Talk Terps

The Maryland Terrapins began their 2024-2025 men’s basketball season with a 3-0 record, and have an early season test tonight against the 15th ranked Marquette Golden Eagles from the Big East. The Golden Eagles and Terps will meet for the second time in their history. When the teams met in the championship game of the Orlando Invitational in 2019, Maryland won by a final score of 84-63 on Dec. 1, 2019.

For the third game in a row, the Terps had a different high-scorer over 20-points with freshman Derik Queen doing it in the opening game followed by Rodney Rice against Mount St. Mary’s, and Julian Reese dropped 21 points on Florida A&M this week.

Head coach Kevin Willard is getting to see many looks to his newly configured team, and certainly is getting a lot from Rice off the bench as his 50-points lead all reserves in the Big-Ten. Maryland won its 12th straight home non-conference game, and 18th consecutive against un-ranked non-conference foes. Tonight, it is the ranked Marquette team at Xfinity Center in College Park, Maryland.

The Maryland Terrapins began their 2024-2025 men’s basketball season a week ago with a blowout win over Manhattan then a blowout win against Mount St. Mary’s. Freshman Derik Queen is the player that Mount St. Mary’s was all over and that gave Queen’s teammates opportunities to shine with Ja’Kobi Gillespie and Rodney Rice having big games.

Head coach Kevin Willard is getting to see his team in action as each game gives the coaches more to see with their team. Maryland won its 11th straight home non-conference game, and 17th consecutive against un-ranked non-conference foes. Tonight, it is Florida A&M at Xfinity Center in College Park, Maryland.

The Maryland Terrapins begin their 2024-2025 men’s basketball season tonight with their first game amidst a new-look roster of players. The Terps hold a 47-game win streak for home openers which ranks third nationally. The streak began back in the 1977 season. The Terps are 312-75 (.806) all-time in XFINITY Center including 27-7 (.794) under Kevin Willard. Maryland has won nine straight home non-conference games, and 15 consecutive against un-ranked non-conference foes.

The Maryland Terrapins have fallen into their worst stretch in years, and find themselves at 3-3 in the middle of their season. This is a must win game for Maryland in their annual Homecoming game at SECU Stadium in College Park. This will be Maryland’s 102nd Homecoming game. The Terps have an all-time record of 61-36-4 in homecoming games (60.3 winning percentage). In town as their opponent is one of the newest Big-10 teams from the west coast in the USC Trojans. USC will be the 32nd different opponent Maryland will welcome on homecoming.

The Terps have won three of their past four and six of their last eight homecoming games, with wins against Purdue (2016), Indiana (2017 & 2021), Rutgers (2018), Minnesota (2020), and Northwestern (2022) in that span.

USC travels its furthest distance this season, and traveled across the country to just outside of our nation’s capital to play Maryland for the first time ever in the history of these programs. USC also enters this game with a 3-3 record.

With Billy Edwards Jr. at QB1 for the Terps, he must figure out a way to lead his team to victory. Tai Felton was the star in the Terps three wins, and he must turn big plays to keep drives moving and convert them into touchdowns. That all makes sense, but clearly the team is made up of dozens of other players who must step up.