Box Score COLLEGE PARK, Md. – The Maryland Terrapins led from start-to-finish against Bowie State, cruising to an 89-47 exhibition win over the Bulldogs.
PHOTOS Junior
Justin Beck (Baltimore, Md.) paced the Bulldogs with team-highs of 10 points and six rebounds. Junior
Andre Jackson (Baltimore, Md.) added nine points which included a perfect 4-for-4 at the free throw line while fellow junior
Julian Livingston (Bowie, Md.) contributed six points.
When asked about Bowie State's overall performance, sixth year head coach
Darrell Brooks said, ""I thought that in the first half we shot very poorly and I know we are a much better shooting team. You have to give their defense credit and I thought we just missed some shots that were open that we should have made. I thought that at times we let the lack of shooting affect how we played in other areas of the game, which we cannot allow to happen. I thought we played hard."
Maryland shot 57.8 percent from the field (26-for-45) compared to 22.2 percent (16-for-63) for Bowie State. The Bulldogs shot well at the charity stripe, knocking down 14-of-19.
Jack Layman led four Terps in double figure scoring, pumping in 18 points on 7-of-8 shooting to go along with seven rebounds. Dion Wiley and Jared Nickens added 13 and 12 points respectively for Maryland and Dez Wells tallied 11 points on the afternoon.
In terms of playing in a big arena against Maryland, Brooks said, "I really like [Turgeon's] team and they play very hard. The good thing for them is that they have young guards, but they are only going to get better and better. We were beaten by the better team, but it is nice to know we are still 0-0 and nobody got hurt. Whenever we play in an arena like this against a program like Maryland, we just have to play better, especially on the offensive end. We will be better and we look forward to getting back to work on Monday and opening up the regular season next weekend."
The Bulldogs open the regular season on Friday (November 14th) versus Millersville in the opening game of the Lincoln (Pa.) University Classic. Tip time is set for 6 pm.