Maryland officials say they will appeal some...

Maryland officials say they will appeal some of the NCAA sanctions imposed Monday that will ban the Terrapin men’s basketball program from postseason play in 1991 and 1992, prohibit the team from playing on television next season, and keep the program on probation for the next three years.

“We will base our appeal on our cooperation with the NCAA’s investigation, the actions the institution took (after the violations were uncovered) and having never before had a major violation,” said university president William Kirwan.

Gary Williams, Maryland’s basketball coach, said: “The appeal process is something in a democratic society that you do when you feel like what you did was the right thing and you did’t get the results you expected.”

Of the 36 schools that have been sanctioned since 1986 when the mandatory penalties began, only two have appealed the committee’s ruling, Marist in 1987 and Cleveland State in 1988. Neither won any reduction in penalties.