The Marquette Golden Eagles have had two different head coaches since Buzz Williams coached the team from 2008-2014 after he was elevated from assistant coach to replace Tom Crean. Steve Wojciechowski coached Marquette from 2014-2021 and Shaka Smart is the current head coach for the Golden Eagles.
When Williams left after the 2014 season, he coached the Virginia Tech Hokies and also the Texas A&M Aggies. Williams has been a winner with every college basketball program he has coached. On Tuesday, the former Marquette head coach decided to leave Texas A&M and go be the new head coach of the Maryland Terrapins basketball program. This comes after Kevin Willard left Maryland’s program to be the new head coach for the Villanova Wildcats.
Marquette Golden Eagles Will Face Buzz Williams and the Maryland Terrapins In 2025-2026
Marquette faced Maryland on the road during the 2024-2025 season in College Park, Maryland. In 2025-2026, the Terrapins will face the Golden Eagles on the road as part of the home-and-home series. Ben Steele of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel mentioned that Williams has never faced his former team since leaving Milwaukee after the 2013-2014 college basketball season.
“MU and Maryland agreed to a home-and-home series last May.
The Golden Eagles won in College Park on Nov. 15. Willard then led the Terrapins to the Sweet 16, but took the job at Villanova with Maryland searching for an athletic director.
The date for next season’s game at Fiserv Forum hasn’t been announced yet.
Williams has never faced MU since leaving the school, but Golden Eagles head coach Shaka Smart faced Williams at Texas A&M several times when Smart was at Texas.”
It will be interesting to see when the Golden Eagles and the Terrapins will face each other next season. What kind of ovation is Williams going to get when he returns to a place he coached at? Maryland and Marquette are teams who will need to figure out what the rosters are going to look like for the 2025-2026 college basketball season.
In six seasons with Marquette, he won over 20 games for the first five seasons, but he finished with a 17-15 record in his final season with the program. Williams has a career .621 winning percentage at the college level and some Terrapins fans think that they upgraded at head coach also.
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