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Villanova - Maryland vs. Villanova Maryland strikes first as Mosley hits a 3 to open the scoring.

During the first eight games of the season, a time in which senior guard Greivis Vasquez struggled to find his scoring rhythm, he turned his attention to other facets of his game.

The Colonels have already proved they have what it takes to compete with bigger schools from powerhouse conferences.

Blog excerpt from voices.washingtonpost.com/terrapins-insider

Junior forward Dino Gregory started and played 33 minutes Saturday in his first game back from an eight-game suspension. Coach Gary Williams said he did not anticipate Gregory seeing that much court time against Eastern Kentucky, but the circumstances of the game (the pesky Colonels did not fade until the final eight minutes of Maryland's 83-72 win) demanded Williams keep his top players on the floor.

Against an Eastern Kentucky squad that used its big men as its primary long-range threats, that meant Gregory received many of the minutes that otherwise might have been distributed to freshman forwards Jordan Williams and James Padgett. In addition to possessing more experience, Gregory was better suited to guard the Colonels' agile forwards than was Jordan Williams.

For the first time in more than three weeks, Maryland senior guard Greivis Vasquez was made available to speak with reporters, and over the course of 15 minutes Friday at Comcast Center he openly discussed and evaluated his performance thus far in his final collegiate campaign.

'I'm disappointed,' Vasquez said. 'It's horrible. I'm really angry at myself. I've worked too hard. I let so many things bother me, and I wasn't myself. And then we lost three games that we should have won. And it was all because supposedly the best player and the leader of the team didn't do what he needs to be doing, and I take responsibility.'

BALTIMORE -- Fluorescent lights illuminated half the floor at Hoops, a gym not far from where its lone inhabitant on this late August morning grew up. Dino Gregory -- five months removed from the end of a sophomore campaign with the Maryland men's basketball team that had Coach Gary Williams calling him 'as good defensively as any inside player in the ACC in terms of blocking shots and rebounding' -- stretched his legs against a chain-link fence that separated a rubber basketball court from a collection of weightlifting machines.

Maryland looks terrible early on. 2-for-9 so far. Vasquez has 2 early turnovers and was pulled for Adrian Bowie.

Maryland ends a six-day hiatus with a Saturday matinee at home with Eastern Kentucky.

Terrapin men's basketball coach Gary Williams had several possible ready-made excuses at his disposal for explaining his team's rebounding struggles in Sunday's loss to No.

Villanova takes on its first opponent on the opponent's home court.A This will be an important data point in the maturation of a quite new and different Villanova basketball team which finds itself ranked number three in the nation.A The game takes place in DC's Verizon center at 7:30 p.m.A Villanova is no stranger to the Verizon Center with a 6-1 ...

It was around this time last season that Maryland stunned Michigan State -- an important early-season victory that was to later aid the Terps' case for advancing to the NCAA tournament.

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. - Maryland finally figured out how to put away the Indiana University men's basketball team on Tuesday: with a strong closing flurry.

Maryland finally figured out how to put away Indiana on Tuesday. With a strong closing flurry.

The Maryland basketball team found out much about its current state on a trip to the Maui Invitational last week.

LAHAINA, HAWAII -- When Coach Gary Williams wrapped up his postgame news conference -- following a 28-point victory over Chaminade in the first round of the Maui Invitational -- less than 24 hours remained before tip-off against Maryland's semifinal opponent, Cincinnati.

'Our work's cut out for us,' Williams said. 'We've got about 18, 19 hours to get ready, and you can't make a lot of changes. I think the thing you can do is we can play our game, do what we do well. And I'm sure Cincinnati will try to do what they do well. That's what you have to do in this situation, rather than try to change a lot of things, is make sure you go into the game playing well.'

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 just less than three hours, Maryland will square off against Wisconsin in the third-place game of the Maui Invitational.

Yancy Gates scored 17 points and pulled down 13 rebounds as Cincinnati beat 21st-ranked Maryland, 69-57, in the semifinals of the Maui Invitational.

Syracuse's Wesley Johnson, right, grabs a rebound from Cornell's Alex Tyler during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game in Syracuse, N.Y., Tuesday, Nov.

LAHAINA, Hawaii -- Maryland Coach Gary Williams attempted to mask his demeanor with words of praise for his team, as well as for the Division II opponent the Terrapins had just beaten by 28 points. But as Williams sat through the postgame news conference after Maryland's win over Chaminade in the first round of the Maui Invitational, his actions conflicted with the message he tried to put forth.

Questions posed about a first half in which a relatively diminutive Chaminade squad with little depth remained close -- and in fact, led more than midway through -- were cut off before their completion.