Three takeaways from Maryland men’s basketball’s loss to Illinois

Maryland men’s basketball dropped to 8-6 on the season with a loss against Illinois. Coming into this matchup, the Terps had won seven of the last eight matchups and four consecutive times in Champaign, Illinois however, this time, Maryland could not quite seal the deal. Here are three takeaways from the game. For the second consecutive game, Maryland started slow, had the lead at halftime but could not close out the game. Illinois jumped out to an early lead and for a team that has struggled to build momentum early on, that spelled trouble. Against Iowa, they had the lead at the half but ended up not keeping the momentum going ultimately dropping that matchup. After guard Eric Ayala hit a three at the 18:24 minute mark, the Terps were not able to find any points in over two minutes as a result of an 8-0 run the Illini went on early on. Fatts Russell snapped that drought to bring the game to 13-4 however, into the first media timeout, the Terps had not scored a field goal in nearly three minutes. Maryland did not find that shot from the field until forward Donta Scott sank a jumper with about 14 and a half minutes remaining in the first half. About a minute later, a steal from freshman forward Julian Reese eventually led to Scott attacking the rim, drawing the foul from Kofi Cockburn and going 1-for-1 from the free-throw line to make it a 15-7 game. At that point, Cockburn had two fouls and came out of the game. About halfway through the first half, the Terps found themselves in a familiar situation — down by a significant amount, scoreless for over two minutes and having made just one of their last seven attempted shots from the field. With about eight and a half minutes to go, Maryland started to heat up. All of a sudden, momentum shifted and the Terps were on a 6-0 run. After Illinois continued to keep its distance, the Terps began chipping away at the lead and with four and half minutes, they were down by just four points. The Illini drew the foul and grew the lead to five but the Terps had heated up. With just a few minutes remaining in the half, the Terps had landed three consecutive field goals. With two and half minutes to go, Maryland grabbed the rebound, the Terps moved the ball around the arc and Scott sank a shot from three-point range to put the Terps up by two. And despite being down big early on, the Terps had the 34-30 lead at halftime. However, the Illini had two plays early in the second half to make it a one-point game. Both teams had the hot hand and with less than 16 minutes to go, both teams hit their last three attempted field goals and the game was tied at 42 apiece.“Every game that we’ve play in this league so far, we’ve shown those flashes,” interim head coach Danny Manning said. “We just had to have longer sustained periods of those flashes throughout the course of the ballgame. All data is taken from the source: http://testudotimes.com Article Link: https://www.testudotimes.com/2022/1/7/22871233/three-takeaways-from-maryland-mens-basketball-loss-illinois-donta-scott-kofi-cockburn-julian-reese #IllinoisBasketball #newsabc #newsworldnow #newstodayworld #newsworldtoday #newstodaylocal #

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