In Maryland basketball’s conference opener Saturday against Penn State, Anthony Cowan Jr. struggled for nearly 38 minutes. As he brought the ball up the floor with his team up 58-55, Cowan had scored just nine points on 4-of-10 shooting, missed all four of his three-point attempts and committed five turnovers.
But with the shot clock running down and just over two minutes remaining, Cowan pulled up from the elbow and drained a long ball that doubled Maryland’s lead from three to six.
And in the final minute, the shot clock again approaching zero, Cowan fired from even deeper.