INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. - The No. 3 seed Maryland men's basketball team will play second-seeded Michigan State on Saturday at 3:30 p.m. in the semifinals of the 2016 Big Ten Tournament.
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• With a 97-86 win over Nebraska, Maryland set a single-game scoring record in the Big Ten Tournament. The previous record was 94 points held by Illinois in a win over Penn State in 2000. The Terrapins finished the first half with 54 points, the most they've scored in a half this season. Jake Layman's six 3-pointers matched a Maryland record in conference tournament play (Keith Gatlin vs. Georgia Tech, 1988).
• Maryland is the only team in the Big Ten with five players averaging scoring numbers in double digits and those five scored in double figures again vs. Nebraska: Jake Layman (26), Diamond Stone (23), Melo Trimble (16), Robert Carter (13) and Rasheed Sulaimon (10).
• Carter is only 28 points away from the 1,000-career mark. Layman (1,382), Sulaimon (1,259) and Trimble (1,031) have each reached the milestone. Layman is now two points shy of cracking the top 20 of Maryland's all-time career scoring list and is tied for fifth all-time in games played (137).
• Trimble finished with 16 points, seven rebounds and eight assists. He also went to the line eight times and the Terps are now 21-3 when Trimble gets to the charity stripe at least seven times. Layman scored a season-high 26 points - the second most points scored this tournament behind Iowa's Peter Jok (29). The Terrapins finished with a season high in 3-point FG percentage (.636) and tied a season high threes made (14).
• Maryland is a perfect 5-0 in neutral site games this season with wins over Illinois State (11/24) and Rhode Island (11/25) in the Cancun Challenge, UConn in the Jimmy V Classic at Madison Square Garden, Princeton in Baltimore and vs. Nebraska in the B1G Tourney. Trimble is averaging 16 points and 6.4 assists per game as the Terps are averaging 83.6 points per outing in neutral site contests.
• Maryland has won 24 regular season games on five occasions in program history, including the past two seasons under head coach Mark Turgeon (26 regular season games in 2014-15 and 24 regular season games in 2015-16).
Big Ten Notes
• Six different programs have won the Big Ten Tournament. Ohio State and Michigan State have each claimed four official titles. Defending tournament champion Wisconsin has won the event three times, Illinois and Iowa have won two titles, and Purdue has
won the tournament once.
• History has indicated that any team, regardless of seed, can advance to the tournament championship game. The Big Ten title game has featured teams seeded as high as first, second and third and as low as eighth, ninth, 10th and 11th. Ten different schools have
advanced to the tournament's championship game. The Nos. 1 and 2 seeds have met only three times in the tournament's championship game (2004, 2006, 2007).
• A second-seeded Maryland went 1-1 in its inaugural trip to the Big Ten Tournament a year ago. The Terps defeated Indiana, 75-69, before falling to Michigan State, 62-58, in Chicago.
