Jahmir Young continued his offensive tear and Maryland used stifling defense to end Michigan's recent domination of the Terps with a 62-58 win at Xfinity Center on Thursday night. With the win, they crawled back within one game of .500 in Big Ten play and handed nemesis Hunter Dickinson his first loss to Maryland.
Jahmir Young continued his offensive tear and Maryland used stifling defense to end Michigan's recent domination of the Terps with a 62-58 win at Xfinity Center on Thursday night. With the win, they crawled back within one game of .500 in Big Ten play and handed nemesis Hunter Dickinson his first loss to Maryland.
What Maryland hasn't found in that time is an answer for Michigan's size. One thing I forgot to mention about the embedded rebounding/free throw fest versus Ohio State is the Buckeyes were without Zed Key, who's really their only post presence. If anyone's found a playable center in the interim it's Michigan, who recently introduced a two-bigs lineup to get more minutes for Tarris Reed at the four. Reed was able to counter the bullyball of Kris Murray and provide enough offensive rebounding to combat small lineups. The algorithm does care about venue, but probably doesn't know about Hunter Dickinson's white-hot hatred of the local basketball outfit. Both he and fellow DMC native Terrance Williams II have played some of their best games before family in College Park. It also doesn't account for Kevin Willard. This will be an interesting test of Maryland's new coach, a defensive guy who came up under Pitino. Does he just go small all game and