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No. 9 Maryland @Towson Tuesday, 7p.m. Junior forward Alyssa Thomas registered the first triple double of her career with 11 points, 11 assists and 12 rebounds as No. 9 Maryland dismantled visiting George Mason, 90-40, on Saturday at Comcast Center. Marissa Coleman had the only other triple double in program history, in 2006. Tianna Hawkins, who leads the Atlantic Coast Conference in scoring at 19 points per game, added a game-high 27 points along with seven rebounds for the Terps (6-2)

Baltimore Sun reporters Jeff Barker and Don Markus and editor Matt Bracken weigh in on the three biggest topics of the past week in Maryland  sports. Maryland begins Atlantic Coast Conference play in less than a month. Where do you see the Terps finishing? Jeff Barker: Let's begin with a caveat. In the last week, coach Mark Turgeon has seemed to take issue with media members and fans ready to proclaim the Terps a top team. “I just think our perception is a lot better than reality right now with us,” the coach said.

Comcast Center will once again be the site of mystery. For the second straight game, the Maryland men's basketball team will have an altered starting lineup when the Terps take the court Saturday at 2 p.m. against South Carolina State. And coach Mark Turgeon is keeping his potential lineup close to the chest. "I know who I want to start," Turgeon said at Friday. "But we'll see if it happens that way. " Whatever the lineup, the Terps (7-1) hope the results will be the same as when a starting five consisting of three freshman - Jake Layman, Shaquille Cleare and Seth Allen - senior James Padgett and sophomore Dez Wells led a 100-68 thrashing of winless UMES on Wednesday night.

With the combined strength of Selina Mann, Sydney Henderson and Jacqueline Brewer, Mount St. Mary's claimed a 62-58 victory over visiting UMES (1-4) in women's basketball Wednesday. Mann finished with 20 points and nine rebounds, while Henderson posted 13 points and 12 rebounds in the win. The Mount (2-4) held a lead throughout the second half but lost it in the last minute as the Hawks (1-4) tied the game at 58. With 38 seconds remaining, Brewer, a transfer from Virginia Commonwealth making her first start for the Mountaineers, gave them the lead on two free throws.

Welcome back to Morning Shootaround, a regular feature this season the day after Maryland basketball games. While we can't bring you into the Terps' lockerroom after games - reporters haven't been allowed in there since the last couple of years under Gary Williams - we will recap what was said in the press conference afterward by Maryland coach Mark Turgeon and his players. We will give some of our own insight into what transpired on the court during the previous night's game and what the Terps will be working on at practice looking ahead to their next game.

COLLEGE PARK - The busiest person at Comcast Center on Wednesday night may have been the public-address announcer, who spent the evening announcing wave after wave of Maryland substitutions - sometimes five players at a time. The competitive portion of the night ended quickly as Maryland, which gave three freshmen their first starts, bolted to a big lead and overwhelmed winless Maryland Eastern Shore with its size and passing , 100-68. It was the seventh straight win for the Terps (7-1)

College football Del. St. QB Elko is MEAC's best offensive player Delaware State senior quarterback Nick Elko (Arundel) was named the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Offensive Player of the Year and made the All-MEAC first team. He completed 259 passes on 412 attempts with 15 touchdowns. The second team included Morgan State senior running back Travis Davidson , Morgan State junior defensive back Joe Rankin , Morgan State freshman linebacker Elandon Roberts and North Carolina Central senior defensive lineman Xavier Proctor (Mount Hebron)

  Robert Olson hit two 3-pointers during a 12-1 Loyola first-half run, and the Greyhounds built a double-digit lead before the break in a 65-49 win over Norfolk State (2-2) in the first game of the Basketball Hall Of Fame Tip-Off Tournament at Mohegan Sun Arena on Saturday. Loyola will play the winner Albany today in the Springfield Bracket championship game at 2 p.m. Dylon Cormier (Cardinal Gibbons) led the Greyhounds (3-1) with a game-high 19 points, making seven of his 11 shots from the field.

Rashad Whack scored a career-high 20 points as the Mount St. Mary's men's basketball team rallied to a 70-63 win over Hartford in the home opener at Knott Arena on Tuesday night. It was the first career victory for first-year coach Jamion Christian, at age 30 the fifth-youngest head coach in Division I. Trailing 53-48 with 9:33 remaining in the game, the Mount (1-1) went on a 12-0 run over the next 1:21 to take a 60-53 advantage. Whack kick-started the stretch with a 3-pointer, then Josh Castellanos tied the game on a layup after a Hartford miss.

A former leader of a national group of public universities has been named the interim president of Coppin State University, the state university system announced Wednesday. Mortimer H. Neufville, who until June had served as the interim president of University of Maryland Eastern Shore, will become the interim president Jan. 23 when the current president, Reginald S. Avery, steps down. Avery received a vote of no confidence from the faculty last year. He pledged to increase the university's low graduation rate when he arrived in 2008, only to see it continue to fall.