Maryland coach Mark Turgeon understands that a team with three freshmen starters will have its share of growing pains, the kind the Terps experienced with Sunday's late meltdown against Nebraska at Xfinity Center.
With those less-than-pleasant first-time experiences, Turgeon hopes his relatively young team will also show the kind of resilience that will make the Terps more battle-tested if the same situation repeats itself in another Big Ten game.
"I think you can tell if you're competitive or not. We've had a great week, a great team meeting, talked about why we lost the game, and what we could do to prevent it, then we watched film and then we talked about things moving forward," Turgeon said Friday after practice.