Northwestern will try to shock the highly ranked Terrapins on Tuesday in College Park, which the Wildcats came up just short of doing last season.
When Northwestern, then boasting a 10-9 overall record (1-5 in the Big Ten) went down to College Park last year to play the No. 13 Maryland Terrapins on Jan. 25 as conference foes for the first time, the Wildcats were in the midst of an of what became a 10-game losing streak and had already seen their once-promising season fall into the gutter.
For the vast majority of the game, Northwestern was the better team, holding an 11-point lead with just over four minutes to play and actually was up 67-66 during the final seconds of play.