Dec. 4, 1999

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Maryland Game Notes: Maryland (6-1) advances to the championship game of the BB&T Classic for the fourth straight season ... defeated a nationally ranked opponent for the third straight season ... Maryland has beaten Big Ten teams in back-to-back games for the first time in school history ... four game win streak is longest of season ... head coach Gary Williams is 34-7 the last two seasons ... second straight year that Maryland's BB&T opener has gone to the wire against a ranked team ... No. 2 Terps beat No. 5 Stanford 62-60 in 1998 ... Steve Blake set a new single-game tournament record with 11 assists ... Massachusetts Edgar Padilla had 10 vs. Florida in 1995 ... his 11 assists tied a career-high ... Lonny Baxter has scored double figure points with at least 8 rebounds in all seven games ... Baxter scored his third consecutive double-double of the season ... Baxter's third consecutive double-double was the first for Maryland since Keith Booth in 1997 ... Terence Morris has scored 20 points in consecutive games for the fourth time this season ... 21 lead changes and 11 ties ... seven lead changes and four ties in the last six and a half minutes ... Juan Dixon's FG at 6.3 seconds provided the final margin ... Maryland's first win of the season while trailing at halftime ... Maryland outscored Illinois 28-10 in the paint ... Terps shot .833 (15-18) from the free throw line in the second half.