27 arrested after snowball-throwing group confronts police after Maryland beats No. 4 Duke

27 arrested near UMd. after Maryland beats Duke

COLLEGE PARK, Md. — Police say they’ve arrested 27 people, including some University of Maryland students, after hundreds of basketball fans turned confrontational near the College Park campus.

Police spokesman Cpl. Larry Johnson says about 1,500 people poured onto U.S. Route 1 in Prince George’s County after No. 22 Maryland beat No. 4 Duke 79-72 Wednesday night.

TV footage showed officers on horseback dispersing the crowd and police in riot gear patting down young men. Johnson says some threw snowballs and ice at police. One officer suffered minor injuries and also three of those arrested.

Johnson says charges ranging from civil disturbance to destruction of property are pending against those arrested. Campus police say smaller groups there set a tree and trash cans ablaze.