Maryland basketball beat a ranked team on the road for the first time in 11 years Tuesday night, knocking off Iowa 66-65 in a roller coaster of a basketball game.
You read that right—it’s been 11 years.
On Jan. 19, 2008, Maryland beat No. 1 and previously undefeated North Carolina in Chapel Hill, 82-80. Bambale Osby hit the go-ahead bucket with 21 seconds remaining. Since then, though, the Terps lost 27 straight road games against ranked opponents, including their first 19 such contests in Mark Turgeon’s tenure. Most of them were blowouts against clearly better teams, and Maryland wasn’t favored in any of these games, but for the drought to last that long is really something.