There wasn't a lot of energy for the Maryland men’s basketball team inside Xfinity Center for the first half of Friday’s night’s game against Hofstra. Not from a small crowd, and certainly not from the Terps themselves.
Then, seemingly out of nowhere, the crowd and Mark Turgeon’s team woke up.
Was it sophomore center Bruno Fernando rescuing an air-balled 3-point try by sophomore guard Darryl Morsell that wound up with freshman guard Eric Ayala hitting one of his own? Was it Morsell seemingly rising to rafters — or at least over the rim — to nearly dunk in a miss by Ayala?