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No. 21 Maryland men’s basketball’s road woes continue in 73-62 loss to Ohio State
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No. 21 Maryland males’s basketball has the perfect dwelling report within the Huge Ten and is tied for the worst on the highway.
Head coach Kevin Willard insisted his crew is “shut” to profitable on the highway main as much as Maryland’s highway matchup with Ohio State. After an additional time loss at Nebraska and a detailed loss at Michigan State, he wasn’t fallacious. However for a crew vying for a prime seed within the Huge Ten Match, shut doesn’t lower it.
Towards Ohio State on Wednesday evening in Columbus, Ohio, Maryland wasn’t significantly shut, because the Buckeyes managed Maryland all sport en path to a 73-62 win.
“This one’s disappointing,” Willard stated. “We simply regarded very torpid, which hasn’t been this crew, so that is sort of disappointing.”
Maryland moved to 1-8 in convention highway video games this season and 11-8 general with its season finale at Penn State on Sunday.
Maryland’s begin mirrored nearly each sport it’s performed away from Faculty Park in convention play this season: an unsightly, discombobulated offensive effort that led to a deficit throughout the first jiffy.
Maryland averages 12 fewer factors on the highway than at dwelling. That exceptional distinction was evident early as Maryland took ill-advised photographs and was out-of-sorts offensively. After flattening 14 threes in its final win over Northwestern in Faculty Park on Sunday, Maryland missed its first three 3-pointers Wednesday.
Maryland briefly led 4-2, however Ohio State ripped off a 12-0 run to present the Buckeyes a 10-point lead lower than 4 minutes in, prompting Willard to burn a timeout.
“[We] simply did some issues early on within the sport once more that, you understand, you simply scratch your head,” Willard stated.
The Terps went on a run themselves in an try to claw again within the sport, however a stretch of 4 Maryland turnovers in three minutes allowed Ohio State to keep up its lead.
Maryland’s scoring lulls inhibited it from constantly organising its disruptive press — one which has tripped up nearly your entire convention this season.
Ohio State is within the basement of the Huge Ten regardless of excessive expectations getting into the season. The Buckeyes misplaced 9 straight video games earlier than upsetting Illinois Sunday.
A crew that has nearly nothing to play for within the ultimate week of the season performed prefer it had nothing to lose. Ohio State shot the ball at a excessive clip and terminated any Maryland first-half run with a bucket of its personal.
Whereas Maryland’s offense settled in with Jahmir Younger, Donta Scott and Julian Reese carrying the scoring, the Terps’ protection struggled to get stops. At halftime, Ohio State led 35-29.
When these groups met again on Jan. 8 in Faculty Park, Ohio State led by 5 on the break. However behind its dwelling crowd, Maryland ripped off a 14-0 run to ultimately defeat a ranked Buckeye group.
Whereas Maryland has been praised for its halftime changes this season and the way it has competed within the second half, it began the second half as uneasy because it did the primary.
Maryland made simply considered one of its first 5 makes an attempt within the second half and trailed by 13 with over quarter-hour to go.
“A few of these guys, they simply have not realized, at instances, it’s like, in case you don’t have the recent hand, in that scenario let’s drive to the basket, we’re within the double bonus, let’s attempt to get to the free throw line,” Willard stated of Maryland’s offensive struggles.
Regardless of the house crew having all of the momentum, Maryland by no means stop. The Terps slowly chipped away, placing collectively stops and scores to chop its deficit to 9 with eight and a half minutes to go.
Scott was whistled for his fourth foul with over eight minutes to play, forcing him to sit on the bench for over three minutes. Ohio State handled foul bother all through the evening, too. Buckeye guard Isaac Likekele fouled out with six minutes to go.
Maryland made a late push to chop Ohio State’s deficit to eight, however the Buckeyes exploded on a 7-0 run, which led to Willard utilizing his final timeout with three and a half minutes to play. Maryland by no means recovered in a disappointing loss.
Julian Reese, who’s turn out to be a double-double machine with 4 straight, completed with 17 factors and 12 boards and was one of many few vivid spots in an in any other case poor efficiency. Don Carey was the one different Terp in double figures with 14 factors, his second straight sport with double-digit factors.
Three issues to know
1. Maryland can’t work out how one can win on the highway. Whether or not it’s the journey, the powerful highway atmospheres or the dearth of routine in a distinct enviornment and state, Maryland isn’t a superb basketball crew on the highway. Most groups, if not all, are higher at dwelling than on the highway. However how good the Terps are at dwelling — 10-0 in convention play — in comparison with how dangerous they’re on the highway — 1-8 in convention — is jarring.
“Crowds have affected us,” Willard stated. “When groups are occurring runs, we’re speeding on offense.”
2. Ian Martinez has been a constant cog for the Terps. Ian Martinez had eight straight factors for Maryland to assist the Terps chip away at their deficit within the second half. He completed with eight factors in 22 minutes. Martinez’s offensive manufacturing wasn’t an anomaly. He’s been constant for Maryland all season and somebody Willard depends on to supply off the bench. In a match setting, Maryland will want its bench to supply, particularly Martinez.
3. Sunday’s season finale is a must-win. The No. 2 seed and the No. 8 seed within the Huge Ten are separated by only a couple video games. With the loss, Maryland moved out of second place within the Huge Ten. If Maryland loses one other highway sport in its season finale at Penn State on Sunday, it may drop all the way in which all the way down to eighth place within the standings, relying on how the remainder of the convention gala’s in its ultimate video games. Simply 24 hours in the past, there was critical dialogue of Maryland turning into the No. 2 seed within the convention. There’s nonetheless an opportunity Maryland can earn a top-four seed and double-bye within the match, but it surely should beat Penn State this weekend.
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Maryland issues a new suicide prevention action plan for schools, families – WTOP News
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Suicide is the third leading cause of death for young people between the ages of 10 and 24 in Maryland. That’s according to a new suicide prevention action plan produced through the state’s Department of Health.
Suicide is the third leading cause of death for young people between the ages of 10 and 24 in Maryland. That’s according to a new suicide prevention action plan produced through the state’s Department of Health.
Scott Poland, the director of the Office of Suicide and Violence Prevention at Nova Southeastern University College of Psychology, talked to WTOP about the action plan he authored with his wife, Donna, who is a career educator.
The “Maryland Action Plan to Prevent Suicide in K-12 Schools” serves as a reference guide to school administrators and the community, and was developed in cooperation with the state health department’s Office of Suicide Prevention.
Poland said one thing that surprises people is that children as young as 8 years old may consider taking their own lives.
“I hear from school personnel all around the country (asking if they) have to take it seriously (if a fourth or fifth grader is talking about suicide). And the answer is absolutely yes,” Poland said.
Among the data points in the action plan is a survey of students in the “Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance Survey of 2021/2022.” According to that survey, 21% of high school students “seriously considered suicide” in the past year, and 27% of middle schoolers considered suicide at some point in their lives.
Poland said it’s important to talk about suicide with young people, and that the idea that talking about it might encourage a young person to consider suicide is a “myth.”
“When we actually bring it up, it gives someone a chance to unburden themselves, to realize that they’re not alone, that there are alternatives and that there is help available,” Poland said.
But he said young people are most susceptible to imitating suicidal behavior: “It is important that we not glorify the suicide victim.”
Instead, Poland said, the emphasis after a suicide should be on healing those affected and helping them find appropriate ways to deal with their emotions and mental health.
The plan released this week includes providing intervention action plans for a young person who may be considering suicide.
“Part of that, of course, is removing lethal means and developing a written safety plan with them,” he said.
Poland said that can include helping people understand “the importance of calling 988, doing things that can calm themselves down,” and reaching out to the nearest trusted adult.
People can reach the national resource for crisis response services and suicide prevention by dialing 988.
Poland said social media is “wreaking havoc” on children’s emotional well-being, often making them feel “not smart enough, not rich enough, not good enough.” Poland said he’s currently working with the state of South Dakota on developing tools to help “young people be a little more mindful and make better decisions about their screen time.”
Poland said parents can help — when it comes to the hours and hours that many people spend online — by modeling healthy amounts of screen time themselves. And he said adults need to think about how they introduce technology to their kids.
“We’re in too (much of) a hurry to give kids smartphones and 24-hour internet access,” Poland said.
“I really have to compliment Maryland,” Poland said, on coming up with the new plan.
Poland said Maryland does not have an especially high rate of suicide, but “I think we all recognize that losing one young person to suicide is one too many.”
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Getting to know Michigan State football’s Week 2 opponent: Maryland
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Game two is coming up for Michigan State football as the Spartans hit the road for an early season Big Ten matchup against Maryland. The Terps have had MSU’s number in recent years, but the Spartans’ new-look team is ready to change that narrative this weekend.
Jonathan Smith and his staff have a lot to work on this week after a lackluster 16-10 win over Florida Atlantic, but we’ve become more than used to slow starts for MSU in their first game so it’s not time to panic just yet.
While the team wraps up their preparations for Maryland, let’s take a quick look at the Terps and see what we can learn about them before the big game on Saturday.
Maryland is off and running in their 2024 campaign and had an absolutely dominant week one performance. The Terps took on UConn at home and came away with an impressive 50-7 win. Sure UConn is an awful football program, but we saw how poorly Michigan State just did against a similar opponent.
Not only was the final score lopsided, but ever major statistical category was as well. Maryland doubled UConn in first downs and rushing yards, threw for nearly 400 passing yards and even won the turnover battle 3-0. The Terps also only had five penalties for 45 yards which is significantly better than MSU’s 12 for 140 yards against FAU.
Sure all of this took place against UConn, but it appears that Maryland is in a very good spot heading into this big week two matchup.
One thing that I thought would be a positive for Michigan State in this game is that Maryland is breaking in a new quarterback as well. The Terps’ quarterback, Billy Edwards Jr., went off against UConn and completed 20-of-27 passes for 311 yards and two touchdowns. He also is a capable runner and added 39 yards on the ground, so Michigan State will have its hands full on Saturday slowing him down.
The Terps don’t have one standout running back in the backfield, so that does benefit MSU. They do however have two solid backs in Roman Hemby and Nolan Ray who both ran for over 60 yards and one score each.
The one player however that Michigan State needs to pay the most attention to is wide receiver Tai Felton. He had one of the best Week 1 performances in the country as he recorded seven receptions for 178 yards and two touchdowns. Thankfully MSU’s defense and secondary looked much improved against FAU, so hopefully that carries over into this weekend’s matchup.
The opportunity in front of MSU on Saturday is massive. The Spartans are big underdogs in this matchup which they probably deserve, but a win would do wonders not just for the overall perception of the team but for their confidence moving forward.
I’ve got a strange feeling that we’re going to be very happy around 7 p.m. ET Saturday night.
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Maryland makes filing taxes online free for some
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More than 700,000 Marylanders should be able to file their state and federal income tax returns online for free next year, saving residents hours of work and hundreds of dollars on tax software and prep services.
Maryland joined dozens of states Wednesday in a voluntary federal program called Direct File after a test run received positive reviews and showed possible cost savings. Filing paper returns by mail will still be an option.
“It’s unacceptable that Marylanders should have to pay any portion whatsoever of their refund or paycheck to fulfill a mandatory requirement like filing tax returns,” Maryland Comptroller Brooke Lierman said at a news conference in Annapolis.
The first-term Democrat called the program a game changer for Maryland taxpayers that will modernize her agency. It targets low-to-moderate earners with relatively simple tax returns, and is expected to expand over time.
Lierman’s office will partner with the nonprofit Code for America to integrate the Maryland tax filing system into Direct File. Eligibility requirements will be announced in January, the comptroller’s office said.
Gov. Wes Moore, State Treasurer Dereck E. Davis, members of Maryland’s congressional delegation, U.S. Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Wally Adeyemo and nonprofit partners joined Lierman for the announcement.
Funds from the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 helped build and test the system. The IRS and Treasury Department then invited states to participate.
The IRS has been considering a free e-filing option for low-income American taxpayers for decades, according to the Congressional Research Service. When tax prep companies pushed back, the federal government agreed not to compete with them if they provided free help and e-filing to low-earning taxpayers.
However, many qualified taxpayers were pushed toward paid services, according to an investigation by nonprofit news outlet ProPublica.
The IRS piloted Direct File in 12 states this year. Filers used a laptop, tablet, cellphone or other device to submit income returns and request certain tax credits offered to low-earning individuals and families.
In a survey, nine out of 10 Direct File users ranked their experience as “Excellent” or “Above Average.”
U.S. Rep Steny Hoyer, a Democrat representing Maryland’s 5th District, called paying taxes the “price of our democracy.”
“We ought to make it as easy as possible for people to comply with a legal obligation that they have to support their country, their state and their communities,” he said. “And this system of Direct File does that.”
Robin McKinney, CEO and co-founder of CASH Campaign of Maryland, said easy, free online filing makes the government work more efficiently for citizens and should deliver refunds and credits to taxpayers faster.
McKinney’s nonprofit promotes economic advancement for low- to moderate-income Marylanders and provides free tax help, among other services.
Economic Security Project, a nonprofit that advocates for guaranteed income and economic equity for working families, found that adopting Direct File could mean $355 million in costs and time saved for Maryland’s low- to moderate-earners.
Maryland recently has expanded tax credits for working families, but about $152 million goes unclaimed each year, according to the Security Project’s analysis.
They also estimated that about $148 million could be saved in filing fees and $56 million could be saved in time spent filing taxes.
That money could have gone into Marylanders’ pockets, CASH Campaign’s McKinney said, and it could have gone back into the state’s economy.
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