Following back-to-back losses to Clemson and No. 11 Rutgers, Maryland men’s basketball head coach Mark Turgeon realized his team was lacking in one of the game’s most crucial areas.
That something was toughness, a mentality that’s often been a constant both with past and present players under Turgeon, but had not translated to the floor so far this season.
“We’ve got to be a lot tougher than we were against Rutgers,” Turgeon said on Monday. “And we worked a lot on that, just trying to be a little bit tougher basketball team. When we get tired and things get tough, we’ve just got to fight through it.