Maryland's home-court dominance began two days after Christmas in 2014.
Nearly 13,000 fans showed up at Xfinity Center to watch the vastly improved and recently ranked Terps defeat Oakland. When Maryland returned from its Big Ten Conference debutafter beating perennial power Michigan State in double overtime, the crowd for the first conference home game against Minnesota was nearly 16,000.
The crowds grew to capacity for a return game with the Spartans in late January and for nearly every Big Ten game since.
When No. 3 Iowa (16-3, 7-0 Big Ten) plays at No. 8 Maryland (17-3, 6-2) in the first meeting of top-10 men's programs on campus since Xfinity Center opened (as Comcast Center) in 2002-03, the home-court environment will seemingly be as big an advantage to Mark Turgeon's program as Comcast Center and Cole Field House were to many teams over the nearly 40 years combined that Gary Williams and Lefty Driesell coached the Terps.