Coach Randy Edsall released the Terps’ depth chart for Saturday’s game against Virginia today.

Some highlights of this week’s two-deep:

• For the third time this season and the second-straight week, the starting quarterback has not been released. C.J. Brown and Danny O’Brien are each listed as the starter
• Wide receiver Kevin Dorsey, who’s missed the past two games with an undisclosed injury, is listed as the Terps’ starting wide receiver opposite Quintin McCree. Kerry Boykins and Ronnie Tyler are listed as the two backups.
• Linebacker Demetrius Hartsfield, who hasn’t played since leaving Oct. 8’s game against Georgia Tech with an apparent leg injury, is listed as the starter at MIKE. He’s joined by Darin Drakeford (STAR) and Alex Twine (WILL). You’ve got to wonder if linebacker Lorne Goree, who’s been solid at the MIKE and is listed as Hartsfield’s backup, will work his way onto the field, perhaps in Twine’s spot.
• Wide receiver/punt returner Tony Logan doesn’t appear on the two-deep. He didn’t play last weekend against Boston College after being listed as questionable on the team’s injury report.

Check in here and in The Diamondback this week for more news and notes as the Terps look to right the ship in their final four games of the year.

Athletics Director Kevin Anderson sent a letter to fans today in which he admitted his disappointment with the Terrapins football team’s 2-6 season. Even so, Anderson asked fans to continue to support the team.

“I can tell you that no one associated with our football program is satisfied with our overall record this season. We have had our share of good moments as well as difficult ones, and it is during these difficult times that we need your support and attendance the most,” Anderson said in the letter. “For us to elevate this program to where we would all like it to be, we need to all be pulling on the rope in the same direction. As I often tell our staff, we are one band with one sound and you are an integral part of our band.”

Good moments? I guess all of them came on opening night, when the Terps beat Miami.

It’s not surprising that Anderson would bring up fan attendance, considering how empty Byrd Stadium was on Saturday as the Terps lost to Boston College.

Building off its success from last season, the Terrapins women’s basketball team will be ranked No. 11 in the AP preseason poll released Saturday.

The Terps, who were picked to finish third in the ACC this season,  are also the third-highest ranked team in the ACC, sitting behind No. 7 Miami and No. 8 Duke.

The team’s preseason slate will start Tuesday night, when the Terps Messiah in a season-opening exhibition. Their No. 11 ranking won’t be put to the test until Nov. 11, when the Terps Loyola in the first game of the regular season.

Josh Vitale is The Diamondback’s Terrapins women’s basketball beat writer. He can be reached at vitale@umdbk.com. Follow him on Twitter at @JoshVitale.

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The Terrapins men’s basketball team held an open practice followed by a scrimmage today. Freshman guard Nick Faust was the star of the game, scoring 15 points.

The press had access to coach Mark Turgeon after the game, along with a few players. Here are a few tidbits from the day:

-The team still hasn’t heard from the NCAA on Ukrainian center Alex Len’s eligibility. “We keep thinking it’s going to be that day, then we think it’s going to be the next day. So, we’re hoping for Monday. If we don’t here anything, we’ll hope for Tuesday,” Turgeon said. “The good thing is they’re being diligent and as long as they get the right answer in the end, that’s what matters. So, hopefully Monday.”

-Pe’Shon Howard was on hand for the scrimmage, wearing a walking boot and on crutches after breaking his foot. “Pe’Shon was a big blow. Pe’Shon was really practicing well, and playing well. He was our leader,” Turgeon said. “That put’s a lot on Terrell [Stoglin] now, Terrell’s not only the guy to run our team, he’s gotta score. And you gotta guy like Nick [Faust] who’s gotta be your backup point, put’s a lot on Nick’s shoulders.”

Turgeon once again didn’t close the door on Howard being redshirted if the injury doesn’t heal quick enough. Howard had an MRI, and the team will get the results today. There is a chance that surgery is necessary.

“I was more sad than him,,” Stoglin said. “I mean, he’s real tough. He’s taking it, he’s not pouting over it, nothing like that.”

“I don’t know,” Howard said. “I just took it kind of [as] part of life.”

Howard felt a pain in his foot about a week and a half ago, but he thought it was just a bruise at that point. But he started to struggle walking around campus, prompting the x-rays that revealed the break.

“The first thing the doctor says is, ‘I see a crack.’ I’m thinking well, a crack, maybe that’s little. So I’m still laughing, thinking it’s a joke,” Howard said. “He said it could be a while. I said, ‘A while? I said, how long is a while?’ He said, ‘A real long while.’”

-Turgeon was singing Faust’s praises, and said that he will probably be a starter out of the gate. “Oh yeah,” Turgeon said. “Most likely. If he doesn’t screw around the next few days in practice.” That last part was said jokingly — Turgeon said several times that Faust has a chance to be a special player. He wouldn’t have been playing any point this year if not for the Howard injury, according to Turgeon, but now backs up Stoglin.

-Sean Mosley might see some time at point guard this year, Turgeon said, with Howard going down.

-Stoglin’s role in the offense will increase even more now. Turgeon joked that Stoglin wants to play 40 minutes a game, and that he’ll need him to be selfish at times this year to score. “I gotta revamp the offense,” Turgeon said. “I had a lot of the offense set up for Terrell at the two, and now over the next two weeks we gotta put him in positions to score at the point.”

“It’s going to make it more difficult,” Turgeon said. “But I put in the work personally this summer so I feel like I’m capable of running the point guard and still getting points for the team.

“I’m up for it. I’m up for the challenge. I love challenges. I wish I had more minutes last year. So I’m going to take advantage of it this year.”

-Who are the starters at this point? “I don’t know,” Turgeon said. “I mean, there’s only seven of them to chose from… I know Terrell’s going to start at point. I know Sean’s going to start because Sean does everything I ask.”

Jeremy Schneider is The Diamondback’s Terrapins men’s basketball beat reporter. He can be contacted at schneider@umdbk.com. Follow him on Twitter at www.twitter.com/jschneider_.

Greetings from Byrd Stadium, where we’re about half an hour away from kickoff between the Terps and Boston College.

The weather will probably be the biggest story of the day, as the rain that pummeled College Park all morning has turned over to snow here at Byrd in some kind of freaky October sign of the apocalypse.

The field’s a mess already (not that it’s not a mess in the best weather conditions, but still). No word on the starting QB yet, but the weather might help coach Randy Edsall make a decision. It’d be a lot easier to keep the ball on the ground today than air it out.

The Terps’ D will get some help from the return of middle linebacker Demetrius Hartsfield, who’s missed the past two and a half games with an apparent leg injury. It’ll be interesting how he’s used, though. The team’s best three (healthy) linebackers at this point, in my opinion, are Hartsfield, MLB Lorne Goree and WLB Darin Drakeford, but I don’t know if any of them have the speed to play the star, where Mario Rowson remains listed as the starter in Kenny Tate’s absence.

That’s about it, folks. Not a whole lot needs to be said about the importance of this game for the Terps as they hope to turn a 2-5 start into a bowl appearance.

I’ll check back in after the game. In the meantime, follow me and columnist Jeremy Schneider for updates during the game.