COLLEGE PARK, Md. - The No. 6 Maryland men's basketball team travels to the Big Apple for a battle with UConn in the Jimmy V Classic at Madision Square Garden.
WATCH: ESPN - John Saunders (Play-by-Play), Dick Vitale (Analyst), Andy Katz (Sideline)
LISTEN: Terrapin Sports Radio Network - Johnny Holliday (PxP), Chris Knoche (Analyst) SiriusXM Channel 84/84, ESPN 980 AM, 105.7 FM; ESPN Radio - Marc Kestecher (PxP), Bob Valvano (Analyst)
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• Robert Carter had 20 points as Maryland routed St. Francis 96-55 on Friday night. The Terrapins bounced back from their first loss of the season last Tuesday against No. 9 North Carolina in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge. Freshman Diamond Stone added 16 points, and Jake Layman scored 11 of his 16 points in the first half. Maryland (7-1) was 31 of 46 from the field (67.4 percent) - the fifth-best single game mark in program history. The Terps have shot at least 50 percent for five consecutive games.
• This will be senior Jake Layman's fourth trip to NYC as a member of the Maryland men's basketball team. Layman scored 13 points and added four rebounds in a loss to UConn in Brooklyn in 2013, posted seven boards in a NIT semifinal loss to Iowa at Madison Square Garden to cap the 2012-13 campaign, and recorded three points and two rebounds as a freshman against Kentucky at Barclays in 2012.
• While at Georgia Tech, Robert Carter posted 11 points and 13 rebounds against Ole Miss and nine points and five boards vs. St. John's in a pair of losses at the Barclays Center Classic in 2013.
• Rasheed Sulaimon was 3-1 with Duke in the Big Apple, as the Blue Devils captured the Coaches vs. Classic title a year ago at Barclays with wins over Temple and Stanford. Sulaimon posted five assists in a win over Alabama and eight points in a loss to Arizona in the Preseason NIT at Madison Square Garden in 2013.
• Maryland is 11-6 all-time at Madison Square Garden. The first game was a Maryland win over Boston College, 88-63, on March 11, 1958 in the NCAA East Regional First Round - the first-ever tournament appearance in school history. The last time the Terps visited MSG was a 71-60 loss to Iowa in the NIT semifinals April 2, 2013.
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• UConn, which defeated Sacred Heart, 82-49, its last time out, has four players scoring in double-figures per game, including junior Rodney Purvis (14.1), sophomore Daniel Hamilton (12.6), and grad students Shonn Miller (12.1) and Sterling Gibbs (11.9). Hamilton is the team's top rebounder (9.4) and assist leader (6.3).
• Maryland trails in the all-time series, 4-2, including a 78-77 loss to the Huskies just two years ago at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y. Two of the meetings occurred in the postseason - a 90-82 Terrapin victory in the 2002 East Regional Championship game in Syracuse, N.Y. and a 99-89 UConn win in the 1995 West Regional Semifinals in Oakland, Calif.
