6B • THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
SPORTS
THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 2002
Maryland to open against Harlem Globetrotters
From Staff Reports
The Diamondback via U-Wire
The University of Maryland
COLLEGE PARK, Md. - The defending national champions will open their new gym against a worldly opponent.
The Maryland Terrapin men's basketball team announced its 2002-03 schedule Sunday. The 27-game slate also includes an exhibition against the Harlem Globetrotters Nov.12 in the Comcast Center's first basketball game.
The non-conference schedule appears, on paper, to be tougher than recent Terp agendas. The first official game at the Comcast Center will be Nov. 24 against Miami (Ohio), a competent mid-major program. Another testy mid-major opponent lurks Jan.
8. The 15th-seeded Hampton Pirates garnered national recognition in the 2001 NCAA tournament by upsetting No. 2-seeded Iowa State. Last season Hampton defeated North Carolina in the regular season.
Highlighting the non-conference schedule is a potential four-game stretch against teams that could be Top 25 programs this season. The run begins Dec. 3 when the Terps travel to Indianapolis for a rematch of last season's title match with Indiana. The game is part of the annual ACC/Big Ten Challenge.
The Turps will be looking for their first victory away from the Metropolitan area in the four-year history of the tournament. In 2000, the Terps traveled to Milwaukee, Wisc., and were
Four days later, the Terps will play Notre Dame in the first round of the BB&T Classic at the MCI Center in Washington. A possible matchup with Texas the next day looms, and the scenario would pit the Terps against two of the nation's best point guards, sophomores Chris Thomas of Notre Dame and T.J. Ford of Texas.
defeated 78-75 in overtime by Wisconsin.
The contest against Notre Dame will be a homecoming of sorts for former Terp Danny Miller. The senior forward transferred to play his final season with the Irish before last year.
Rounding out the four-game stretch will be a game at the Comcast Center against perennial power Florida.
2002 tough for Greene
The Associated Press
pean champion Dwain Chambers, Tim Montgomery and two-time Olympic silver medalist Frank Fredericks.
LONDON — It's been a tough 2002 for Maurice Greene, who isn't accustomed to finishing second—much less fifth.
Greene, who owns the world record of 9.79 seconds, vows to be back at his best Friday in a meet at Crystal Palace. He'll face a strong field that includes Euro-
The Olympic and world champion at 100 meters has lost three times this season and he blames some of his problems on deaths in the family and a falling out with his shoe sponsor.
"I'm telling you I'm going to win this one," Greene, of Kansas City, Kan., said Tuesday. "When you say something, you have to live up to it. So we'll see if I can do it or not. It also depends on how you come back from a loss. Watch me come back from this one."
In his most recent race, Greene was fifth in the dash at the Weltklasse Golden League meet in Zurich, Switzerland, finishing in 10.10.Montgomery won in 9.98.
The 28-year-old Greene was second to Chambers on June 28 in Norway and sixth in a secondtier meet two days later in England.
But he acknowledges he hasn't been at his best and says he's been distracted by deaths of a grandmother and uncle, a late start in training, and an acrimonious end to his relationship with Nike.
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