Maryland men’s basketball entered Saturday facing a desperate Penn State squad that was reeling from three consecutive losses, putting its postseason hopes in jeopardy. The Terps, on the other hand, had every reason to be comfortable despite dropping their last game, as they were the only team in the Big Ten still unbeaten in home conference games and found themselves mostly playing for postseason seeding rather than fate.
For most of Saturday’s contest, Penn State looked like the more desperate team, keeping itself in the game with clutch shots to answer every threat Maryland made to pull away.