Nov. 27, 2007

Complete Game Notes

The University of Maryland (4-2) takes on the Illinois Fighting Illini (4-1) Wednesday (November 28) at Comcast Center as part of the 2007 Big 10/ACC Challenge. Tipoff between the Terps and Illini is set for 7:30 p.m. ET. The game will be broadcast on the Terrapin Sports Radio Network and will be televised nationally on ESPN2.
• Wednesday's game marks the seventh meeting between the two schools. Maryland holds a 4-2 lead in the all-time series.
• Maryland captured a 72-66 win over Illinois last season in Champaign. The win snapped the Illini's 51-game home winning streak over non-conference opponents.
• Last year's game between Maryland and Illinois earned the third-highest television rating among Big 10/ACC Challenge games.

The Terps are 5-3 all-time in the ACC/Big 10 Challenge dating back to its inception in 1999-2000.
• Maryland is 3-0 at home, 1-1 on the road and 1-2 at neutral sites.
• The Terps have played in seven different venues in the Challenge, including the Comcast Center, Cole Field House, Assembly Hall, Bradley Arena, Conseco Fieldhouse, Baltimore Arena and Kohl Center.
• Three of Maryland's eight Challenge games (1-2) have been overtime affairs.
• The ACC was won each of the eight Big Ten/ACC Challenges to date.
• The ACC and Big Ten are the two winningest conferences in NCAA Tournament history.
• Since 1988, 35 of the 76 Final Four teams have been from the ACC and Big Ten.

Four Terrapins scored in double figures as Maryland downed Lehigh, 72-51 Friday (November 23) afternoon. Sophomore Greivis Vasquez scored a career-high 22 points on 8-of-10 shooting from the floor. He added two assists and two steals in 35 minutes against the Mountain Hawks.
• Sophomore Braxton Dupree made his first career start in place of Bambale Osby and scored 14 points. Dupree was 5 of 9 from the floor and connected on 4 of 7 free throw attempts. He added five rebounds in 27 minutes of action.
• Senior James Gist and sophomore Eric Hayes each added 11 points for the Terps.
• Maryland finished the game 28-for-55 (.509) from the field against the Mountain Hawks and limited Lehigh to just 33 percent shooting (18 of 55).
• The Terrapins held Lehigh scoreless during a seven-minute stretch during the second half. Maryland was able to extend its lead from 43-38 to 58-38 during the run.

Maryland head coach Gary Williams is tied as the sixth-winningest active head coach in NCAA Division I men's basketball with an overall record of 589-330 (.641). He ranks second among active ACC coaches with 382 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 11 wins shy of 600 career victories. Only five active head coaches in Division I have 600 career wins.

Three of Maryland's five starters are among the top 13 players in the ACC for minutes played per contest. Senior Greivis Vasquez is second in the league, averaging 36.83 minutes per contest.
• Sophomore guard Eric Hayes is fifth in the ACC in minutes per game (35.50), while senior James Gist is 13th (32.60).

Former Maryland head coach Lefty Driesell was one of eight honorees who were inducted into the College Basketball Hall of Fame November 18.
• 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 has been a dominant home team over the years.
• The Terps are 782-276 (.738) all-time at home dating back to 1923-24.
• Maryland went 17-2 (89.5%) at home last season and are 76-14 (.843) all-time at Comcast Center. The Terps have won 37 of their last 42 at home dating back to 2003-04.
• The Terps are 231-49 (.823) at home under Gary Williams (155-35 at Cole Field House).
• Maryland is 129-19 (.871) at home the last 10 seasons (since 1998-99).
• Maryland has won 42 of its last 43 non-conference games at Comcast Center under Williams.
• The Terps are 129-2 (.985) in non-conference home games under Williams.
• Maryland was 476-151 in 47 seasons at Cole Field House; 169-90 in 24 seasons at Ritchie Coliseum and 61-21 in eight seasons at The Gymnasium.

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 292 consecutive games.
• Maryland has failed to make a 3-pointer just twice in the last 361 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 577 of 584 games.
• Since the rule was instituted in 1987, Maryland has hit at least one three-pointer in 635 of 644 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.

Senior James Gist is poised to join elite company in the storied history of Maryland Basketball:
• Gist needs 38 points to become the 46th player in school history to reach 1,000 career points.
• With his 557 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 163 rejections.
• The Silver Spring native was named a preseason Wooden Award candidate.
• Gist spend the summer as a member of the USA's Pan Am Games team which earned a fifth-place finish in Rio de Janerio, Brazil.

Sophomore guard Eric Hayes has built on an impressive freshman season and has continued his development for the Terrapins:
• Hayes has scored in double figures in four of Maryland's six games this season.
• He leads the team with 31 assists and is second on the squad with seven steals.
• Hayes tallied a career-high 15 points against North Florida in the season opener and posted a personal-best seven rebounds against Missouri.
• He leads the team from the free throw line, shooting 83 percent (15 of 18).

Sophomore guard Greivis Vasquez enjoyed a breakout season as a freshman in 2006-07 and has improved in 2007-08:
• Vasquez averages a team-high 17.7 points per game. As a freshman he scored 9.8 points per game.
• He has topped his career high twice this season. He set a new career high with 21 points against Hampton before scoring 22 against Lehigh. He has scored in double digits in five of six games this year.
• Vasquez is second on the team with 30 assists.
• He has improved his rebounding from 3.3 per game as a freshman to 5.5 this season.
• Vasquez is averaging a team-high 36.8 minutes per game.
• Vasquez spent the summer as a member of the Venezuelan National team which competed in the FIBA Americas Championships in Las Vegas during August.
• Named to the 2008 Cousy Award Preseason List.