COLLEGE PARK, Md. – The ACU Wildcats are back on the road Wednesday night when they take on the highest profile opponent in program history in the Maryland Terrapins at the Comcast Center.
Tipoff is set for 7 p.m. (6 p.m. Abilene time) and can be heard locally on KTLT 98.1 FM or via
acusports.com or
the98x.com. The can be viewed online at
espn3.com or on TV on Fox Sports Southwest Plus in Abilene, Lubbock and San Angelo markets. Wes Durham and Mike Gminski will have the television call, while
Grant Boone will handle the action for ACU radio.
The Wildcats – playing their first season of NCAA?Division I?basketball after moving up in classification and re-joining the Southland Conference (Abilene Christian was a founding member of the league in 1963) after 31 years as an NCAA?Division II program – are 0-2 for the first time under head coach
Joe Golding and for the first time overall since the 2000-01 season. ACU hasn't started a season 0-3 since it went winless (0-26)?in 1990-91.
Maryland is 0-1 on the season after dropping a 78-77 decision to No. 19 Connecticut. The Terrapins have won 35 straight home-openers and head coach Mark Turgeon is 15-0 in home-openers.
Maryland's first year of basketball (1904-05) was played two seasons before Abilene Christian was founded in 1906 as Childers Classical Institute. Maryland won the 2002 NCAA?national title, has made 24 NCAA?Tournament appearances, reached the Final Four twice and captured eight Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC)?championships. This is Maryland's last season in the ACC?before it moves to the Big 10 in 2014-15.
After Wednesday's game, ACU will return to Abilene, but will then hit the road again this weekend when the Wildcats take on Iowa in Iowa City on Sunday afternoon and then TCU in Fort Worth on Tuesday night at Daniel Meyer Coliseum.
