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He spent the past four seasons as an assistant under Jerod Haase, who left to take over the Stanford program.

Former Maryland men's basketball coach Gary Williams and current Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski are probably still close friends, but it's preferable to live in a

It has been an uneven season for Maryland, a preseason top-five team with the potential to dazzle and disappoint, often in the course of one game. But before a national TV audience, the Terps can extend their season, and maybe prove themselves worthy of the hype and hope so many fans held for them.

Jim Nantz is heading down the home stretch of another remarkable run behind the play-by-play microphone for CBS Sports.

The last time Maryland reached the Sweet 16 was in 2003, a year after its only national championship.

Here's what you need to know about the Maryland men's basketball team's NCAA tournament game against Hawaii on Sunday.

Mark Turgeon has often talked in the past about what happened to future Hall of Fame coach Gary Williams and Maryland six years ago in Spokane. What has gone virtually ignored is what also happened to Turgeon and his team at Texas A&M.

Nearly a quarter-century after he finished his Maryland career starring for a team not permitted to play in the NCAA tournament, Walt Williams will make his March Madness debut Friday in Spokane, Wash.

Several coaches who've watched the league closely — including one Hall of Famer who's coached in the league and one who has taken his lumps coaching in it the past two years — were surprised by some of the Big Ten teams' seedings.

Lefty Driesell will find out Friday if he will become a finalist for the third time after making it that far in 2003, the year he retired from coaching. Should that happen, he will learn during this year's Final Four if he finally gets in.

Eighteen months after the University of Maryland's jump to the Big Ten, the conference's television network is eagerly trying to make Terps fans feel more at home in their sprawling new neighborhood — an Illinois-based league with deep Midwestern roots.

In Episode 3 of "The Real Housewives of Potomac," Gizelle tries again to smooth things over with Karen and Charrisse, and Ashley invites the ladies to a whiskey tasting.

When No. 8 Maryland hosts No. 3 Iowa at Xfinity Center on Thursday, it will mark the 15th time two top 10 men¿s teams have faced off in College Park since Lefty Driesell arrived in 1969. Interestingly, it will be the first time that has happened on the College Park campus since the No. 3 Terps beat top-ranked Duke, 86-73, at Cole Field House during the 2001-02 season.

The record snowstorm that hit the Baltimore area over the weekend may have been enough to close offices and schools and halt traffic, but the community spirit wasn't stopped that easily. Here are some readers' stories of the good Samaritan actions they witnessed or took part in in response to this weekend's blizzard.

If you're doing an unauthorized biography of Gary Williams, now would be a good time to get to work on that "End of Maryland career" section.

Here's what you need to know about the Maryland men's basketball team's game against Ohio State on Saturday.

No. 3 Maryland (14-1, 3-0) will visit the Kohl Center in Madison on Saturday as the Badgers (9-7, 1-2) are in the process of rebuilding in the aftermath of Bo Ryan's mid-season retirement last month.

Maryland routed Rutgers 88-63 on Wednesday. It could have been worse if Mark Turgeon -- whose first three years at Maryland saw the Terps take similar poundings on a regular basis and even had three blowout road defeats during the first half of the Big Ten season a year ago -- had not substituted freely and rested his starters early. The move was not lost on Eddie Jordan.

As big recruits from Baltimore steered clear of Maryland over the years, observers say the rift between city and university grew. Some deny any feud at all.

Marcus Paige scored 20 points for the No. 9 Tar Heels in their win over the No. 2 Terps in the ACC-Big Ten Challenge.

It remains to be seen whether the two-year deal between Maryland and Georgetown leads to a more permanent resumption of the long-ago rivalry between the region's two biggest college basketball powers, but the excitement surrounding Tuesday night's early-season showdown at Xfinity Center should push both schools in that direction.

Like most of the players and coaches on the 1993-94 Maryland men's basketball team, Keith Booth has vivid memories of the 84-83 overtime upset of 15th-ranked Georgetown at USAir Arena.

Talk about the once-heated Maryland-Georgetown rivalry seems like ancient history to Terps coach Mark Turgeon and his players.

Former Terps star Joe Smith reflects on his memorable debut against Georgetown.

"We just want to play games," Terps coach Mark Turgeon said Thursday.

One of the common threads that ties together the 17 seasons Mark Turgeon has been a Division I college basketball coach are the transfers who have helped transform his respective teams, particularly those at Wichita State and Maryland.

Mark Turgeon has the Maryland Terps basketball team back in the national spotlight, which puts some pressure on him to keep the team focused this season.

Mark Turgeon: "When I took the job … a long time ago, this is what I envisioned for Maryland basketball."

Xfinity Center will have a new look this season, and in case you forgot which state the Maryland basketball teams plays in, the Gary Williams Court is here to remind you.

David Hutsell, PGA assistant professional at Woodholme Golf & Country Club in Pikesville, won the 90th Middle Atlantic PGA Professional Championship on Wednesday at Congressional Country Club in Bethesda.

So how does a Maryland basketball program that seemed to be trending downward as recently as 2013-14 ¿ or have you all forgotten the 17-15 season that ended without any sort of post-season invitation ¿ get included by the Sporting News in its ranking of the top 15 programs since 2000-01? It has mostly to do with the weighted points system used to determine a program¿s accomplishments.

When he was back in the area last week for his annual summer camp in Montgomery County, former Maryland point guard Steve Blake stopped at his alma mater to play in pickup game with the current team.

Steve Blake has heard the same line for more than a decade, as the NBA careers of three of his former Maryland teammates came to an end.

It has been a while since Bray Wyatt truly had the spotlight on him. However, reminiscent of a scene that used to be common, Raw went off the air with Wyatt kneeling over his fallen victim.

American Pharoah swept to a commanding victory — and kept alive hopes for an elusive Triple Crown — as Baltimore eagerly embraced the 140th Preakness Stakes' boisterous day-long festivities, which came less than three weeks after the city was torn by riots and looting.

UnderArmour again brings out celebrity athletes

The addition of Duke transfer Rasheed Sulaimon to a Maryland team many have already picked to win the Big Ten Conference next season and be a legitimate contender for a national championship gives the Terps the most talent fans in College Park have probably seen since the 1970s.

A local basketball rivalry that hasn¿t had a regularly-scheduled game in more than two decades will resume next season when Maryland plays Georgetown in the inaugural Gavitt Tipoff Games between the Big Ten and Big East.

It has been 22 years since Duane Simpkins and Joe Smith helped Maryland beat Georgetown in the last regularly scheduled game between the two basketball rivals.

Diamond Stone, the No. 2 high school center in the country, has officially signed with Maryland, Terps coach Mark Turgeon announced Wednesday.

Incoming freshman Diamond Stone may help transform the Maryland into a perennial national power in men's basketball.

West Virginia point guard Daxter Miles Jr. and assistant coach Billy Hahn talk about their Maryland roots every day.

Brenda Frese and Mark Turgeon have more in common than the fact their Maryland basketball teams will both begin NCAA tournament play in the next two days.

From the time they emerged from a team meeting in the basement of coach Mark Turgeon's home Sunday night, the Maryland players and Turgeon himself have tried to move forward from the shocking image they saw displayed on the living room¿s big screen television a few minutes before.

With the start of the NCAA tournament, coach Mark Turgeon is hoping to see more efficiency than he did toward the end of the Big Ten Conference season, when opponents that played the Terps more than once figured Maryland out.

Projected to be a No. 3 seed in Pittsburgh after finishing the Big Ten Conference tournament with a 27-6 record, a No. 8 national ranking and in second place in the conference, Maryland was made a No. 4 seed and put in the same Midwest bracket as the tournament's top overall seed, unbeaten Kentucky.

Maryland basketball's return to March Madness has students, fans, boosters ready to celebrate like they did at the height of the Gary Williams era.

Maryland's win over Wisconsin on Tuesday night could have benefits for the Terps beyond the standings and NCAA bracketing.

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.