The Maryland men’s basketball team’s first visit to the Breslin Center as a member of the Big Ten came five seasons ago, producing a grind-it-out overtime win that set the table for the Terps to be the league’s surprise team that year.
The last visit before Monday night didn’t go so well, a 30-point loss last season that was the most one-sided Big Ten defeat for one of coach Mark Turgeon’s teams. The much-anticipated rematch for No. 13 Maryland was not that awful, but not good either.
Except for a stretch in the first half when the young Terps erased an early 12-point deficit to tie the game at 20, Maryland didn’t seem quite ready for such a big — and boisterous — stage, losing to the No.