It’s December, which means it’s time for ... conference play?
Maryland basketball hosts Purdue on Friday night to start the Big Ten season. With the conference holding its postseason tournament in Madison Square Garden a week earlier than normal, league play starts earlier as well. Rather than shorten the Christmas break, those early games are on the first weekend of December.
This should be an interesting test for the Terps, who are 6-2 but have lost two close games in their last three contests. Maryland’s off to a good start in most facets of the game, but a 25.