Nick Faust scored 12 points, Alex Len had 11, and host Maryland plodded past Morehead State 67-45 Monday night.
The Terrapins (1-1) seemed to lack the same intensity they showed in a narrow season-opening loss to defending NCAA champion Kentucky. But Maryland still had enough talent, height and depth to beat the cold-shooting Eagles (1-1).
The Terrapins finished with a 40-32 rebounding advantage and outscored Morehead State 17-6 at the foul line.
Milton Chavis scored 10 for Morehead State. The Eagles, of the Ohio Valley Conference, shot 32 percent from the floor, went 1-for-14 from beyond the arc and led only once — at 3-2.
Nation men
No. 1 Indiana 87, North Dakota State 61: Cody Zeller scored 22 points and Remy Abell added a career-high 14 to lead host Indiana (2-0) past foul-prone North Dakota State (1-1).
Early in the second half, after the Bison closed to 48-38, Zeller and Abell combined for 15 points in a 23-13 run that turned the game into a rout.
North Dakota State was led by Marshall Bjorklund with 16 points.
No. 17 Memphis 81, North Florida 66: Tarik Black had 18 points and seven rebounds to lead host Memphis (1-0) to a victory over North Florida (1-1).
Jerron Granberry led the Ospreys with 17 points, including 13 in the second half.
No. 20 Notre Dame 84, Monmouth 57: Garrick Sherman had 22 points and seven rebounds to lead host Notre Dame (2-0) over Monmouth (1-1), which scored the game's first four points and trailed by 12 at the half.
Notre Dame outrebounded Monmouth 42-24 but shot only 61 percent from the free-throw line.
Dion Nesmith led the Hawks with 13 points.
SEC men
Youngstown State 68, Georgia 56: Kendrick Perry scored 23 points to lead Youngstown State (2-0) to a victory at Georgia (1-1) in the first round of the Legends Classic. Youngstown State led throughout, sprinting to an 8-0 lead and putting the game away with an 11-0 run that gave the Penguins a 51-33 lead with 7:48 remaining.
Kentavious Caldwell-Pope hit five three-pointers and scored a career-high 27 points for Georgia despite playing most of the second half with three fouls. The Bulldogs shot 12.5 percent from the field (3-for-24) in the first half.
Texas A&M 83, Troy 65: Senior guard Elston Turner scored a game-high 26 points as host Texas A&M (2-0) defeated Troy (1-1). A&M was 18-for-20 from the free-throw line and had 21 assists
Hunter Williams led Troy with 15 points.
UConn moves into Top 25
UConn (1-0), which lost a Hall of Fame coach and five underclassmen after last season, moved into the Top 25 on Monday at No. 23, on the strength of its 66-62 win over Michigan State.
The men's team hadn't been ranked since Jan. 23 and didn't receive a single vote in the pre-season poll.
The Huskies are academically ineligible for the 2013 post-season, but an NCAA ban does not disqualify a team from the AP poll.
Led by No. 1 Indiana (1-0) and No. 2 Louisville (1-0), the first seven teams in the initial regular-season poll were the same as the preseason Top 25. Kentucky (1-0), which received one first-place vote, was third. UK's next opponent, Duke, is No. 9.
