Two hours before game time Thursday, Juan Dixon was one of the first Maryland players out taking jump shots. You had to pay close attention to see him miss a shot, because it might have only happened two or three times during the entire session.

That low-key display was a precursor of things to come for Dixon. The senior finished with 19 points on eight-of-15 shooting and 3-of-4 from beyond the three-point line, 9 assists and four steals as five Terps scored in double figures during a 103-75 rout of visiting William & Mary before a sellout crowd of 14,500 at Cole Field House.

“I’m definitely going to go a lot harder in warm-ups,” Dixon said after the game. “That’s something I’m going to do from now on.”

The win extends the nation’s longest non-conference home winning streak to 83 games, and helps the Terps (9-2) get past an underwhelming effort in their previous appearance, a 72-56 loss at Oklahoma in their first game after exams.

“We haven’t played that many games defensively and it’s good to get back out there after the Oklahoma game,” Williams said. “It took us a while to get back to really get moving, but once we did, I thought we were pretty quick out there.”

The Terps answered the challenge William & Mary (3-6) provided inside. Lonny Baxter notched the 27th double-double of his career and fourth this season with 12 points and 10 rebounds. Byron Mouton also scored 19 points for the Terps, which set a team record with 13 three-point field goals.

“There’s no plan there, it was just who’s open,” Maryland Coach Gary Williams said. “They see Juan Dixon and they see Lonny Baxter and teams key on those two guys. If Byron’s that third option, then he’s there and open sometimes because his man might be helping.”

Steve Blake struggled early offensively, before making two three-pointers in the final two and a half minutes of the first half. He finished with eight points and nine assists in 31 minutes. It was the seventh straight game he had six or more assists.

“Steve was in a little bit of a slump probably, you go through that in a season,” Williams said. “His main job is to get in the offense and play defense. That quietly went unnoticed against (Hollis) Price out at Oklahoma (holding him to six points on 3-of-10 shooting and 0-for-6 on three-point attempts). Steve did a great defensive job there, but we didn’t play well so nobody really talked about it. He’s been playing great defense for us all year.”

Andre Collins looked a bit more at home during the seven minutes he played, and grabbed one rebound, handed out two assists to just one turnover, and had one steal.

The highly touted freshman admitted it’s been frustrating not playing as much as he would like, but is at least saying the right things about his situation.

“I’ll keep waiting, and working hard, and my turn will come,” Collins said. “Of course, someone coming out of high school who played a lot of minutes … you’re going to be frustrated if you want to play. At the same time, everybody’s been through it and I have to go through it too.”

Williams said after the game he was pleased with Collins’ performance.

“There will be spots where we need him in the second half of the year,” Williams said. “He’s been playing better in practice for about 10 days now. He’s stepped it up a little bit. He looked a little quicker in the game situation. He’s been that quick in practice, now tonight he was able to take that onto the court in a game and it was good to see.”

The game was Maryland’s last tune-up before facing N.C. State in Raleigh on Sunday. While the young Wolfpack will surely provide a bigger challenge than did the Tribe, Williams is happy to be back to a normal schedule after a very inconsistent playing schedule over the past two months.

“Everybody’s in the same situation,” Williams said. “Once Christmas hits, you get back into a regular game schedule. There’s been exams for everybody, there’s been Christmas tournaments where you play two games in two nights and then you don’t play for a week. I think everybody’s glad to get back into that conference schedule, where basically you play two games a week now. It all starts Sunday for us down at N.C. State and we’re looking forward to it.”

NOTES: Mike Mardesich, a senior co-captain last season, was in the crowd. He is visiting from Germany, where he plays for Telekom Bonn.

“It’s crazy to see the guys playing without me out there,” Mardesich said. “Especially seeing somebody else (Ryan Randle) wearing my number (33). It’s blowing my mind right now.”

… It’s one thing for a player to score off a screen, but off the can? That appears to be what happened to Calvin McCall. McCall was about to retake his seat on the bench after leaving briefly in the second half to use the bathroom. Instead, Williams told him to get in the game before he even sat down on the bench. Less than two minutes later, McCall hit a three-pointer with the shot clock winding down to make the score 99-71 with 1:28 remaining.