The Maryland Terrapins, coming off an excursion to the Bahamas that saw them take second place in the Baha Mar Invitational, face their biggest test of the season to this point. This comes on Len Bias Night as XFINITY Center is gold and red tonight with most fans adorned in Bias throwback jerseys.
PISCATAWAY, N.J. — Both teams today have identical 5-6 records overall with 2-6 in the Big Ten conference. You win six games and your are bowl eligible so a lot is on the line today in this showdown between the Rutgers Scarlet Knights and the Maryland Terrapins (5-6, 2-6) in this regular-season finale.
One team will walk off the field in pain and the other team in celebration of a victory. This will feel like a Wild Card game. A lot is at stake and most importantly — pride.
COLLEGE PARK, MD — The No. 3 Maryland Terps took-down the 6th ranked team from Baylor by a final score of 79-76 on Sunday afternoon at XFINITY Center. Maryland has three Top-10 games this week which will feel like the NCAA tourney with the Baylor game, NC State on Thanksgiving then the reigning NCAA champs of Stanford on Saturday.
This would be a great day for a Maryland Terps win. At home in College Park, Maryland and facing a tough Michigan opponent would right this ship for the Terps. They danced with Penn State and Michigan State in consecutive weeks until they collapsed near the end. Today, the Terrapins have to push a W over the finish line.
it was too little too late as the 20th ranked Terps fell to unranked George Mason by a final score of 71-66. Donta Scott and Eric Ayala led the Terps in scoring with Julian Reese off the bench adding ten points. Mason came out of the half too strong for the Terps, and Maryland’s late run at the end wasn’t enough.
COLLEGE PARK, MD — The No. 20 Maryland men’s basketball team enters its second week of the season as it welcomes local foe George Mason to College Park Wednesday for a 7pm tip on Big Ten Network. The Terps are looking to jump out to a 4-0 start for the eighth consecutive season. Maryland is 9-0 against the Patriots in the all-time series.
The Maryland Terrapins’ football team is still searching for that elusive sixth win of the season, and their road takes them to Michigan in East Lansing to face the 8-1 Michigan State Spartans, a team ranked 7th in the entire NCAA.
Immediately after the final buzzer sounded in Indianapolis, ending the Maryland Terrapins’ season in the Second Round of the NCAA Tournament, the wheels were set in motion. Mark Turgeon was fresh off a season where he took a team that looked dead to rights and steered them to the Big Dance. He defied the odds to bring the Terps to March. However, the first question was concerning his job status. At the same time the Terps reached their valley, rumors surfaced that Turgeon was on the way out whether due to his own decision or that of the athletics department. In the end, he remained in College Park after being rumored to have been linked to the openings at Oklahoma and Wichita State. The team in 2021-22 is certainly different. Whether or not it is for the better remains unseen.
Maryland’s season has been a tale of two teams. The first team is the dominant one that sprinted out to a 4-0 start going into Big Ten play. A superb offense and stifling defense kept opponents at bay and allowed the team to win in rather convincing fashion. Just like Cinderella when the clock struck midnight, the team transformed into a shell (no pun intended) of itself. The game against Iowa, a blowout loss, was dismissed as an apparition. As the season rolls on, it seems like more of a forewarning. Now, sitting at 4-3, it is not as if the season is over. There are still multiple big time games for the Terps and a bowl game is still in play. The outlook looks a lot more bleak, but winning some games can cure just about everything.