Coming off its biggest win of the season against the previously No. 7 ranked Duke Blue Devils, the Pack hopes to carry the momentum it built Wednesday night over to Saturday’s game against the Maryland Terrapins.

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‘This is a good win for us, but tomorrow it is over,’ coach Sidney Lowe said after the game. ‘We’ll enjoy it tonight, but after that we have to get ready for another tough game and bounce back.’

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The Pack (13-6, 2-3 in ACC) is in one of its toughest stretches of its schedule as it travels to Maryland to take on a dangerous Terrapins team that is averaging 81.1 points per game, almost 10 more than State.

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The Terps have dominated the series between the Pack in the past few years and have won the last five games, including knocking State out of the ACC tournament in the first round. The Pack will need another big game by leading scorer Tracy Smith, who led the Pack with 23 points against Duke, as he will need to help keep the Pack in the game both offensively and rebounding the ball on defense.

To get the tough win on the road, the Pack will have to focus on stopping Maryland’s star player, senior guard Greevis Vasquez. Vasquez is fourth in the ACC in scoring, averaging 17.9 points per game and he has scored over 20 points in seven of his last eight games. Vasquez is also a very unselfish player, as he is averaging 6.1 assists per game ‘-

second most in the ACC.

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Even with the upset win against the Blue Devils fresh on his teammates’ minds, Smith said the Pack still feels like it has something to prove.

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‘It was a big win for us,’ Smith said. ‘We are a team on the rise. We are really good, but we have to keep fighting and prove to people that we are a great basketball team.’

After a win over a top-ten ranked team, the Pack gained a great deal of confidence and discovered it can play with anyone in the ACC. But the players’ main focus is to carry over the intensity they showed in the Duke game and focus on not losing steam after such an emotional win.

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‘We can’t have a letdown,’ senior forward Dennis Horner said. ‘Going into Saturday, it is a big game for us and with this win we feel confidence and have a little swagger with our team, knowing we can play with anybody.’

Lowe said he hopes the team is able to learn how to duplicate the upset win over Duke.

‘You can learn from losing a ball game, but you can really learn from winning a ball game if you pay attention to the things you did to win the game and try to set out and do that every time,’ Lowe said. ‘We are trying to get to the point to where we understand what we did and how we have to play and know how to be able to duplicate that.’