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Terps coast in season opener, 89-51
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Welcome back basketball, how you have been missed.
Friday night marked the official opening of the University of Maryland basketball season with the Terps routing Charleston Southern, 89-51.
Landon Milbourne led the balanced Maryland scoring attack with 16 points, followed closely by Sean Mosley (15 pts), and Jordan Williams (12 pts).
Senior captain and pre-season all-ACC player Greivis Vasquez had 9 points, 13 assists, 4 steals, and 5 rebounds.
Both freshmen, the aforementioned Williams and James Padgett, played well in their college debut. After last year’s consistently undersized team struggled to maintain an inside presence, the sight of Williams (6’10) and Padgett (6’8) scoring in the paint was a welcome sight for all Maryland fans. It will be important for both to gain valuable playing time and experience before Maryland gets into the meat of the season.
Both of the game’s most exciting plays came on the Maryland fast break. The seemingly much improved Sean Mosley was involved in both. On the first play, Adrian Bowie lobbed the ball to Mosley who finished the play with a thunderous one-handed slam dunk, electrifying the Comcast Center crowd. On the other fast break highlight, Greivis Vasquez dribbled down the court and faked a behind the back pass, then threw a real behind the back pass to the trailing Mosley who finished with a layup. Mosley’s offensive game looked much more fluid and consistent than it did all of last year.
Maryland held the Buccaneers to 18-60 (30.3%) shooting from the floor and often disrupted the Charleston Southern offense by pressing for a significant portion of the first half.
It is a positive sign that Maryland beat a team they were supposed to without much worry. Too often last year Maryland would let inferior teams hang around and even lost a few games to teams they had no business losing to.
In attendance on Friday was highly touted recruit Tobias Harris (#5 overall recruit according to Rivals.com). Cheers of “We want Harris” echoed throughout the Comcast Center; several unsubstantiated accounts said that after the game Harris told several people that he was coming to Maryland.
Should Harris join Terrapin commits Terrance Jones (Montrose Christian, Rockville MD), Terrell Stoglin (Santa Rita High School, Tucson, AZ), and Mychal Parker (The Miller School, Charlottesville, VA), Maryland would have one of the top incoming freshmen classes in the country.
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