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In the days following last month's nationally televised announcement that Texas twins Andrew and Aaron Harrison had chosen Kentucky over Maryland, there was a lot of message board chatter about Mark Turgeon possibly losing out on other top recruits, including Roddy Peters of Suitland.

Game 1: Kentucky 72, Maryland 69 @ The Barclays Center, Brooklyn, N.Y As much as Mark Turgeon hates to lose, the Terps at least gave notice that they should be solidly entrenched in the top half of the ACC this season.

Maryland athletic director Kevin Anderson deserves some credit for helping get Dez Wells eligible before the Terps take the court at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn on Friday night against defending national champion Kentucky.

Coming off its first NCAA Tournament appearance in almost two decades, Loyola's men's basketball team is taking on an unfamiliar role this season -- the hunted.

The most positive thing I can say about Friday night¿s 73-61 exhibition win over Division II Indiana (Pa.) was that the Terps avoided having the score mentioned on ESPN.

Former University of Maryland Terrapins basketball coach Gary Williams spoke to a group of more than 300 at Turf Valley in Ellicott City Wednesday night, as keynote speaker at the 2012 Howard County Economic Development Authority's annual awards.

Baltimore Sun reporters Jeff Barker and Don Markus and editor Matt Bracken weigh in on the three biggest topics of the past week in Maryland sports.

ESPN recruiting analyst Dave Telep said today that Maryland coach Mark Turgeon and his staff had to "work really hard" in the past two weeks to secure a commitment from Suitland guard Roddy Peters, who announced Tuesday that he was coming to College Park next season.

Some might look at Roddy Peters as a consolation prize for Maryland after the Terps finished second to Kentucky in their pursuit of the Harrison twins.

Mark Turgeon doesn't relish the spotlight, but fortunately for the students at Friday night's Maryland Madness, the Terps men's basketball players don't share their coach's reserve.

The buzz surrounding Shaquille Cleare has dulled a bit since the 6-9 power forward from Houston announced more than a year ago that he was coming to Maryland. The spring and summer of 2012 had all been about whether his former AAU teammates, Andrew and Aaron Harrison, would join him here next year.

Eric Hayes spent the first two years after graduating Maryland in 2010 playing basketball in three different countries and moving closer to his ultimate goal ¿ becoming a coach like his father, Kendall, who had coached for years in Northern Virginia and stopped to watch his son play for the Terps.

On Tuesday, Turgeon made it clear that the 2012-13 team was more of a reflection of him: how the players he inherited had grown, how the players he recruited had raised the level of competitiveness in pickup games and, without mentioning names, how some of the players no longer here ¿ one in particular ¿ were not missed.

The recruiting battle for the Harrison twins that ended with Maryland losing out to Kentucky made me think about Lefty Driesell and some of the tales he has told over the years about going after the likes of Tom McMillen, Moses Malone and Albert King.

Baltimore Sun reporters Jeff Barker and Don Markus and editor Matt Bracken weigh in on the three biggest topics of the past week in Maryland sports.

The Harrison twins, Andrew Harrison and Aaron Harrison, committed to the Kentucky Wildcats over the Maryland Terps.

Juan Dixon is part of an eight-member class being inducted into the Maryland Athletics Hall of Fame on Friday

Maryland shuffling offensive line

Bill Self signed a longtime extension at Kansas on Friday, meaning that second-year Maryland coach Mark Turgeon is not going anywhere anytime soon.

Baltimore Sun reporters Jeff Barker and Don Markus and editor Matt Bracken weigh in on the three biggest topics of the past week in Maryland sports.

Baltimore Sun reporters Jeff Barker and Don Markus and editor Matt Bracken weigh in on the three biggest topics of the past week in Maryland sports.

Baltimore Sun reporters Jeff Barker and Don Markus and editor Matt Bracken weigh in on the three biggest topics of the past week in Maryland sports.

Matt Bracken goes 1-on-1 with Maryland men's basketball coach Mark Turgeon on recruiting, incoming freshmen, veterans and more.

Baltimore Sun reporters Jeff Barker and Don Markus and editor Matt Bracken weigh in on the three biggest topics of the past week in Maryland sports.

An interesting e-mail was sent today to members of the Baltimore-Washington media covering Maryland athletics. It came from former Terps football coach Ralph Friedgen.

Each morning, Monday through Friday, we'll hook you up with some reading material to skim through as you slug down coffee and slack off at the start of your workday.

There were times Gary Williams second-guessed his decision to help rebuild a Maryland program still reeling from the scandal surrounding the cocaine-induced death of All-American Len Bias three years before, and the turmoil that enveloped the Terps during Bob Wade's tenure.

Former Maryland baskeball coach Gary Williams knows what Bill O'Brien is facing at Penn State

It will be interesting to see what the immediate fallout of the Penn State sanctions might be when it comes to Maryland's football program.

Matt Bracken rounds up the latest Terps recruiting news.

Former Terp Sean Mosley dishes on his career at Maryland and his plans to play basketball professionally.

Ex-NBA player Walt Williams enters Catoctin Challenge to benefit Camp Greentop and The League for People with Disabilities

Jeff Barker, Don Markus and Matt Bracken discuss the biggest topics in the past week of Maryland Terps basketball and football.

Jeff Barker, Don Markus and Matt Bracken discuss the Maryland men's basketball team, including thoughts on Ashton Pankey's transfer and the many earlier-than-expected Terps departures.

Former Maryland center Berend Weijs discusses his Terps career in another installment of The Last Word.

Baltimore Sun reporters Jeff Barker and Don Markus and editor Matt Bracken weigh in on the biggest topic of the past week in Maryland sports.

The Maryland basketball team's promising incoming recruiting class will get a chance to make an early impact. The five freshmen will be counted on as coach Mark Turgeon says he'll "play the best players."

Contracts of Terps' basketball assistants released; Dalonte Hill, Scott Spinelli, Bino Ranson each got one-year deals.

Actor Kevin Bacon judged a competition — called the "Do Good" Challenge — as part of an effort by the school to make philanthropy more of a focus in academics and student life.

Since coming to Maryland from Army 18 months ago, Maryland athletic director Kevin Anderson has been forced to make some tough decisions – one which could come back to haunt him.

The excitement that is building locally for Maryland basketball is not exactly resonating among the national experts.

Best and worst of the Maryland Terps football and basketball beat by Baltimore Sun reporter Jeff Barker includes best games, oddest press conference.

Michigan transfer Evan Smotrycz has committed to Maryland over Colorado and Providence.

Eight players from the Baltimore area and 11 from Maryland DI schools were listed in Jeff Goodman's college basketball transfer list.

Perhaps the most overlooked aspect of Mychal Parker's development during his two-year stay at Maryland was one which fans couldn¿t see, much less appreciate.

In what he called the "toughest decision of his life," rising junior wing Mychal Parker will leave Maryland after two seasons, according to a statement he made to The Recruit Scoop.