COLLEGE PARK — Entering Monday’s game, the Maryland women’s basketball team played like it belonged 11 spots higher than No. 12 in the country.
But even as they scraped through their most difficult home game yet, the Terps emerged still the team to beat in the Big Ten Conference, edging a defiant Indiana squad, 84-80, and ruining the Hoosiers’ perfect Big Ten record while maintaining their own. The four-point deficit ties Maryland’s smallest margin of victory this season, matching its win over Rutgers in December, but the Terps’ perfect streak against conference opponents stretched to 20 wins.
Once again, sophomore guards Diamond Miller and Ashley Owusu heavily influenced the Terps’ path towards triumph, splitting 40 points evenly between them.