The 2022–23 Maryland Terrapins men's basketball team represented the

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in the

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. They were led by first-year head coach

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. They played their home games at Xfinity Center in

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, as members of the

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. With a new head coach and coming off their first losing season in 29 years, the bar for this group was quite low. However, thanks to a dominant 8-0 start, dominating wins over Miami and Saint Louis, and a home win against a ranked conference foe Illinois, they reached as high as #13 in the AP poll. They did suffer some lopsided losses but played exceptionally well at home; they were the only team in the BIG 10 to have a perfect home record in the conference, where they finished 11-9 in a 3-way tie for fifth place. They earned an 8-seed in the NCAA tournament and beat West Virginia in the first round before falling to overall number 1 seed Alabama.

Previous season

The

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finished the 2021–22 season 15–17, 7–13 in Big Ten play to finish in a three-way tie for 10th place. As the No. 10 seed in the Big Ten tournament, they lost to

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in the second round. On December 3, 2021, head coach

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and the school announced that the parties had mutually agreed that Turgeon would step down as head coach effective immediately.

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, who had been hired as an assistant prior to the season, was named the interim head coach for the remainder of the season. On March 21, 2022, the school named

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head coach Kevin Willard the team's new head coach.

Offseason

Player departures

Incoming transfers

Recruiting classes

2022 recruiting class

2023 recruiting class

Roster

Schedule and results

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Rankings

*AP does not release post-NCAA Tournament rankings.

References

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