COLLEGE PARK, Md. — No. 3 Maryland went into its practice Thursday bruised from Tuesday’s 70-67 loss at Michigan, just its second defeat of the season. The team proceeded to have at it.
“Guys were angry,” the senior guard Rasheed Sulaimon said. “We let one go that we thought we were going to win, and we took it out on each other.”
Coach Mark Turgeon called it his team’s “best practice of the year,” and it turned out that the true victim of Maryland’s Wolverines-induced anger was Saturday’s opponent, Ohio State, whom the Terrapins shellacked, 100-65.
The Terrapins (16-2, 5-1 Big Ten) — who also recalled that Ohio State had beaten them, 80-56, last season in Columbus — had their two highest-scoring halves of the season, even though Turgeon stopped playing most of his starters with more than seven minutes left and his team up by more than 40 points.