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The Towson women's basketball team's 10 wins in 15 games is its fastest run to double-digit victories since 2011-12 and its 4-0 opening in the conference is its best since 2007-08. - Andrew Kostecka and Isaiah Hart combined to score 43 points for host Loyola Maryland, which won, 75-65, in its 174th meeting with Mount St. Mary’s on Saturday.
- Maryland was picked in the AP media Top 25 for the first time since the 2016-17 season, with the Terps coming in at No. 24 this week
- A video of Marshall sophomore forward Jannson Williams criticizing the Maryland guards played a big role in the Terps’ 104-67 thumping on Friday night.
- After starting the season 5-0, Maryland will take on Marshall on Friday night at Xfinity Center.
- As general manager Eric DeCosta predicted, the class includes three running backs with Rutgers' Gus Edwards, Florida's Mark Thompson and Alcorn State's De'Lance Turner.
- The salary marks a pay cut from what he earned at LSU.
- The Thundering Herd had one of the top defenses in the nation this past season.
- It's like a fraternity, Zachary Orr is trying to explain, and in the literal sense of the word, he is correct: The Ravens' undrafted linebackers are a brotherhood, sharing practice reps, small-school pedigrees and the life lessons that have so far kept them kin.
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Andre Walker scored 24 points, including the winning layup with 0.5 of a second remaining, to give Loyola Maryland a 71-70 victory over host Stony Brook in
- Chase Litton completed 13 of his 16 passes for 309 yards with six first-half touchdown passes and host Marshall cruised past Morgan State, 62-0.
- Maryland basketball power forward Robert Carter Jr. is averaging 13 points per game, behind only Terps teammate Melo Trimble.
- Robert Carter had a game-high 19 points to lead four Maryland players in double figures in the Terps' final tuneup before Big Ten play begins Wednesday.
- Sophomore point guard Jaylen Brantley will try to replicate his season-best performance from last Saturday when now-No. 4 Maryland (10-1) plays Marshall (4-8) on Sunday afternoon at Xfinity Center. Marshall is one of three stops the now-22-year-old Brantley made between high school in and near Springfield, Mass. and his eventual arrival at Maryland.
- Thomas worked one of the Ravens' preseason games last year and acquitted herself well, according to coach John Harbaugh.
- The NFL has announced that Sarah Thomas has been hired as its first permanent female official. Thomas joins the NFL as a line judge, along with eight other first-time officials who are all graduates of the league's officiating development program.
- A redshirt freshman, the 6-foot-2, 225-pound McManus finished this season with 26 catches for 422 yards and six touchdowns.
- A look at college football players from the state of Maryland who will play in bowl games this winter.
- The Ravens take their recruiting and signing of undrafted rookie free agents extremely seriously, enlisting coach John Harbaugh to personally convince players to sign with them.
- Marshall's Rakeem Cato finished with 337 passing yards as the Thundering Herd prevailed, 31-20, before an announced 30,163 at the Military Bowl.
- Maryland might have lost its first bowl game since 2010, but Annapolis served up a winner with Friday's Military Bowl.
- Shouts of "We are Marshall!" rang out in the lobby of the team's downtown Washington hotel, where fans of the Thundering Herd had gathered on the eve of Friday's Military Bowl matchup against Maryland in Annapolis.
- After five years in the nation's capital, the Military Bowl is staking out its future in Annapolis.
- Ahead of Friday's Military Bowl, Terps football coach Randy Edsall sat down for a wide-ranging interview with The Baltimore Sun.
- The Military Bowl in Annapolis would be 'a logical choice' for Maryland, and the AdvoCare V100 Bowl in Shreveport is also scouting the Terps.
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