Maryland junior point guard Jaylen Brantley logged just one minute in Tuesday’s loss to North Carolina, watching quietly from the bench as Melo Trimble and Rasheed Sulaimon played a combined 78 minutes in the team’s first loss of the year. It was another test of patience for Brantley, the talented junior college transfer who has bided his time as a little-used reserve through the first month of the season.
But Brantley continued to show his upside in Maryland’s 96-55 win over Saint Francis on Friday night, where he enjoyed his first field goal as a Terrapin and finished with more points (7) than Trimble (3).