COLLEGE PARK, MD -- Maryland’s three-game homestand rolls on Monday night, and the next stop brings Alcorn State to XFINITY Center for a 6 p.m. tip on BTN.
The Terps will be back in the same building again Friday night, when Wagner comes to town to close out the homestand. That game is set for 7 p.m. and will stream on B1G+.
Maryland has handled Alcorn State every time the programs have met, going 4-0 in the all-time series. The Terps beat the Braves 84-64 at XFINITY Center last season, and this will be the fourth straight year Maryland has hosted the matchup.
The first meeting came on Dec. 30, 1989 at Cole Field House, a 110-91 Maryland win. Across the four previous games, the Terps have averaged 98.8 points.
The Wagner series has also gone Maryland’s way, with the Terps holding a 4-0 edge there as well. Last year’s meeting ended in an 89-63 Maryland victory.
Andre Mills has already picked up right where he left off. In the season opener against Bucknell, he scored 22 points and grabbed 11 rebounds for his second double-double.
Mills’ rise has been steady since he redshirted his true freshman year at Texas A&M in 2024-25. Last season at Maryland, he averaged 12.2 points and 4.1 rebounds in 33 games, including 25 starts. He also posted four games of 20 points or more and reached the 30-point mark twice.
His biggest night came at Northwestern, where he poured in a career-high 39 points to tie the program record for most points by a freshman in a single game, matching Diamond Stone’s effort against Penn State in 2015. Since 1994, only four freshmen have scored 30 or more in a game, and Mills is just the second, alongside Hall of Fame inductee Joe Smith, to do it twice in a freshman season.
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