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Maryland Basketball Scoop: A scorer on the wing and frontcourt force​

The latest scoop from practice on this year's Maryland basketball team.​


After watching Maryland men's basketball practice last week, it seems like there's newfound energy in comparison to last year's group. The rotation is filled with more experienced players who have a firm understanding of what role they'll need to fill. The mix of veterans, sophomores or juniors who know the college basketball landscape and two freshmen in Derik Queen and Malachi Palmer, both who have a chance to make immediate impacts, should result in a group with a much stronger foundation.


A few quick notes:

Rodney Rice had himself a strong afternoon while IMS was in attendance. The 6-foot-4 sophomore transfer from Virginia Tech looked a lot like the player he was as a senior at DeMatha with the way he was knocking down shots from all levels. He played primarily off the ball, but was involved as the initiator in a bunch of ball screens from the wing where he came off looking to get to his spots in the mid-range. As he found his groove, he started showing off his vision hitting the roller for bunnies around the rim or short corner jumpers. Rice could be a scoring sixth man.

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A bucket getter ? @rodneyrice__ pic.twitter.com/7d7zQrnM2C
— Maryland Men’s Basketball (@TerrapinHoops) October 12, 2024
The frontcourt rotation of Julian Reese, Queen, Tafara Gapare and Jordan Geronimo is a balanced group. Reese is a physical menace in the paint and should be a constant double-double threat entering his senior season. Queen's skill, upside and ability have all been well-documented and the flashes he showed in practice was further proof. Gapare will provide energy, size and springy athleticism off the bench. Don't be surprised if he's on the receiving end of lobs thrown from Queen and guards who penetrate the middle of the paint.

Other quick hitters include Ja'Kobi Gillespie's on-ball shotmaking ability with extended range, Selton Miguel's ability to cause mismatches and quickly take advantage with his size and strength as well as Jay Young, a grad transfer guard from Memphis who could end up serving as a valuable backup to Gillespie.


"Julian Reese was a [rising] senior, we had Derik Queen coming in, two great low-post players. I wanted in the portal to get older guys that could shoot the basketball and not only just shoot the basketball, but shoot the basketball without having to create a shot for them," Willard said. "And a guy like Selton Miguel, Ja'Kobi Gillespie, Rodney Rice, guys that can get a bucket without having to run a play."

Northwestern predictions

I've got the Terps in a close one. Hope Vegas is right here and the Terps win by double-digits, but I just have a hard time seeing it. This game is virtually must-win if they want to go bowling and I'm sure they have heard all the talk about how Locks is winless coming off a bye while at Maryland. They are rested and the motivation should be there.

Terps - 24
Northwestern - 20

Opening as a 10.5 Favorite against Northwestern for Friday's Blackout Game After a Bye Week

Fanduel up first. O/U is 42.5

Locklsey 0-7 in his career coming off an in-season bye. The program is 3-14 all time in Blackout Games, 1-4 against Northwestern.

Maybe the triple whammy is the reverse jinx?

Long range forecast: Sunny Daytime high of 72, overnight low getting down to around 57. Evening winds light and variable.
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OT: Need help setting up booster club for son’s wrestling team

My son wrestles at a D-3 school and some of the parents along with the coach set up a 501c3 booster club. Just found out that the athletic director seems none to pleased and wants us to include the women’s team which is in its first year of existence. Obviously we are hoping the women’s team is successful but have zero interest in funding it. Unfortunately, any money we spend on the men’s team has to be matched by the school on women’s sports so she wants control of our spending. Anybody out there know of other options available for us to pay for things for the team like meals, travel expenses, coach salary to bring in outside coaches? Want to figure out a way to make sure our money and fundraising goes to our boys. Thanks

To clarify, because it is a 501c3 they are bound by Title IX restrictions and if they don’t match the spend then the school could be in violation of Title IX
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Wow, that's BAD

Maryland was 10-25-14 under Ryan Nemzer. The Terps were 3-21-2 in Big Ten matches and had not scored a goal in the last 16 conference matches


Origin Story....who knew?

OT: UMD Approves October 7th Anniversary Celebration

Absolutely disgusting and indefensible

Flood Pines' office with complaints about this.

$$$$$ line right here no matter where you stand on this whole thing:
Would any university allow a student organization to burn crosses on its campus to celebrate the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.? To celebrate the anniversary of 9/11 by calling for new Al Qaeda attacks?
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