The 10th anniversary of Maryland’s NCAA Championship: Where are they now?

Ten years after the Maryland men’s basketball team won the NCAA Championship, Barry Svrluga finds out what each player on that team has been up to.

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Gary Williams, Coach

Williams retired following the 2010-11 season with more wins than any coach in the history of his alma mater. He went 424-242 at Maryland, took the program to the only two Final Fours in school history and won its only ACC tournament (2004) and national titles (2002). He took the Terrapins to 14 NCAA tournaments, including 11 straight from 1994 to 2004. Now lives in Bethesda.

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C Lonny Baxter, Sr.

KEY MOMENT: In a taut game in the East Region final against Connecticut, Baxter – a sometimes shaky foul shooter – repeatedly got the ball on the block, repeatedly got fouled, and made 15 of 18 from the line. He finished with a season-high 29 points and nine rebounds.

SINCE THE TITLE: Drafted in the second round of the 2002 draft by Chicago, Baxter played four NBA seasons with six teams. The Silver Spring native has since bounced around in Europe, playing in Greece, Italy, Spain and Turkey. Baxter now plays for the Russian club BC Enisey, which is based in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia.

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G Steve Blake, Jr.

KEY MOMENT: Blake was the Terrapins’ pass-first point guard known best for his ability to get others the ball. But in the waning moments of the East Regional final against Connecticut, with Maryland holding a two-point lead, Blake's three-pointer clinched the Terps’ second straight trip to the Final Four.

SINCE THE TITLE: Blake is in the ninth year of an NBA career in which he has spent time with four teams, including his first two with the Wizards. Now with the Lakers, he has a career assist-to-turnover ratio of 2.8-to-1. He is married to a former Maryland cheerleader, and has three sons – ages 5, 3 and 1.

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G Juan Dixon, Sr.

KEY MOMENT: The ACC’s player of the year and the Terps’ all-time leading scorer, Dixon had one of the best careers in Maryland history. When the Terrapins fell behind 13-2 in the national semifinals against Kansas, he steadied his team, scoring 10 of Maryland’s first 15 points. Dixon matched his career high with 33 points that night.

SINCE THE TITLE: The Wizards’ first-round pick in the 2002 draft, Dixon spent seven seasons in the NBA with four teams. He last appeared in the league in 2009, with Washington. He went on to play in Greece and Spain, but was suspended for testing positive for an anabolic steroid – a test result he said was a mistake. Last year, he returned to play for a team in Turkey. He and his wife have two children.

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F Tahj Holden, Jr.

KEY MOMENT: After being replaced by Chris Wilcox as a starter six games into the season, Holden became an important reserve. In the national semifinal against Kansas, Baxter picked up two early fouls, and Williams turned to Holden. He responded with a 13-point, five-rebound performance against a Kansas front court that included Drew Gooden and Nick Collison.

SINCE THE TITLE: Holden played a year in Turkey, was a high school assistant in San Diego, then served as an assistant at Monmouth University. He now works at a financial firm in his native New Jersey and coaches a fourth-grade AAU team.

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F Byron Mouton, Sr.

KEY MOMENT: Mouton had two primary roles: defend and agitate. He always drew the opponent’s top scorer, and in the regional semifinals against Kentucky, that meant lanky Wildcats swingman Tayshawn Prince. Prince had scored 41 points in his previous game, but Mouton harassed him into a 6-for-17 shooting performance, an important part of the Terrapins’ 78-68 win.

SINCE THE TITLE: Mouton played seven years professionally – five in Europe, one in the NBDL and one in China. He now lives in Bowie and runs 6th Man Sports, an AAU-affiliated organization that helps train young basketball players.

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G Drew Nicholas. Jr.

KEY MOMENT: Nicholas was a backup at both guard spots and small forward. With the region semifinal against Kentucky tied midway through the second half, Nicholas nailed a three-pointer, the first of six straight baskets for the Terps, who never trailed again.

SINCE THE TITLE: Nicholas quietly became one of the most successful Terrapins as a pro. His nine-year European career includes stops in Italy, Turkey and Greece, where won two Euroleague championships in a row with Panathinaikos. He spent this season with a team owned by Giorgio Armani in Milan, Italy, but left before the season ended and returned to his home in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.

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F Chris Wilcox, Soph.

KEY MOMENT: In the national semifinals against Kansas, Wilcox showed the kind of athlete he was by blocking the first three shot attempts for Kansas star Drew Gooden. He went on to score 18 points and grab nine rebounds.

SINCE THE TITLE: Wilcox was the eighth pick in the 2002 draft, by the Clippers. His 10-year NBA career has been with five teams. His 2011-12 season with the Boston Celtics ended earlier this month when he underwent surgery to repair an enlarged valve in his heart. Wilcox is expected to be ready for training camp in the fall.

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G Earl Badu, Sr.

A walk-on from Baltimore, Badu played in 18 games in his Terrapin career, scoring four points. He lives in Bethesda.

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G Andre Collins, Fr.

Collins appeared in 22 games as a freshman, averaging 2.2 points. He scored the last basket at Cole Field House, a three-pointer at the buzzer against Virginia in 2002. Collins transferred to Loyola (Md.) midway through his junior year, where he averaged 26.1 points per game as a senior.

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G Mike Grinnon, Fr.

Grinnon played in 16 games as a freshman, but only two minutes in the NCAA tournament. Two years later he became the only Maryland player ever to win both an NCAA and ACC tournament title. After graduation, the Huntington, N.Y., native remained in the area and went into financial advising. He lives in McLean.

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G Calvin McCall, Jr.

A quarterback on Maryland's football team, McCall played in 19 games on the championship team and was a force in practice. "He didn’t take anything from anybody," Williams said. He later returned to his home town of Orlando and served as a coach on the staff of his high school's basketball team.

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F Ryan Randle, Jr.

An important front-court reserve on the title team, Randle was the Terps’ starting center in the 2002-03 season, and has had an itinerant career since, playing in Switzerland, Mexcio, France and Cyprus, as well as domestically in the United Basketball League and the NBDL.

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