College Park, Md. ? Students lit bonfires, threw bottles, climbed onto business roofs and shot off fireworks after Maryland beat Indiana in the NCAA championship game Monday night.
One student was cut badly when he was hit in the head with a bottle, and another was tackled by an ice cream shop employee after trying to ram a police barricade through the shop’s window.
Bonfires grew in several areas as items were tossed onto the blazes by students milling about.
Police were deployed in force, hoping to avoid a repeat of the violence Saturday night after Maryland’s semifinal victory over Kansas. They promised to “aggressively arrest” people who refused to disperse.
“This is terrible. We’ve finally started to lose the reputation as the Len Bias death school, and now we’re known as the riot school,” said student Josh Fingold, 21, referring to the 1986 cocaine overdose death of the Maryland basketball star.
At one bonfire, police moved in on horseback, circling the blaze to make room for police on foot and a fire truck that extinguished the blaze.
Last year, several homes were broken into and furniture was dragged into the street to fuel bonfires after Maryland’s loss to Duke in the Final Four. One fire caused an estimated $500,000 in damage and disrupted cable service when it burned through a fiber optic line.
With students back from spring break Monday, officials feared postgame celebrations could be even wilder than Saturday, when police in riot gear squared off against a crowd of about 2,000 students.
Fans also threw beer bottles, ripped down street signs, broke store windows and trashed two police cruisers during the three-hour melee that spilled into early Sunday morning. Police, who drove students from the streets around 1 a.m. using pepper spray, arrested two people.
College Park, Md. ? Students lit bonfires, threw bottles, climbed onto business roofs and shot off fireworks after Maryland beat Indiana in the NCAA championship game Monday night.
One student was cut badly when he was hit in the head with a bottle, and another was tackled by an ice cream shop employee after trying to ram a police barricade through the shop’s window.
Bonfires grew in several areas as items were tossed onto the blazes by students milling about.
Police were deployed in force, hoping to avoid a repeat of the violence Saturday night after Maryland’s semifinal victory over Kansas. They promised to “aggressively arrest” people who refused to disperse.
“This is terrible. We’ve finally started to lose the reputation as the Len Bias death school, and now we’re known as the riot school,” said student Josh Fingold, 21, referring to the 1986 cocaine overdose death of the Maryland basketball star.
At one bonfire, police moved in on horseback, circling the blaze to make room for police on foot and a fire truck that extinguished the blaze.
Last year, several homes were broken into and furniture was dragged into the street to fuel bonfires after Maryland’s loss to Duke in the Final Four. One fire caused an estimated $500,000 in damage and disrupted cable service when it burned through a fiber optic line.
With students back from spring break Monday, officials feared postgame celebrations could be even wilder than Saturday, when police in riot gear squared off against a crowd of about 2,000 students.
Fans also threw beer bottles, ripped down street signs, broke store windows and trashed two police cruisers during the three-hour melee that spilled into early Sunday morning. Police, who drove students from the streets around 1 a.m. using pepper spray, arrested two people.
College Park, Md. ? Students lit bonfires, threw bottles, climbed onto business roofs and shot off fireworks after Maryland beat Indiana in the NCAA championship game Monday night.
One student was cut badly when he was hit in the head with a bottle, and another was tackled by an ice cream shop employee after trying to ram a police barricade through the shop’s window.
Bonfires grew in several areas as items were tossed onto the blazes by students milling about.
Police were deployed in force, hoping to avoid a repeat of the violence Saturday night after Maryland’s semifinal victory over Kansas. They promised to “aggressively arrest” people who refused to disperse.
“This is terrible. We’ve finally started to lose the reputation as the Len Bias death school, and now we’re known as the riot school,” said student Josh Fingold, 21, referring to the 1986 cocaine overdose death of the Maryland basketball star.
At one bonfire, police moved in on horseback, circling the blaze to make room for police on foot and a fire truck that extinguished the blaze.
Last year, several homes were broken into and furniture was dragged into the street to fuel bonfires after Maryland’s loss to Duke in the Final Four. One fire caused an estimated $500,000 in damage and disrupted cable service when it burned through a fiber optic line.
With students back from spring break Monday, officials feared postgame celebrations could be even wilder than Saturday, when police in riot gear squared off against a crowd of about 2,000 students.
Fans also threw beer bottles, ripped down street signs, broke store windows and trashed two police cruisers during the three-hour melee that spilled into early Sunday morning. Police, who drove students from the streets around 1 a.m. using pepper spray, arrested two people.
College Park, Md. ? Students lit bonfires, threw bottles, climbed onto business roofs and shot off fireworks after Maryland beat Indiana in the NCAA championship game Monday night.
One student was cut badly when he was hit in the head with a bottle, and another was tackled by an ice cream shop employee after trying to ram a police barricade through the shop’s window.
Bonfires grew in several areas as items were tossed onto the blazes by students milling about.
Police were deployed in force, hoping to avoid a repeat of the violence Saturday night after Maryland’s semifinal victory over Kansas. They promised to “aggressively arrest” people who refused to disperse.
“This is terrible. We’ve finally started to lose the reputation as the Len Bias death school, and now we’re known as the riot school,” said student Josh Fingold, 21, referring to the 1986 cocaine overdose death of the Maryland basketball star.
At one bonfire, police moved in on horseback, circling the blaze to make room for police on foot and a fire truck that extinguished the blaze.
Last year, several homes were broken into and furniture was dragged into the street to fuel bonfires after Maryland’s loss to Duke in the Final Four. One fire caused an estimated $500,000 in damage and disrupted cable service when it burned through a fiber optic line.
With students back from spring break Monday, officials feared postgame celebrations could be even wilder than Saturday, when police in riot gear squared off against a crowd of about 2,000 students.
Fans also threw beer bottles, ripped down street signs, broke store windows and trashed two police cruisers during the three-hour melee that spilled into early Sunday morning. Police, who drove students from the streets around 1 a.m. using pepper spray, arrested two people.
