Assessing who exceeded expectations and who didn't in the Terps loss to the Spartans.
Maryland lost its seventh game in a row to Michigan State Saturday. That was expected. S&P+ gave the Terps a 22 percent chance of winning and projected a 14-point margin of victory for the Spartans, so no one's really surprised the Terps lost. The script was familiar: Maryland couldn't move the ball on offense, and the superior team secured its in the second half. Now the Terps have two more shots to get a Big Ten win this season.
Here's a non-exhaustive list of who played well Saturday and who didn't:
Stock rising
Yannick Ngakoue, defensive end: He's established himself as Maryland's best player, with Will Likely being the only player who even comes close.