Nov. 20, 2007
The University of Maryland (3-1) takes on the Missouri Tigers (3-1) Tuesday night (November 20) in the consolation game of the 2007 O'Reilly Auto Parts CBE Classic. Tipoff between the Terps and Tigers is set for 7:45 p.m. ET at the Sprint Center in Kansas City. The game will be broadcast on the Terrapin Sports Radio Network and will be televised on ESPNU.
• Maryland dropped a 71-59 decision to No. 1 UCLA in one semifinal matchup of the CBE Classic on Monday, while Missouri fell to No. 10 Michigan State, 86-83.
• Tuesday's game marks just the fifth meeting between the two schools. Missouri holds a 3-1 lead in the all-time series.
• The Terps and Tigers have not met since December 30, 1997 when the Tigers posted an 83-79 victory in Columbia.
Maryland head coach Gary Williams is the sixth-winningest active head coach in NCAA Division I men's basketball with an overall record of 588-329 (.642). He ranks second among active ACC coaches with 381 wins at Maryland (3rd overall) and also ranks second among active league coaches with 157 ACC victories. Williams is the Terps' all-time winningest coach.
• Williams is just 12 wins shy of 600 career victories. Only five active head coaches in Division I have 600 career wins.
Maryland returns to action Friday, November 23 when the Terps take on Lehigh. Tipoff is set for 4:00 p.m. at Comcast Center.
• The Terrapins begin a stretch in which they will play eight of their next nine games at home. Following Friday's game against Lehigh, Maryland will welcome Illinois to Comcast Center for the Big 10/ACC Challenge on November 28.
Greivis Vasquez led the Terps with 19 points, but Maryland fell to UCLA in the opening semifinal of the 2007 O'Reilly Auto Parts CBE Classic in Kansas City. Vasquez added a team-high six rebounds, four assists and two steals in 38 minutes. He connected on 7 of 8 free throw attempts against the Bruins.
• Senior Bambale Osby scored 13 points and added three blocked shots against UCLA. Osby connected on 5 of 9 shots from the floor and was 3 of 4 from the free throw line before fouling out with 3:59 to play in the game.
• Maryland scored 32 of its 59 points in the paint against UCLA. The Terps shot 40 percent (22 of 55) from the floor, but managed just 1 of 11 from beyond the three-point arc.
After falling to Missouri in the first semifinal O'Reilly Auto Parts CBE Classic, the Terps are now 102-39 (.724) all-time in regular season tournaments and have won 28 championships. Maryland captured the 2K Sports College Hoops Classic Championship last season with a 62-60 victory over Michigan State at Madison Square Garden.
Former Maryland head coach Lefty Driesell is one of eight
honorees who were inducted into the College Basketball Hall of Fame Sunday night.
• Driesell compiled an overall record of 348-159 as head coach of the Terrapins from 1969-1986.
• Over 41 seasons as a head coach, he guided four different teams (Davidson, Maryland, James Madison and Georgia State) to 786 victories.
• Lefty's son and former Terrapin letterman, Chuck, is in his second season as an assistant coach for Maryland.
Maryland opened the fall signing period by receiving National Letters of Intent from forward Augustus Gilchrist (Temple Hills, Md./Progressive Christian HS) and guard Sean Mosley (Baltimore, Md./St. Frances Academy).
• Gilchrist is rated the No. 14 power forward in the nation by Rivals.com. He averaged 24 points, 12 rebounds and five blocked shots per game as a senior.
• Mosley is ranked the No. 13 shooting guard by the scouting service. A two-time Nike All-American, Mosley averaged 24 points, 10 rebounds and six assists per game as a junior at St. Frances Academy.
Senior James Gist is poised to join elite company in the storied history of Maryland Basketball:
• Gist needs 61 points to become the 46th player in school history to reach 1,000 career points.
• With his 543 career rebounds, Gist is poised to become just the 22nd player in school history to tally 1,000 points and 500 rebounds.
• Gist is eighth on Maryland's all-time blocked shots list with 157 rejections.
• The Silver Spring native was named a preseason Wooden Award candidate.
Maryland has proven to be one of the nation's most proficient 3-point shooting teams since the rule was instituted in 1987.
• Maryland has made at least one 3-pointer in 290 consecutive games.
• Maryland has failed to make a 3-pointer just twice in the last 359 games.
• The last game the Terps failed to make a 3-pointer was Jan 7, 1999 when Maryland went 0-for-7 from 3-point range in a 71-66 win at Virginia.
• Since Gary Williams took over, Maryland has hit a 3-pointer in 575 of 582 games.
• Since the rule was instituted in 1987, Maryland has hit at least one three-pointer in 633 of 642 games.
• Maryland made a school-record 217 treys in 2001-02.
• The Terps' top 3-point shooting percentage was 46.1% (122-290) in 1987-88.
• Maryland set new school records for most three-pointers in a game (17) and most three-point attempts (37) last season against Missouri-Kansas City.
The Terrapins will play seven games during November. Last season, Maryland played a school-record eight games in the opening month of the season. The Terps finished the month 8-0 in 2006.
• Maryland's previous high was seven games during November of 1998.
• The Terps are 61-11 (.858) all-time in November under Gary Williams.
