COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- Moments after raising the banner for their second consecutive Big Ten championship, the No. 6 Maryland Terrapins flexed their muscles as the favorites for another title.Freshman Destiny Slocum scored 15 points, Shatori Walker-Kimbrough had 14 points and Maryland breezed by UMass-Lowell 100-44 in its opener Sunday.The Terrapins entered the season with the nations top recruiting class, a group that shined in its debut. Freshman Kaila Charles started alongside Slocum and finished with 11 points and 10 rebounds in 21 minutes.We talked about in pregame what kind of work had to go into unveiling that banner, Maryland coach Brenda Frese said. I know in our locker room we have even bigger goals of how we want to finish this season.Brianna Fraser had 14 points and Ieshia Small scored 12 for Maryland, which outrebounded UMass-Lowell 52-30. The Terrapins scored 48 points off 34 UMass-Lowell turnovers.Maryland, which finished 31-4 last season, was in sync from the opening tip and started the game on a 17-3 run. Walker-Kimbrough led the way with six points over that stretch.We wanted to come out and set the tone early, Walker-Kimbrough said. One of goals today was just to play Maryland basketball: defend, rebound and run. I thought we did a good job early speeding them up, but we have to make sure we sustain that for 40 minutes.The Terrapins remained dominant at both ends of the court and continued to pull away from the outmatched River Hawks. The Terps had 11 steals over an 11-minute span in the first half.Maryland was 23 of 38 (60.5 percent) from the field and led 57-16 at the break. The Terrapins were just as dominant in the second half, and a jumper by Small increased the margin to 89-32 with 7:45 left in the game.Its a good test, River Hawks coach Jenerrie Harris said about playing Maryland. Its nice to be able to go against one of the best teams in the country. Maybe where we cant make each other pay in practice, that can make us pay in a situation like this so that we can make the improvement for later in the season.Nicole Hayner led UMass-Lowell (0-2) with 17 points.BIG PICTUREUMass-Lowell: The River Hawks are looking to improve from last season, when they went 4-24 overall and 1-15 in the America East. UMass-Lowell is expected to get a boost from freshmen Megan Hendrick and Tyshay Britten, both of whom are pushing for spots in the starting lineup.Maryland: The Terrapins are poised for another big season, with one of the best front courts in the nation and a deep bench. Maryland is expected to contend for a second national championship under Frese.DEEP BENCHMaryland has talent up and down its roster and got points from 12 players in the opener. The Terrapins bench outscored UMass-Lowell 50-15. No player on Maryland played more than 25 minutes. We have a lot more speed this year and depth, Frese said. We definitely want to be able to change up and give a lot of different looks on the defensive end.BETTER PROTECTIONAfter committing 34 turnovers in the first half, UMass-Lowell did a much better job protecting the ball after the break. The River Hawks turned the ball over just four times in the third quarter.UP NEXTUMass-Lowell: The River Hawks open at home against Fairfield on Thursday.Maryland: The Terrapins play their second of three consecutive home games against Maryland-Eastern Shore on Wednesday. Adidas Ultra Boost Wholesale . Parker had 26 points and eight assists and San Antonio beat Toronto 112-99 Monday night. "We won that game because of Tony Parkers aggressiveness," Spurs coach Gregg Popovich said. "His juice; his aggression all night long. Adidas Ultra Boost Discount . 31, the CFL club announced Monday. 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The Big 12 is staying at 10 schools.After three months of analyzing, vetting and interviewing possible new members, Big 12 leaders on Monday took expansion off their agenda.This was not a decision to not expand, Commissioner Bob Bowlsby said. This was an endorsement and reinvestment in the 10 that we had.Oklahoma President David Boren said the decision was unanimous and no specific schools were discussed or voted on during five hours or so of expansion talk while Big 12 presidents and chancellors met Sunday night and Monday.Boren, the chairman of the Big 12 board of directors and the only president who has been in the league since its inception in 1996, insisted he has never seen such a unified sense of purpose on the board.Texas President Greg Fenves said 10 is the right number for the league.It promotes a competitive balance and allows for a round-robin schedule in the different sports, which is best for our student-athletes, Fenves said. This is the right way to ensure a strong conference moving forward.Conference officials held interviews in September with Air Force and Colorado State from the Mountain West; Central Florida, Cincinnati, Connecticut, Houston, South Florida, SMU and Tulane from the American Athletic Conference; Rice from Conference USA; and BYU, which is a football independent with its other sports in the West Coast Conference.Moving into a Power Five conference for those schools would mean tens of millions of dollars more revenue per year, along with greater exposure and prestige.Houston athletic director Hunter Yurachek said the Big 12s decision is not just about the University of Houston and the Big 12 Conference, its about the evolving landscape of collegiate athletics. It does not, and will not, deter our mission of building champions for life.UConn President Susan Herbst said going through the process was a positive experience and it gave her a better understanding of where UConn stands and what it has to offer.Most of the schools they were talking to were in our conference, she said. I think that shows, without question, that our conference plays at their level and are athletically and academically appropriate to be a Power Five.Boren once called the Big 12 psychologically disadvantaged as the smallest Power Five league and the only one without a football championship game.The circumstances have radically changed, Boren explained Monday when asked about the comment he first made in June 2015.Boren said his interest in expansion was tied to his desire for the Big 12 tto start a television network like the ones the Big Ten, Southeastern Conference and Pac-12 have and the one the Atlantic Coast Conference is on target to start with ESPN in 2019.dddddddddddd Once it was determined that the market was not there for a network, his interest in expansion cooled.And the Big 12 announced earlier this year it was bringing back its football championship game in 2017, no matter its composition.Knowing now there will be 10 teams, Big 12 athletic directors can move forward with the process of determining if the league will split into divisions and how to determine which teams will play in the championship game.Oklahoma athletic director Joe Castiglione, part of a subcommittee addressing those issues, said that decision could be made by November. As for the site of the title game, he said the league got bids from four potential hosts.While never committing to expansion, the Big 12 has been tossing around the idea for almost two years as it tries to find ways to increase revenue and improve the conferences chances to make the College Football Playoff. The Big 12 was left out of the first playoff in 2014, but conference champion Oklahoma made it last season.Boren and Bowlsby both said that expansion could be re-addressed in the future, but said it no longer is an active agenda item.In June, the conference announced record payouts to members of $30 million each, and expansion talk seemed to fade.A month later, at their last board meeting, school presidents were briefed by consultants who explained how the conference could bolster its playoff chances by adding schools and boost revenue.Two new members would have meant an extra $50 million in TV revenue per year for the Big 12 on contracts with ESPN and Fox that run through 2025.The networks have not been keen on the idea of paying the Big 12 to add schools. When asked if the league would be getting more money from ESPN and FOX for not expanding, Bowlsby wouldnt get into specifics about negotiations.We have a new piece of inventory with our championship game, so were in the process of discussions with both FOX and ESPN on that, Bowlsby said. There are components of the contract that we also talk about in the context of those changes, and were going to continue to talk about those.---AP College Football Writer Ralph D. Russo in New York and AP Sports Writer Jim Vertuno in Austin, Texas, contributed to this report.---Online:APs college football website: www.collegefootball.ap.org Cheap Jerseys Store Cheap Jerseys Store Cheap NFL Jerseys Wholesale Cheap Stitched Jerseys Cheap NFL Gear Wholesale NFL Womens Jerseys Cheap NFL Black Jerseys Cheap NFL Autographed Jerseys Wholesale Stitched Jerseys Wholesale Nike NFL Jerseys NFL Jerseys Outlet Youth NFL Jerseys Cheap Cheap Jerseys Throwback Wholesale NFL Autographed Jerseys Wholesale Jerseys ' ' '