With graduate guard Fatts Russell and senior guard Eric Ayala having quite the second-half revival, all junior guard Hakim Hart needed to do was to make a layup to make Xfinity Center erupt.
Hart intercepted a careless pass that was headed for the top of the arc and then he was off to the races. The guard made his way toward the basket and embraced some contact en route to an and-one layup, which sent Maryland’s sea of red shirts into its biggest frenzy of the game. Hart’s layup and eventual free throw capped off Maryland’s 7-0 run and gave it a 54-42 lead with under nine minutes left.