Moments after No. 3 Maryland had sealed an 11-8 victory over No. 8 Johns Hopkins on Saturday afternoon, Terps players wore gray-colored hats celebrating their ability to capture the Big Ten regular-season championship outright and earn the top seed in the conference tournament.
But it didn’t take senior midfielder Bryan Cole very long to begin thinking about Thursday’s semifinal against No. 19 Penn State at the same Homewood Field in Baltimore where Maryland had defeated the Blue Jays.
“Kind of getting the chance to win that outright for the first time was pretty nice,” Cole said.