Mark Turgeon takes to Twitter to complain about lack of Maryland players on Big Ten All-Freshman Team

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You might not expect the Big Ten All-Freshman Team to cause so much social-media uproar, but that's what it's done in a certain set of social-media circles.

Plenty of folks were scratching their heads over the omission of certain Big Ten freshmen when the team was announced with all the other end-of-season conference awards on Monday night.

The roster is nothing to shake a stick at: Michigan State's Miles Bridges, Penn State's Tony Carr, Minnesota's Amir Coffey and a pair of Iowa Hawkeyes in Jordan Bohannon and Tyler Cook.

But there was a good deal of wondering why Michigan State big man Nick Ward was left off that list, as well as a search party out to locate any members of Maryland's talented freshman trio of Justin Jackson, Anthony Cowan and Kevin Huerter.

One of the people unhappy about the lack of Terps was that team's head coach, Mark Turgeon, and he took to Twitter on Tuesday to voice his frustration.

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Certainly Turgeon has an argument to make, as his freshmen were undoubtedly among the conference's best, and the three of them stacked up second, third and fourth on Maryland's scoring list this season behind First Team All-Big Ten pick Melo Trimble in a year when the Terps claimed the No. 3 seed in the Big Ten Tournament.

Jackson probably had the best case to make for inclusion on the All-Freshman Team. He's averaging 10.7 points per game to go along with 6.3 rebounds a game, a mark that ranks just outside the top 10 in the conference. Jackson also ranks fourth in the Big Ten in 3-point shooting, hitting 43.9 percent of his shots from behind the arc.

But Cowan has had a great year, too. He's averaging 10.4 points a game and 3.7 assists a game, the latter number ranking in the top 10 in the league. He also ranks in the top 10 in the Big Ten in steals and in the top 15 in assist-to-turnover ratio and free-throw percentage.

Huerter is averaging 8.7 points per game, 5.0 rebounds per game and 2.5 assists per game, plus he ranks in the top 15 in the Big Ten in made 3-pointers, with 59 of them on the year.

Of course, all the guys that did make the team have had strong seasons, too, and the same can certainly be said of Ward, perhaps the biggest snub. He's averaging 13.6 points and 6.3 rebounds per game, plus he ranks second in the league in field-goal percentage (58.7 percent) and third in blocked shots (50).

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