The 2019 Maryland men’s basketball team couldn’t have experienced a more bittersweet conclusion to its season.
On March 8, the team stood triumphantly on the Xfinity Center court, celebrating its share of the Big Ten regular-season title, the first since the program moved to the conference. A battle-tested team in perhaps the nation’s top league spoke optimistically about a deep run in the Big Ten and NCAA tournaments.
By March 12, the Terps learned that the conference tournament, set to take place in Indianapolis, had been canceled. The NCAA shortly followed in shuttering its tournament, bringing Maryland’s season to a screeching halt.