Men's Hoops Faces UAB Sunday At Asheville Championship

Sunday, November 12

Birmingham, AL

12:30 PM

Maryland

UAB

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Guard Jahari Long (2)
Maryland Men's Basketball vs. Davidson College at Harrah's Cherokee Center in Asheville, NC on Friday November 10, 2023.

Men's Hoops Faces UAB Sunday At Asheville Championship

11/11/2023 12:50:00 PM | Men's Basketball

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Maryland (1-1) vs. UAB (0-2)

November 12, 2023

Harrah's Cherokee Center

12:30 p.m.

ESPN2

COLLEGE PARK, MD - Maryland looks to shake off a tough shooting performance in Friday's loss to Davidson as the Terps take on UAB in the Asheville Championship Tournament third-place game on Sunday afternoon. The game will tip at 12:30 PM and will be televised on ESPN2. Fans can also listen to the game on the Maryland Sports Radio Network with Brendan Hartlove calling the action alongside Chris Knoche. This will be the first all-time meeting between the two programs. UAB narrowly fell to Clemson, 77-76, on Friday night and has lost its opening two games by a total of three points.

Last Time Out

Against Davidson, the Terps were led by Jahmir Young's 18 points and seven assists as well as Julian Reese's 16 points and 11 rebounds. The 18-point performance for Young pushed the fifth-year senior over 2,000 points for his career. Reese's double-double was his first of the season and the eighth of his career.
Davidson led by as many as nine late in the second half, but the Terps used an 11-to-2 run in the final four minutes to tie the game on a Young three-point play with 37 seconds remaining. The Wildcats pulled back ahead with 13 seconds to go on a three-pointer. Maryland had two chances in the balance of the game to force overtime, but were unable to connect.

Guard Jahmir Young (1)Maryland Men's Basketball vs. Davidson College at Harrah's Cherokee Center in Asheville, NC on Friday November 10, 2023.

Jahmir Young led the Terps against Davidson with 18 points pushing him past 2,000 for his career.

Fear The Jahmir

After a standout season in 2022-23, Jahmir Young, one of the top point guards in the country, has racked up the preseason accolades, He was named to the Bob Cousy Award Watch List becoming the first since Anthony Cowan, Jr., in 2019. He is looking to become the first player since Greivis Vasquez in 2010 to win the honor. Young was also a unanimous selection to the Preseason All-Big Ten Team, the first unanimous pick for Maryland since Cowan in 2019.
Additionally, Young picked up Preseason All-America honors from Blue Ribbon and Lindy's, while The Field of 68 had him on the All-Big Ten Preseason Team and ranked him as the No. 35 of 100 top players nationally entering 2023-24.
Last season, Young was a second team All-Big Ten selection, was named to the USBWA All-District Team, and selected to the NABC All-District Second Team. Additionally, he was chosen as the Pigskin Club of Washington Collegiate Player of the Year.
Young is looking to become just the sixth NCAA player since 2006 to post 1,000 points at two different institutions during his career. Prior to the the extra year of eligibity due to COVID-19, only three players had achieved the feat in the past 20 years. Young's 2,004 career points ranks 2nd among active players in the NCAA behind Max Abmas of Texas (2,574 pts).

Jahmir Young is a member of the Bob Cousy Watch List and was a unanimous pick to the preseason All-B1G Team.

JuJu Beast

After a breakout sophomore campaign that saw Julian Reese become one of the top big men in the Big Ten, the Baltimore native enters 2023-24 with high praise. Reese joined Jahmir Young on the Preseason All-Big Ten Team and was named to the Karl Malone Power Forward of the Year Award Watch List.
Reese showed his impact for the Terps in 2022-23 as he scored in double-figures in 22 games with a career-high 24 points against Coppin State. He had seven double-doubles on the year including 17 points, 12 rebounds at Ohio State.
Had one of his best league outings going toe-to-toe with Purdue's Big Ten Player of the Year Zach Edey where Reese scored 19 points on 8-of-11 shooting while adding three rebounds and committing zero turnovers.
Reese finished 2022-23 tied for second on the team in scoring at 11.4 points and led the Terps in rebounds (7.2).
In two NCAA Tournament games last year, Reese averaged 15.5 points against West Virginia and No. 1 Alabama.
His 63.2 field goal percentage last season stands as the third-best mark in Maryland program history for a single season.

Forward Julian Reese (10) Maryland Men's Basketball during Basketball B1G Media Day at Target Center in Minneapolis, MN on Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023. Mackenzie Miles/Maryland Terrapins

Julian Reese is averaging 17.0 points and 9.5 rebounds to start the 2023-24 campaign.

Don't Sleep On Donta

Donta Scott became the 59th player in program history to reach 1,000 points last season. Through two games this year, he now has 1,333 points and 712 rebounds. He is also the 17th Terp to post 1,300 points and 600 rebounds in a career.
Darryl Morsell (1,090 points / 510 rebounds / 2018-21) and Anthony Cowan (1,881 points / 508 rebounds / 2017-20) were the most recent Terps to post 1,000/500.
Scott is now 28th all-time in scoring and needs 22 points to move past Tony Massenburg (1354, 1985-90) for 27th. He needs four more boards to pass Albert King (715, 1977-81) for No. 14 all-time.
Additionally, thanks to his fifth season, Scott (131 GP, 116 GS, 3836 MIN.) will have a chance to set Maryland's games played record (141, Jake Layman, 2012-16), the games started record (136, Steve Blake, 1999-03), and minutes played record (4568, Greivis Vasquez, 2006-10).