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Maryland's Tre Watson braces for challenge of facing former Illinois teammates

Earlier this week, Maryland graduate linebacker Tre Watson met up with some of his former Illinois teammates in cyberspace, hoping to get the best of them.

“Yesterday I was playing Xbox with Del’Shawn Phillips and Reggie Corbin,” Watson said this week. “I was definitely not going to let those relationships fracture because I left.”

Watson will leave those "NBA2K” battles behind him Saturday — along with the three seasons he spent playing for the Fighting Illini — when he and the Terps face Illinois at Maryland Stadium in the first-ever meeting between the schools.