Players, coaches and members of the athletic training staff from the Maryland men’s basketball team quietly milled about outside the locker room at Iowa’s Carver-Hawkeye Arena last week while equipment managers transported the last of the bags to a charter bus bound shortly for the airport.
Then, racing around the corner and up the hallway fresh from an on-court interview with the Big Ten Network came Jahmir Young, who moments earlier had crafted a breathtaking finish with a decisive basket in the closing seconds that sealed a come-from-behind win against the Hawkeyes.