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This is not how Maryland men's basketball coach Mark Turgeon envisioned the Terps would enter the Big Ten Conference.

Nine former BCL standouts won't soon forget after being honored as the newest members of the league's Hall of Fame on Thursday, a group that included former Maryland star and current assistant coach Juan Dixon.

Considering the players Maryland loses after next season, this is going to be an important recruiting class for Mark Turgeon based on who he's going to need to replace.

Baltimore Sun reporter Don Markus and producer-editor Jonas Shaffer weigh in on three topics from the past week in Maryland sports.

Final Four nets Maryland Terps coach Brenda Frese bonuses topping $100,000. She signed contract extension last year.

Three players from the Maryland men's basketball team were granted their release to transfer Tuesday.

Gary Williams has officially received his hall pass, being named one of the 2014 inductees for the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame on Monday afternoon.

Gary Williams, 69, is expected to be announced Monday as a member of the 2014 class, and he will be inducted in August. Multiple media outlets reported Saturday that Williams, who has declined comment, had become a first-ballot selection.

Former Terps forward, now 67 and living in Florida, looks back at becoming the first African-American to earn a scholarship in the conference

The list of the best college basketball coaches not to have made the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame apparently will shorten by at least one name.

You don't need to think too far back to remember Maryland's most recent games against Kentucky and Connecticut. The Terps opened the 2012-13 season with a loss to the Wildcats at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn and returned a year later to lose a close one with the Huskies.

Ron "Fang" Mitchell's 28-year coaching career at Coppin State appears to have come to an end.

Former Maryland coach Gary Williams was selected to the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame. The induction will be held Nov. 23 in Kansas City as a prelude to the CBE Classic, which this year includes the Terps.

Maryland looked at the National Invitation Tournament as a building block for Mark Turgeon's program last season. Will it have the same feel if the Terps are invited to the NIT again?

Anderson, who signed Mark Turgeon to an eight-year contract after Gary Williams retired suddenly in March 2011, said he still has faith that the Terps will turn it around.

Maryland ended its 61-year history in the Atlantic Coast Conference with a loss to Florida State in the ACC tournament.

As familiar as Maryland became with Greensboro (N.C.) Coliseum, the Terps -- who play there Thursday against Florida State in their final ACC tournament before departing for the Big Ten -- could never quite shake the sense that they were guests at somebody else's party.

Ten years ago, John Gilchrist led Maryland to the 2004 ACC tournament championship, a three-game sweep over the top three seeds that ended with an overtime victory against archrival Duke. Gilchrist was named the tournament's Most Valuable Player after averaging 24 points per game.

After collapsing in the final minute of regulation and allowing No. 5 Virginia to force overtime, the Terps hit five of their last six free throws -- four by Jake Layman -- to beat the Cavaliers, 75-69.

Maryland (16-14, 8-9 ACC) will be looking for a signature win while Virginia (25-5, 16-1) comes in as hot as the then No. 2 Terps were in 2002, when they won their first national championship. The Cavaliers have won 13 straight.

Maryland will honor its last regular season game as a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference with giveaways and an autograph session with some of the Terps' legendary former players and coaches.

UMBC's Rodney Elliott, son of the Maryland standout by the same name, has quickly become a leader as the Retrievers' freshman point guard.

Who's to blame for Maryland not winning close games, Mark Turgeon or his players?

Store owner, framer and art consultant, Garry Spears, 68, weathered a recession about eight years ago and several store moves and is now marking a quarter of a century of doing business in Laurel.

Jim Boeheim was ejected as Syracuse lost its second straight game Saturday night at Duke. That doesn't bode well for Maryland on Monday night.

Ravens owner Steve Bisciotti is pushing for his friend Gary Williams to be selected for the Naismith Hall of Fame.

Wake Forest's Devin Thomas is the younger brother of Maryland women's star Alyssa Thomas, but he's not bashful about goin up against the Terps.

Maryland nearly changed the script everyone outside its locker room and most loyal fans were expecting, taking the No. 8 Blue Devils down to the final seconds before losing, 69-67, in what will be regarded a fitting, if unfulfilling, ending for the Terps in this magnificent rivalry.

Former Maryland men's basketball coach Gary Williams on Friday was named one of nine individual finalists for the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.

Maryland guards Dez Wells and Nick Faust have a lot of memories of the Duke-Maryland rivalry from when they were growing up.

Don Markus recalls his favorite memories from Duke's venerable basketball arena.

In its prime, Maryland-Duke was a series that emanated heat. While Duke fans professed indifference, the rivalry didn't fade away quietly at Maryland, not even after the school announced it would join the financially lucrative Big Ten beginning this July.

After being saddled to the bench in the first half with two early fouls, Wells scored 18 points in the second half and hit his biggest shot since coming to Maryland -- a 3-pointer for the win with 5.9 seconds left.

For the Terps, it is not just a matter of shooting better or simply eliminating silly fouls and sloppy turnovers. It's about changing their mindset.

Syracuse and Pittsburgh have made nearly flawless transitions from the Big East to the Atlantic Coast Conference this season.

Former head coach Gary Williams talks about what's wrong with the Terps men's basketball team.

Maryland's winning formula must begin at home. Facing difficult road slate, Terps will need to keep winning at Comcast Center

Maryland football coach Randy Edsall and men¿s basketball coach Mark Turgeon are among the highest-profile public employees in the state. They are also the highest paid.

While Seth Allen probably will not play much until the Terps return to ACC competition Saturday against Georgia Tech, recent history suggests he might.

Quintin Dailey, Jean Ratelle and Lefty Driesell are part of The Sun Remembers This Week in Sports for Dec. 22-28

Mark Turgeon and Nick Faust have long seemed linked.

After the Terps twice tied the game in the final minute, a 16-foot jumper from the left wing by Maurice Creek with six-tenths of a second left gave George Washington a 77-75 win over Maryland.

The honeymoon for Mark Turgeon has ended, especially after another disappointing performance by Maryland against Ohio State on Wednesday.

The present found a much bigger place in a 76-60 loss to the No. 5 Buckeyes in the Big Ten/ACC Challenge, the last for the Terps in one league before they jump next season to the other.