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Maryland coach Gary Williams didn't call Tuesday night's game here at Assembly Hall a must-win for the Terrapins so early in the season, but he certainly didn't want to look back on the Big Ten/ACC Challenge meeting with the Hoosiers the same way he did on last week's trip to Hawaii.

The Terrapin men's basketball team arrived at Comcast Center on Friday night with their bags packed and ready to spend the night in a hotel before an early Saturday flight to Hawaii for the Maui Invitational.

There will be times Maryland forward Landon Milbourne will be asked to play nearly entire games, remaining on the floor with barely a breather while an outcome is remotely in doubt.

The circumstances surrounding Landon Milbourne's childhood dictated he learn how to cut hair. He grew up on the Eastern Shore where, as he said, 'there wasn't much around as far as a big city and a lot of people,' and his mother owned a hair salon. It took Milbourne time to realize he could perform the craft, but these days he serves as the resident barber of the Maryland men's basketball team.

In fact, nearly every member of the front court Milbourne leads gets his hair cut by the senior forward who always has found sustenance in his ability to adapt to his surroundings. When Maryland squares off against Chaminade on Monday in the first round of the Maui Invitational, Milbourne will jump for the tip and spend most of the game executing a role that would have seemed unimaginable to him three years earlier.

In a perfect world, Jordan Williams and James Padgett wouldn't have to play this much this soon.

Charleston Southern - Maryland Basketball vs. Charleston Southern Live 30 minutes before the game here in the Comcast Center.

Maryland basketball coach Gary Williams said yesterday that backup forward Dino Gregory will rejoin the team for the Dec.

Maryland men's basketball coach Gary Williams announced Thursday that junior Dino Gregory will return to the team Dec.

There was No. 25 Maryland trailing Fairfield by five points on its home court. With 12 minutes left in the first half, the Terps had converted three of 11 shots -- they missed their first five -- and had made zero trips to the foul line.

Forward Jin Soo Choi is nowhere in sight as the Fairfield game is about to begin.

Maryland will be down a big man or three tonight when it hosts Fairfield at Comcast Center, which means a couple of things.

James Padgett wore a perpetual smile as reporters filtered by the round table he shared with Eric Hayes and Jin Soo Choi at the Terrapin men's basketball team's media day last month.

A positive sign for the Maryland basketball team in the first half of Friday night's season opener came in the fact that neither of its senior guards, Greivis Vasquez or Eric Hayes, was very sharp.

5) Eric Hayes senior guard - He struggled with a turf toe injury before practice began but is ready to contribute more in his final season.

Maryland's two freshman forwards figured to act as crucial figures in determining just how much better the Terrapins could be a season after reaching the second round of the NCAA tournament.