Back on the road as No. 18 Terps takes Buckeyes Thursday night

No. 18/24 Maryland (17-5, 7-4 b1g) on Ohio State (13-9, 5-6 B1G)

February 6, 2025

7pm

Value City Arena

College Park, MD – No. 18 Maryland seems to win its fifth consecutive match on Thursday night as Terps goes to Ohio State. The game will be TV -Sej on FS1 (19:00) and fans can also listen to the game on Maryland Sports Radio Network with Terps Voice Johnny Holliday To call the action with Chris Knoche.

Maryland has now won four straight matches, six of its last seven, and has three top-25 wins on his resume for the season.

The Terps are ranked No. 15 in the NCAA network, No. 18 in Kenpom -Ratings, No. 15 in Torvik ranking, No. 12 on Evanmiya.com and No. 19 on ESPN Basketball Power Index.

Last time winning three consecutive road games was 2019-20 when Maryland won four straight road games: in Northwestern (1/21), in Indiana (1/26), in Illinois (2/7) and in Michigan State (2 /15). It was part of a nine game win.

Big Note: The Big Five

  • Maryland is one of four major conference programs with all five starters scoring double figures while starting at least 50 percent of the team’s games. Participation in Terps is Arizona State, Kentucky and Michigan. Terps’ five consists of: Derik Queen (15.0), Yes’kobi Gillespie (14.6), Julian Reese (13.7), Rodney Rice (12.7), Selton Miguel (11.5).
  • Maryland’s five starters – the team’s five leading scorers – have a total scoring average of 67.6, the highest among all major conference programs. Next on the list of larger conference programs, Villanova is with a total average of 66.6. Only Bryant (68.2) and UNC Asheville (68.0) have a higher scoring average among all five top scorers in the entire Division I.
Team picture

Maryland Average 83.0 points per Battle, which is the 10th best brand in the program history.

Yes’kobi shows the range

  • Since I came to Terps, Yes’kobi Gillespie Has scored in double in 18 of his 22 games played.
  • Against UCLA No. 22, Gillespie set a season high with 27 points that went 4-of-8 from deep and 9-of-9 from the charity stripe. He also had four assists and one season high four steals in the victory.
  • Against Marquette No. 15, Gillespie had 24 points that went 10-of-17 from the floor and 4-of-9 from three-point reach. The total amount was only two shy to match his career high at 26 points scored against southern Illinois (14/14/24) when he was at Belmont.
  • Gillespie leads the team with 104 total assists (4.7 per match), giving him 316 for his career. He put a new career mound with 11 in the victory over Syracuse as part of his first career double double (17 points). The 11 assists were mostly of a Maryland player in a game since Melo Trimble had 12 against North Carolina (12/2/15).
  • His 4.7 assists per Cambicrom 6. In B1g.
  • Gillespie now has 1,058 career points between Belmont and Maryland through 79 total career games game. He scored his 1,000. Career point of a Summer-beaten three-point before the break of Nebraska (1/19) victory.
  • A highly sad football prospectus while in high school, Gillespie received offers from ACC and SEC programs at Gridiron. As a broad recipient, Defensive Back and Special Teams Return, he pulled off a touchdown Trifecta with a receiving touchdown, a Pick-Six and a point return in a single game.
Yes'kobi Gillespie

Juju Beast

  • Julian Reese Entered the 2024-25 campaign as one of the best post players in the Big Ten and national. Last season, he earned all-BIG TEN HONORABLE REVIEW HONEST AS JUNIOR AFTER HAVE BEEN DECLOSED AS PRESEASON ALL-BIG TEN team and to Karl Malone Power Foreward of the Year Award monitoring list.
  • Reese released 15 double dubs last season, which was the ninth most nationally and was in second place in the Big Ten during the regular season.
  • All-time, Reese has the eighth most double doubles for any terp (31).
  • Reese is one of nine players in the program history to place over 1,100 career points and 800 career tasks.
  • Despite having a talented group of high scoring guards and the addition of Derik Queen to the front track, Julian Reese Have almost matched his career high totals from last season. Even more impressive is that Reese has hit these brands that play 5.0 fewer minutes per minute. Battle than last year.
  • In addition, his 3.2 offensive rebounds per Match number two in the Big Ten and is mostly for a Maryland player since James Padgett average 3.3 in 2011-12.
Julian Reese at Rutgers

Queen is the truth

Derik Queen