Maryland
3 Maryland Players Michigan State Must Contain
Michigan State basketball is back in East Lansing after its lengthy trip on the West Coast.
The 10th-ranked Spartans took down both Washington and Oregon by double-digits. That places MSU at 17-2 overall and 7-1 during Big Ten play. Michigan State’s only conference loss was by two points at current No. 7 Nebraska; the Cornhuskers are still a perfect 19-0 with a Big Ten-leading 8-0 conference record.
Next up for MSU is a home game against Maryland. The Terrapins are having a rough go so far during their first year with head coach Buzz Williams, who was previously at Texas A&M. UMD will enter Saturday’s game (noon ET, CBS) with an 8-11 overall record and a mere 1-7 mark during conference play. Maryland hasn’t beaten a team ranked inside KenPom’s top 100 teams yet.
While Michigan State is a heavy favorite — KenPom gives the Spartans a 96% chance to win — the game still gets played for a reason. The Terrapins have a few players who can cause trouble on any given day. Here are three of them:
G David Coit
Leading the charge for Maryland is graduate point guard David Coit. He’s averaging 15.4 points per game, but he just recently had a 43-point explosion during the Terrapins’ game against Penn State this past Sunday. Coit is a well-traveled player, beginning his career at Atlantic Cape CC, becoming an all-MAC player at Northern Illinois, spending last season at Kansas, and then transferring to UMD this past offseason.
Coit is one of the best shooters that Michigan State will have game planned for thus far. He’s made about 39% of his shots from beyond the arc so far, and that’s with some serious volume: 7.1 three-point shots per game. As of Thursday, his 53 made threes rank third in the Big Ten.
G Darius Adams
One familiar face, at least to those who follow Michigan State recruiting, is former five-star prospect Darius Adams. MSU and Tom Izzo recruited him, with Adams officially visiting in September 2024, but he ended up choosing UConn at first before flipping to Maryland.
Adams has been an instant contributor for the Terrapins so far. He’s averaging 12.3 points per game, but appears to be working out his shot, as he’s made just 34% of his shots from the field and only about 25% of his attempts from three.
F Solomon Washington
One player Williams brought with him from Texas A&M is forward Solomon Washington. In the absence of forward Pharrel Payne, who averaged 17.5 points and 7.2 rebounds per game, but has missed the last eight games due to an injury, Washington has been Maryland’s most productive big man.
The 6-foot-7, 220-pound senior has been nearly averaging a double-double through 11 games this season (Washington didn’t play in UMD’s first eight games), averaging 9.8 points and 9.5 rebounds. He and Michigan State four-man Jaxon Kohler should be an interesting individual battle.
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HYATTSVILLE, Md. — The parents of a 7-year-old first grader with autism are demanding answers from Prince George’s County Public Schools after their son suffered a severe leg fracture while at school — an injury no one has been able to explain.
Daevian Donaldson, a student at Felegy Elementary School in Hyattsville, is recovering from surgery after his femur was snapped and displaced during class last Friday, according to his parents, Daechele Kaufman and Anthony Donaldson.
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Kaufman said the day began normally as she dropped Daevian and his twin brother off for first grade. Around 9 a.m., she received an alarming phone call from the school.
“They just said he was on the floor screaming and didn’t want anyone to touch him,” Kaufman said.
She rushed to the school and found her son with obvious trauma to his leg. Neither staff nor Daevian — who communicates differently because he is on the autism spectrum — could explain how the injury occurred, she said.
Doctors later confirmed the severity of the injury through X-rays.
“When I saw the X-ray and one of the nurses said he was going to need surgery, all these wheels started turning,” Kaufman said.
Daevian Donaldson, a student at Felegy Elementary School in Hyattsville, is recovering from surgery after his femur was snapped and displaced during class, according to his parents. (7News)
The parents said they later learned Daevian’s regular teacher was attending a meeting at the time, and the special-needs classroom was being supervised by a substitute. They said no clear explanation has been provided for how a child could suffer such a serious injury without staff noticing what happened.
“It’s definitely neglect,” Kaufman said. “You can’t turn away and come back and say, ‘Oh, you fell,’ for a major injury like that. That’s not acceptable.”
After the family raised concerns publicly, Prince George’s County Public Schools issued a statement saying the district is investigating the incident and has placed the staff member involved on administrative leave.
Anthony Donaldson said that response does not go far enough.
“It needs to be more than one person on administrative leave,” he said. “Several people need to be evaluated on how they’re trained, or they need to be fired.”
Daevian is continuing to recover after surgery but is still experiencing pain, his parents said. As the interview concluded, the 7-year-old quietly asked for his medication.
The family said they want accountability — and assurances that other children, especially those with special needs, will be kept safe.
The St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office is reporting that a 62-year-old man died in a barn fire at his home in Chaptico, Md. It’s believed that the victim was actor Bobby J. Brown, who starred on “The Wire.”
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