After four wins to open the season against mid-major competition in which the Maryland men’s basketball team averaged 84 points and shot almost 57% from the field, coach Mark Turgeon said he didn’t anticipate the team would be able to sustain such high numbers, especially once the team entered its Big Ten schedule.
But he couldn’t have envisioned the offensive drought his team suffered through for much of its first true road game of the season at Clemson on Wednesday night. Maryland shot 26.1% from the field in the first half and 40% for the game and turned the ball over 15 times in a 67-51 defeat, its first loss of the season.