Postgame Notes

Dec. 11, 2005

The No. 17/21 Maryland men's basketball team knocked off No. 6 Boston College, 73-71, Sunday evening at the Comcast Center in the Eagles' first ever Atlantic Coast Conference contest. Maryland moves to 7-2 overall and 1-0 in the conference while BC drops to 7-2 and 0-1 in the ACC.

The Terps now lead the all-time series with the Eagles, 4-1. Today was the teams' first meeting since 1990, when Maryland won, 100-85.

Maryland has now won five of their last six ACC openers. They are 29-24 in ACC openers all-time.

The Terps are a perfect 5-0 at the Comcast Center this season.

Williams improved to 341-180 at Maryland and is now just eight wins shy of becoming the program's all-time winningest coach. Charles "Lefty" Driesell is currently at the top of the list with 348.

Under Williams, Maryland has 28 wins over top-10 opponents in 17 seasons. They are 13-8 against top-10 teams during the last five seasons.

The win was Maryland's first over a top-10 opponent since Feb. 12, 2005 when the Terps knocked off No. 7 Duke, 99-92 in overtime.

Junior Ekene Ibekwe scored a season-high 21 points on 8-for-13 shooting.

Ibekwe scored Maryland's first six points, and 11 of its first 13.

The Terps made more free throws (19) than the Eagles attempted (15).

Maryland limited the Eagles to just two free throw attempts in the first half, both of which they missed. Their previous season-low for free throw attempts was 20.

Senior Chris McCray reached the 1,000-point plateau for his career with 16 points tonight. He has been in double digits in scoring all eight games he's played this season. The shooting guard also recorded a season-high two blocks.

At the half, the Terps led by two at 35-33. Ibekwe paced the Terps with 15 points and five rebounds. For BC, Craig Smith and Jared Dudley each had 10 points at the break.

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