As a freshman last season, Maryland center Bruno Fernando was more manchild than the man, more a second or third or even fourth option on a men’s basketball team that was, sometimes for better but often for worse, too guard-oriented.
In the first three games of his sophomore year, the only thing that has prevented the 6-foot-10 Angolan from completely dominating the competition has been his tendency to be called for fouls, sometimes in the kind of bunches with which Fernando seems to score.
After getting 14 points, nine rebounds and only one offensive foul in a little under 15 minutes the first half of Monday night’s 82-59 victory over North Carolina A&T at Xfinity Center, Fernando got whistled twice in the first 47 seconds of the second half.