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New Hampshire - Maryland Basketball vs. New Hampshire Live in College Park, 20 minutes to tip and the Terps are doing sprints while NH is doing a layup drill.

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.

The Terrapin men's basketball team missed five shots and turned the ball over twice in Tuesday's win against Fairfield before guard Eric Hayes finally connected on a 3-pointer almost three minutes into the game.

Landon Milbourne scored a career-high 24 points, and No. 25 Maryland cruised past New Hampshire 82-55 Friday night in the Terrapins' final tuneup for the Maui Invitational.

Terrapin men's basketball coach Gary Williams cleared some of the mystery surrounding forward Dino Gregory's suspension yesterday afternoon when he confirmed an earlier report the junior is expected to return for the team's Dec.

Maryland was trailing Fairfield by five points on its home court Tuesday night. With 12 minutes left in the first half, the 25th-ranked Terps had converted three of 11 shots - they missed their first five - and made zero trips to the foul line.

When Terrapin men's basketball coach Gary Williams worked at American in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the team's reputation for guard-oriented play made it tough to recruit quality post players.

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.

Greivis Vasquez has no doubt he could be making a living in the NBA right now. The Terrapin men's basketball team's outspoken leader said his choice in June to withdraw from the professional draft came down to the wire.

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Earlier this week, Terrapin men's basketball coach Gary Williams expressed concern that a major blowout win in exhibition play would not do his team much good.

Most of the evening's compelling story lines came before the Terps made 10 of their first 11 shots in dispatching Indiana , 75-54. Maryland announced before the game that power forward Dino Gregory , a likely starter, would miss the game for violating team rules.

Jordan Williams made a hard move toward the Comcast Center basket and exploded upward for what seemed like an uncontested lay-in during Saturday's Terrapin men's basketball intrasquad scrimmage.

It was unnecessary to remind Maryland guard Greivis Vasquez of the limited avenues his team could travel a year ago to secure a measure of success.

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Coach: Gary Williams . Last season's record: 21-14 overall, 7-9 in the ACC . Postseason: Lost in second round of NCAA tournament to Memphis.

Maryland fans waited anxiously Monday as the five o' clock deadline for players to withdraw from the NBA draft neared.