By DAVID DROSCHAK
AP Sports Writer

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Walk into the locker room of No. 7 Maryland and you'll likely go right past Terence Morris. He's the low-key guy who lets his play do the talking.

"He's a quiet killer," teammate Terrell Stokes said of Morris, who scored 17 points and grabbed a career-high 16 rebounds in a 63-50 victory over North Carolina State on Wednesday night.

Morris also added four blocks and two steals as Maryland limited the Wolfpack to 25.5 percent shooting - the worst in school history over a span of 2,136 games.

"You look at the stat sheet and you are just amazed at what he's done," Maryland coach Gary Williams said of the 6-foot-9 Morris. "It just doesn't seem to register with me all the good things he does out there on the court."

Meanwhile, the Wolfpack managed just six field goals in each half - 12-for-47 for the game to surpass the previous shooting low of 26.8 percent against Clemson in 1962.

"We really were ice cold on offense," said Wolfpack coach Herb Sendek, whose club also had 19 turnovers.

Maryland (21-4, 9-3 Atlantic Coast Conference) was held 24 points under its scoring average, but had enough offense down the stretch when it counted to beat the Wolfpack for the 10th straight time in the regular season.

The Terrapins played without senior center Obinna Ekezie, who ruptured his right Achilles' tendon in practice Tuesday night and is lost for the season.

"A good team has to find a way to get out of the situation," Stokes said of the loss of Ekezie. "Obinna was a good player for the past four years, so we are going to have to call on people who haven't played all year to step up for us."

Kenny Inge led N.C. State (15-9, 5-7) with 14 points after averaging 19 over his last four games.

Guess who guarded Inge?

"We just told (Morris) how well Inge was playing and that wasn't something just to get a player motivated," Williams said. "He is so quick with that size, he is tough for anyone to match up with and old Terence really got after it. He just took the challenge and tried to play as well as he could."

N.C. State trailed by as many as 13 points in the first half after shooting a miserable 23 percent, but closed within one twice in the second half, the last time with 12:03 left on two free throws by Anthony Grundy.

But then shoddy ballhandling did the Wolfpack in again against the Terrapins. Two turnovers led to slam dunks by Laron Profit and Steve Francis - their first baskets of the second half - as Maryland took a 43-35 lead with 7 1/2 minutes left.

Inge made two free throws before the Terrapins increased their lead to double digits as Danny Miller, Morris and Profit scored on layups.

N.C. State got no closer than seven points the rest of the way as Maryland hit six straight free throws over the final 1:16.

The Wolfpack missed 19 of their first 22 shots to fall behind 24-11, going through stretches of eight minutes and 5 1/2 minutes without baskets in a putrid shooting display that matched a season-low point total for a half.

Justin Gainey, coming off a career-high 28 points on a perfect 7-for-7 shooting from the field and 10-for-10 from the line in a weekend win over Clemson, was shut out in the opening 20 minutes.

N.C. State didn't approach the inept ballhandling it displayed in a 94-48 loss at Maryland on Jan. 10 that resulted in a 31-turnover game, but the team's half-court offense was totally out of sync as Maryland applied trapping pressure.

However, the Terrapins couldn't put the Wolfpack away as N.C. State closed the half with a 9-2 run to trail 26-20. One of Maryland's main threats came from an unlikely source - reserve Brian Watkins who came into the game with two points in ACC play but chipped in with seven in the first half as Mike Mardesich got into foul trouble.