Buzz Williams and Maryland men\u2019s basketball secured its second recruit from the Class of 2026 when four-star power forward Adama Tambedou committed to the program Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n
Tambedou, a 6-foot-7, 230-pound post player who is ranked No. 18 at his position and No. 122 overall by CBS Sports, announced his decision on CBS Sports.<\/a> He wore a white zip-up jacket, which he removed to reveal a black Terps T-shirt underneath.<\/p>\n Tambedou said he chose Maryland over Iowa State \u201cbecause when I went on a visit with the staff, we were talking a lot about basketball on the court, off the court, how are they going to help me get better on the court and off the court. \u2026 Coach Buzz, too, he was giving me some advice about life, what to do to be a great player and how he was going to help me to be a great person, too. And that was the main reason I chose Maryland.\u201d<\/p>\n Tambedou \u2014 a native of Senegal who grew up in Springfield, Massachusetts, before playing for Putnam Science Academy in Putnam, Connecticut \u2014 averaged 15.6 points, 10.9 rebounds and 2.5 blocks in Pro16, Puma\u2019s AAU league.<\/p>\n Tambedou had much to say about meeting Williams, who was hired in April<\/a> to replace Kevin Willard<\/a> after the latter jumped ship to lead Villanova.<\/p>\n \u201cHe likes the player who plays like me, the dude who plays hard, they\u2019re taking the rebound, they\u2019re blocking everything, they\u2019re running on the floor,\u201d Tambedou said. \u201cWhen he told me that, I was like, \u2018Yeah, when I come here, I may fit with the program,\u2019 because they\u2019ve got everything that I want. I want to get better, and they want a player who\u2019s working hard every time, someone who wants to get better, someone who\u2019s playing defense, and that\u2019s why I picked that school.\u201d<\/p>\n Tambedou joins three-star, 6-8 small forward Austin Brown, who committed to the Terps in June. Tambedou, who wore a large ring from his AAU team\u2019s run to the Pro16 national championship, promised to do the same for Maryland.<\/p>\n \u201cAll I have to say is, I\u2019m coming, and I\u2019m going to bring some wins, and I\u2019m going to get that ring with you all,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Have a news tip? Contact Edward Lee at eklee@baltsun.com<\/a>, 410-332-6200 and x.com\/EdwardLeeSun<\/a>.<\/p>\n Originally Published: September 23, 2025 at 5:31 PM EDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Buzz Williams and Maryland men\u2019s basketball secured its second recruit from the Class of 2026 when four-star power…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[402,4044,8640,398,400,401,2844,99,105437,13779],"class_list":["post-177238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-basketball","tag-basketball","tag-college-basketball","tag-maryland","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-basketball","tag-ncaabasketball","tag-recruiting","tag-sports","tag-terps","tag-university-of-maryland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}