Maryland Terrapins Basketball Tickets

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Since head coach Gary Williams came to the program, the Terrapins have made 12 NCAA Tournament appearances, with a title win in 2002. They'll be back for another, and Vivid Seats can give you the NCAA Final Four tickets and NCAA Championship basketball tickets if they do return.

Terrapins Background Information

The Maryland Terrapins basketball teams represent the University of Maryland, College Park. The teams are casually referred to as Terps. The Maryland Terrapins participate in NCAA Division I-A and are attributed to the Atlantic Coast Conference. The mascot of the team is Testudo the Turtle. It first appeared in 1932, after Dr. Curley Byrd proposed that the University's mascot should be a diamondback terrapin. The official and lucky colors of the team are red, black, white, and gold.

The University of Maryland was founded in the year of 1856, however it became the member of the Atlantic Coast Conference in 1953. Between the years 1921 and 1953, the Maryland Terrapins were members of the Southern Conference. In 1953 they left with 6 other Southern Conference Universities in order to establish the Atlantic Coast Conference. Other sports played by the Maryland Terrapins include in the mens program: baseball, cross-country, football, golf, lacrosse, soccer, swimming, tennis, track and field and wrestling. Besides the kinds of sports enumerated, the women are also trained in field hockey, softball, gymnastics, volleyball and water polo.