Official Maryland Terps Thread 3.0

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In dream season, Terps freshman Melo Trimble turning fantasy into reality



As the video board at Xfinity Center flashed above the Maryland men's basketball team's darkened court, freshman Melo Trimble found himself looking up and thinking back to when he was a little kid in Prince George's County, rooting for the Terps.

It was a dream then for Trimble, a fantasy about the day he could wear the uniform of Juan Dixon and Steve Blake. Even now, as he watches his former heroes reappear overhead in moments from some of the program's glory years before games, Trimble goes back in time.

"I see Steve Blake taking the ball from Jay Williams, and that just always gives me chills," said Trimble, sitting on a bench at practice Tuesday. "Not too many people talk about Maryland. I just see that video and I think to myself: 'There've been a lot of great teams, and I want us to be one of those teams.' "

Then the screen goes black and his likeness appears, the home crowd roaring for Maryland's newest star. A smile on his face, a bounce in his step, Trimble is the first player introduced. Someday, he'll likely be the last, a designation typically reserved for the most accomplished Terp.

For now, Trimble is happy to let that honor belong to senior guard Dez Wells, who told his young teammate before the season that, as a point guard, he had to become one of Maryland's leaders.

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Isaiah Prince update:

Alabama coaches visited Prince and aren't confident he'll stay committed.

Edsall and Locksley visit Prince in-home tonight...and then he'll visit MD for the weekend.

Looks like this is going to be a MD-OSU battle.

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Isaiah Prince commits to Alabama: Maryland loses out on top in-state prospect


Maryland has lost out on their biggest remaining target in the 2015 class, as four-star local offensive tackle Isaiah Prince committed to Alabama, Ryan Bartow is reporting. The Eleanor Roosevelt (Md.) prospect is considered the best player in the state of Maryland, and would have made it three out of four years that the Terps landed the top in-state player (Stefon Diggs, Damian Prince). The prospect has reportedly canceled visits to both Ohio State and Maryland.

Prince is rated a four-star prospect by the 247Sports composite, ranking as the No. 105 prospect in the class and the seventh-best offensive tackle in the country. He chose the Tide over offers from Ohio State, Alabama, Florida and Penn State, among others.

Prince would have given the Terrapins three blue-chip commitments in the class, joining defensive tackle Adam McLean and interior offensive lineman Quarvez Boulware (whose commitment status is up in the air, to say the least). His commitment would have also given Maryland four blue-chip offensive linemen over the past two classes, all of which would be freshmen this season. Three is still nothing to scoff at, but Prince would have particularly helped on the outside at tackle.

No surprise that he didn't choose Maryland.

I won't be surprised if Damian Prince or others transfer from Maryland. D Prince was a 5-star recruit who ended up redshirting--unless he played late in the season.

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Lady Terps Recruits, Men's Prospect Chosen for McDonald's Game


Both University of Maryland women's basketball recruits, Kiah Gillespie and Brianna Fraser, were named McDonald's All-Americans tonight. Fraser, a 6-foot-3 forward from Brooklyn, is ranked third-ranked forward and 15th-best overall player in the Class of 2015 according to ESPN.com. Gillespie, a 6-foot-1 forward from Hartford, Conn., is ranked the No. 26 player overall and No 6. forward.

On the men's side, the Terps' highest-profile prospect in 2015, Milwaukee center Diamond Stone, was selected as well. Stone, the top-rated center in the Class of 2015 per the 247Sports Composite, is choosing between Maryland, Wisconsin, UConn and Oklahoma State. Maryland was once thought to be a longshot in his recruitment, the that no longer appears to be the case.

The McDonald's All-American games, high school basketball's preeminent all-star event, will be played April 1 in Chicago.

[Chocolate City Jordanaire]

This should make you smile CCJ.


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Very happy!

Wizardspride, I salute you.


Could there still be some hope???

I found this on an OSU site: http://www.cleveland.com/osu/index.ssf/ ... ce_an.html

• Four-star OT Isaiah Prince of Greenbelt (Md.) Eleanor Roosevelt – The 6-foot-6, 272-pound prospect was once really high on Ohio State, but he unexpectedly committed to Alabama in late January. That should have been the end of it, but Prince actually made an official visit to Ohio State this past weekend. Becuase he's still committed, Alabama has to be the favorite, but Ohio State and in-state Maryland are still both in play for the stud offensive tackle.

Nothing from nothing leaves nothing. I have no expectation he will be playing in College Park, but it would be nice IF ...

[mzaretsk]

big game tonight. gameplan - start pack, put dez on russell, get melo to fight through screens, re-engage dodzilla. technically, i've already chalked this up as a loss...just dont want to see another blowout.

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[long suffrin' boulez fan]

Man. This was the first UMD game I've seen from start to finish this year. They looked good vs MSU... But tonight? Yuck. Stupid decision after stupid decision. Like throughout the Turgeon era, I have no idea what they are trying to accomplish on offense.

[Ruzious]

Just totally outclassed in every way. You can't leave Ohio State shooters wide open for 3's, and they got destroyed on the boards. Russell is all that and then some. He is the best player in college basketball - by a wide margin. Dude had 14 rebounds while nobody on MD had even half that. MD was not ready for prime time.

[Chocolate City Jordanaire]

Dez Wells looked really shaky. Referees pretty much limited Trimble by allowing OSU to grab, bump, and hack with no fouls called. Maryland’s big men were totally dominated by stronger, quicker, much more physical OSU players. Refs also let OSU stay in the lane more than three seconds and also let them push in the back.

Maryland was awful and the refs made it worse.

[Dat2U]

Just totally outclassed in every way. You can't leave Ohio State shooters wide open for 3's, and they got destroyed on the boards. Russell is all that and then some. He is the best player in college basketball - by a wide margin. Dude had 14 rebounds while nobody on MD had even half that. MD was not ready for prime time.

Russell is the truth. Best guard in college I think. Better prospect than many of the recent guards drafted in the lottery IMO.

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4-star local prospect has Maryland in top 5


Four-star 2016 wide receiver Tino Ellis of DeMatha (Md.) has set his announcement date for July 31, 2015, he announced via Twitter on Thursday evening. He also announced his current top five which are, in no order, Maryland, Rutgers, West Virginia, Wake Forest, and Virginia Tech.

Ellis is a ranked by Rivals.com as the No. 133 overall prospect in the nation in his class, including the No. 28 wide receiver and the No. 7 prospect in the state of Maryland. Maryland currently has three commits in the class of 2016, two of whom are teammates of Ellis at DeMatha -- running back Lorenzo Harrison and athlete Darryl Turner.

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2016 Terps commit DJ Turner (DeMatha)

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Maryland women’s basketball is unbeaten in Big Ten but focused on No. 20 Iowa



It’s been 30 years since a women’s basketball team from the Big Ten went undefeated over 18 conference games. Fifth-ranked Maryland is halfway there in its inaugural season and showing it’s by far the class of the conference after having beaten three of the other four ranked Big Ten schools.

The Terrapins (18-2, 9-0) will face the last of the Big Ten’s ranked teams Sunday when No. 20 Iowa (17-3, 8-1) comes to Xfinity Center, and the winner will own the inside track on the top seed in the conference tournament. For Maryland, a triumph also would mean moving closer to matching Ohio State’s 18-0 Big Ten record in 1984-85 under Tara VanDerveer, now at Stanford.

The game resonates on somewhat of a personal level as well for Terrapins Coach Brenda Frese. She grew up Cedar Rapids, roughly a half-hour from the Iowa campus. Frese coached against the Hawkeyes once before, a 94-83 victory in 2002 during her only season at Minnesota. Her next stop was College Park.

“It’s not even something I consider at this point,” Frese said about going undefeated. “I mean, there are too many games that are left and remaining and too much great competition. For us, my next focus is on finding how can we beat Iowa. They’re a really good team, senior-led team.”

Still, the prospect of a perfect Big Ten regular season hardly seems unattainable given Maryland’s victory margin of nearly 15 points per game against ranked teams in the conference. All of those wins have come on the road, too, most recently against No. 22 Rutgers, 71-59, on Jan. 15. Maryland also beat No. 16 Nebraska and No. 23 Minnesota.

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Adam McLean takes lead role in Maryland football ‘Movement’ before National Signing Day

Just six days after he had surgery to repair the torn anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee, Adam McLean arrived at the Kaiser Permanente medical center in Gaithersburg ready to work. It was his first day of physical therapy, and the session was barely a half-hour old when he pulled out his phone and snapped a photo of his scarred knee. Then he sent it out to more than 3,000 Twitter followers, telling them that he could bend the leg 72 degrees and that he couldn’t wait to play college football for Maryland next season.

It was a simple yet calculated message from McLean, the highly-touted Quince Orchard defensive lineman who is expected to officially become a Terrapin on Wednesday when he signs his letter-of-intent on National Signing Day. He added a “#MarylandPride” hashtag to his tweet for good measure — a bit of branding for Maryland’s homegrown recruiting movement, which he became a self-appointed ambassador for after flipping his commitment from Penn State to Maryland last fall.

“McLean is a guy that everyone knows,” said Mike Farrell, national recruiting director for the recruiting Web site Rivals.com. “He’s always been a friendly kid. But I think there’s a maturity about him and a sense of pride in his state that has taken over since he flipped.”

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Caleb got that cannon.

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