Guard Seth Allen became the fourth member of the Terrapins men’s basketball team in the past month to ask for a release to transfer, the team announced Friday afternoon.

Allen finished second on the Terps this season, scoring 13.4 points per game, and led the team with three assists per game as a sophomore. The Woodbridge, Virginia, native joins guards Nick Faust and Roddy Peters and center Shaquille Cleare as Terps who have been granted a released to transfer this offseason.

“I’ve grown close to Seth and his family over the past few years, so I am disappointed he has decided to leave Maryland,” coach Mark Turgeon said in a release. “I wish Seth the best.”

Faust committed to transfer to Oregon State last week, and Cleare announced on his Facebook page April 24 he was headed to Texas.

After missing the first 12 games of the 2013-14 campaign with a fractured bone in his foot, Allen took over as the Terps’ starting point guard Jan. 15 and started the final 15 games of a 17-15 season.

Darren Berkley, who coached Allen at Fredericksburg Christian School, said his former player will benefit from a new team with two years of eligibility left rather than transferring after his junior year, as Faust did.

“Especially coming off the surgery, it’ll be good for him to have that extra year,” Berkley said. “I still don’t think he’s 100 percent, but he’ll get there. He’ll have a fresh perspective, and he’ll be able to grow.”

Berkley spoke with Allen on Saturday afternoon while the guard was heading home to Woodbridge. Allen didn’t explain his reasoning behind transferring, but he told his prep coach he was optimistic for the future.

Berkley said the conversation was upbeat, but he believes Allen will miss his teammates and coaches in College Park.

“I think anytime you’re around people all the time, you develop those relationships,” Berkley said. “That’d be hard on anybody. Seth cares about people.”

Allen, originally recruited as a shooting guard, often flashed his ability to score this season and posted a career-high 32 points in an 83-71 victory over Florida State on Feb. 8. The sophomore also scored 18 points in an ACC tournament second-round game against Florida State, but the Terps lost 67-65 on a last-second dunk that ended the team’s season.

“That’s kind of the story of our season,” Allen said after the loss in Greensboro, North Carolina. “Things just didn’t bounce our way.”

With Allen departing, the Terps are left with 10 scholarship players next season, three of whom are guards: rising senior Dez Wells and incoming freshmen Melo Trimble and Dion Wiley. The Terps have also been rumored to be in the running to land IUPUI transfer guard Ian Chiles.

Turgeon took to social media Friday night to comment on the rash of transfers from his team this offseason by tweeting : “I’ll miss the guys leaving, but I love the commitment of our returning players and the class we have coming in #TerpNation”.

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