Maryland (14-8, 4-3 ACC), winning its fourth in five games and eight of 10, also got 14 points from James Gist and Eric Hayes and Greivis Vasquez added 13.
Georgia Tech (10-10, 3-4) was led by Zach Peacock, who had 18 points. Matt Causey added 12 and D'Andre Bellhad had 11 points.
Tech got within 85-82 on six straight points by Peacock with 1:05 left, then got the ball back when the Yellow Jackets' Alade Aminu blocked a layup by Vazquez with 35 seconds remaining.
Anthony Morrow badly missed a 3-point attempt to tie it with 19 seconds left and Osby made a pair of free throws his only points of the second half for a n 87-82 lead with 16.9 seconds left.
Tech had another slim chance when Jeremis Smith scored a basket to get within 87-84 with 8.7 seconds left and Vazquez missed two free throws with 7.7 seconds left.
Tech's Causey was fouled with 2.5 seconds left and made the first to make it 87-85. He tried to miss the second on purpose but it hit the backboard and went in to make it 87-86. Vazquez was fouled and made one of two with a second left for the final of 88-86.
The Yellow Jackets fell behind by 12 again at the start of the second half as Gist scored five straight points for a 53-41 lead. But Tech managed to get back in it and trailed by only 65-63 with 12:11 left on a basket by Causey and never got closer than six until the final minute.
Maryland leads the series 34-33 between the two schools, including six straight.
The Terrapins jumped out to a 9-0 lead and extended its biggest lead of the first half at 12 points to 36-24 before leading at intermission 50-41. Tech never got closer than four points in the opening half at 23-19 on a basket by Gani Lawal.
Osby, one of four Terrapins averaging in double figures for the season, had 16 first-half points, exceeding his season-average of 11.5 points and eight rebounds. Milbourne added nine points.
Peacock had eight points off the bench to lead the Yellow Jackets in the opening 20 minutes.
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