Maryland men’s basketball at No. 10 Michigan State preview

After Maryland men’s basketball managed just 70 points against Illinois, the Terps’ 96-point scoring burst against Penn State seems all but confirmed to be an anomaly.

Maryland has struggled to find any sort of consistency in its scoring. Diggy Coit scored 15, but his touch was off — he went 1-of-8 from deep. Andre Mills led the Terps with 16 points, a figure he hadn’t hit since playing Alcorn State.

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The Terps desperately need to figure out how to score points. Their next opponents, No. 11 Michigan State, give up fewer points than anyone else in the country. Thus is life for the Terps in their first year under head coach Buzz Williams.

Maryland will take on the Spartans at noon Saturday, with the game set to air on CBS.

No. 10 Michigan State Spartans (17-2, 7-1 Big Ten)

2024-25 record: 30-7, 17-3 Big Ten

Head coach Tom Izzo was the last person to bring a national title to the Big Ten, when he brought the Spartans to the promised land in 2000. A quarter century later, Izzo persists. And in what looks to be the Big Ten’s best chance to win another title in quite some time, he has the Spartans again looking like a top contender.

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That wasn’t expected ahead of this season, though. Michigan State lost three of its top four guards from the 2024-25 season and six impactful minute-getters overall. Their highly-touted transfer, forward Kaleb Glenn, tore his patellar tendon in June and is out for the year.

Under Izzo’s veteran leadership, Michigan State has rallied the troops and gone on a tear. The team’s only losses have come to No. 5 Duke and No. 7 Nebraska by a combined eight points, and they already have three ranked wins. They look set to prolong Maryland’s barren run in East Lansing, where the Terps have only won once in the last decade.

Players to watch

Jaxon Kohler, senior forward, 6-foot-10, No. 0 — Kohler has averaged just under a double-double fairly quietly — about as quietly as one can possibly almost average a double-double. His…

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