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The Maryland Terrapins, making their Big Ten debut this season, will be hoping to rebound from a lackluster 2013-14 campaign that saw them finish with a pedestrian 17-15 mark, missing out on the Big Dance and failing to even qualify for the NIT.

Head coach Mark Turgeon sits firmly on the hot seat entering his fourth season at the helm in College Park, with a fanbase growing increasingly agitated by the lack of NCAA tournament bids under his leadership.

The Terrapins haven’t been dancing since the 2009-10 season, and they’ll need to rely heavily on freshmen in order to get there this year.

That seems like a tall task.

But given the top-tier nature of Turgeon’s incoming recruiting class and the return of last year’s leading scorer Dez Wells and fellow starters Evan Smotrycz—who could miss the beginning of the season with a left ankle sprain—and Jake Layman, this is a team that could surprise a few people and play meaningful games in March.

Read on for your complete preview and prediction for the 2014-15 Maryland Terrapins.