Terps Face Richmond at Barclays Classic Friday
11/24/2016 12:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
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COLLEGE PARK, Md. - The Maryland men's basketball team faces Richmond in the 2016 Barclays Classic Friday at 9:30 p.m. in Brooklyn.
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• Melo Trimble scored 21 points and Dion Wiley and Michal Cekovsky added 13 and 11, respectively, as Maryland stayed unbeaten with a 77-63 victory over Stony Brook on Tuesday night its last time out.
• With 26 made free throws in the last two games, Melo Trimble moved into the top 10 and became the eighth Terrapin to record 400 or more made FTs in a career. After hitting 10 against Stony Brook Tuesday, he is now six away from passing Maryland legend Tom McMillen for seventh (404). The Terps are 26-4 when Trimble gets to the line at least seven times.
• Melo Trimble scored 17 points on a perfect 7-for-7 shooting performance, and then-No. 2 Maryland beat Rhode Island 86-63 on Nov. 25 to win the Cancun Challenge last season. Trimble, who was named tournament MVP, also went 3-for-3 at the line and grabbed six rebounds. Rasheed Sulaimon also scored 17 points on 6-for-7 shooting, and joined backcourt mate Trimble on the all-tournament team. The championship was the Terps' 31st holiday tournament title and their third consecutive after winning the Paradise Jam in 2013 and the CBE Classic in 2014.
• Melo Trimble has been sensational in holiday tournament action in his first two years at Maryland. In four games, Trimble has averaged 14.3 points per game and shot 65 percent from the floor (24-for-37). The Upper Marlboro, Md., native was 21-22 from the charity stripe and recorded a career-high 31 points against Arizona State in the CBE Classic in 2014. He was named Most Valuable Player at both the Cancun Challenge and the CBE Classic while leading the Terps to both titles.
• The 2016 Barclays Classic will mark the third time that the Terps have played at the Barclays Center (vs. Kentucky - Nov. 9, 2012 and vs. UConn - Nov. 8, 2013). It is also the second consecutive season that the Terps will play in the Big Apple, after defeating UConn, 76-66, in the Jimmy V Classic last December at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
• Head coach Mark Turgeon is 31-6 in the month of November while at the helm of the Maryland basketball program.
