.
Maryland guard Kevin Huerter went from being a fringe NBA prospect after his sophomore year to a first-round pick at No. 19 overall by the Atlanta Hawks in Thursday night's NBA draft.
Maryland sophomore guard Kevin Huerter and freshman center Bruno Fernando have until May 30 to decide whether to keep their names in the NBA draft or return to College Park.
For the first three games of his rookie season, and the first 40 minutes of the fourth, Jake Layman was no more than a paid spectator. That changed Tuesday.
Mark Turgeon is rewarded for taking the Maryland men’s basketball team to back-to-back NCAA tournaments, including the first trip to the Sweet 16 since 2003.
Last week's addition of small forward Justin Jackson to Maryland's 2016 recruiting class helped the Terps jump dramatically in rankings. A composite of several
As a child, Alex Len was a gymnast. Then he grew a lot and moved on to basketball, first at Maryland and now with the NBA's Phoenix Suns. Maybe for his third
Maryland sophomore point guard Melo Trimble will declare for the NBA draft but not hire an agent, while freshman center Diamond Stone plans to hire an agent.
That doesn't mean Trimble, Stone and Carter won't join seniors Jake Layman and Rasheed Sulaimon at the NBA's open combines and closed-door workouts that take place before the NBA draft in late June.
When Maryland freshman Diamond Stone scored 16 points off the bench in his team¿s recent win over Connecticut in the Jimmy V Classic, it pushed the 6-11 center into double figures for his season average.
On Wednesday, Melo Trimble was named the Big Ten Preseason Player of the Year. On Thursday, the Terps were voted the nation's No. 3 team the USA Today Coaches Poll.
Ivan Bender has spent the past seven months at the University of Maryland quietly trying to restart a basketball career that was interrupted twice in the last two years — each time after the 6-9, 230-pound forward tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee.
Should the Maryland men's basketball team make the quantum leap from surprising Big Ten upstart last winter to national championship contender in the upcoming season, much of the success will be traced to what Kyle Tarp has done with the Terps over the past year.
Former Maryland star Dez Wells, who hoped to use the NBA Summer League with the Washington Wizards as a showcase to earning an invitation to training camp this fall, will not play with the team in Las Vegas because of a badly sprained thumb suffered last week during team workouts.
Baltimore¿s Donnell Whittenburg finished in fourth place in the preliminary all-around rankings Saturday to qualify for the finals at the Pan American Games in Toronto.
On Wednesday night at Chicago's United Center, Stone will join Melo Trimble as the second Terps commit to play in the McDonald's All-American Game in as many years.
In recognition of 70 years of dunking in college basketball, Maryland's athletic website put up a poll earlier this month asking fans to vote on the best dunk in Terps history.
Baltimore Sun reporter takes a look at five things to watch during the No. 14 Terps' game against No. 5 Wisconsin in men's basketball at Xfinity Center. Tipoff is set for 7 p.m.
When No. 16 Maryland takes the court Tuesday against No. 5 Wisconsin, the Terps will have moved past their offseason soap opera to a place unfamiliar under Turgeon: national prominence.
The Blast suffered its first loss of the Major Arena Soccer League season Friday night, falling, 5-4 in overtime, to the host Las Vegas Legends at Orleans Arena.
One of Mark Turgeon's biggest concerns as his Maryland men's basketball team struggled on the road at Ohio State and Indiana was its lack of production ¿ and at times effort ¿ from the big men.
Maryland¿s emergence as one of the nation¿s top college basketball teams amid an unexpectedly-quick turnaround has landed a few players on NBA mock draft boards.
Dustin Clark took Cekovsky with him to Thanksgiving dinner Thursday at the new Montgomery County home Maryland coach Mark Turgeon and his family moved into this week.
If the first three games of his college career have been akin to an early semester quiz in his all-day English class, then the next two will be the first big test for Maryland freshman Michal Cekovsky.
Given the redemptive mindset of Maryland men's basketball coach Mark Turgeon and many of his players going into tonight's season opener against Wagner at Xfinity Center, it seems fitting that the Terps worked more on their rebounding than any other area in practice this week.
A proposed policy that would require teams to reach academic benchmarks before their coaches and athletic directors can cash in on performance-based bonuses has drawn mixed reviews.
