Talk Terps

COLLEGE PARK, MD — Official news broke Friday afternoon that long-time head coach of the Maryland Terrapins men’s basketball, Mark Turgeon, and the team had mutually agreed to part ways.

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.