Maryland men’s basketball suffers its second consecutive loss at Indiana
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Post moves, dunks, rebounds and putbacks — it didn't matter. Maryland (6-5, 1-4 B1G) had no answers for Trayce Jackson-Davis. Indiana's (7-4, two-2 B1G) star large man posted his sixth twenty-point functioning of the season enroute to a convincing victory.
Following a wearisome outset, the Hoosiers supplanted the Terps in the 2d one-half and handed them their fifth loss of the flavour on a 63-55 scoreline.
It didn't have long for Maryland's defense to impose itself on Indiana's criminal offense. The Hoosiers had merely managed to convert three field goals in the opening ten minutes of the game. And afterwards Armaan Franklin left the game with an talocrural joint injury, Indiana guards were non-factors on criminal offence and the Terps' attempt to limit Davis' post touches came easier.
"Our guys were locked in defensively in the starting time one-half," guard Aaron Wiggins said. "But once they got boards they got going."
Despite an early, suffocating defensive showing past Maryland, Race Thompson took it upon himself to will the Hoosiers back into the game. Thompson scored 7 of the Hoosiers 12 points in a game tying run that erased a x-point deficit. The junior frontward deemed for four of the Hoosiers 9 field goals in the commencement half and was just three rebounds and a point away from posting a double-double in the opening period. Maryland's law-breaking struggled as well, simply timely shots from the likes of Hakim Hart and Aaron Wiggins were enough to position the Terps with a half dozen-point lead entering the 2d half.
"Our offense let united states of america downward tonight," head passenger vehicle Marking Turgeon said. "Nosotros didn't move the ball as quickly every bit nosotros needed to,"
Fortunately for Indiana, the Terps haven't played a full 40 minutes of defensively sound basketball all season — and things didn't alter at Bloomington. With Maryland'due south defense and offense largely absent in the terminal 20 minutes, a comeback try, led past Jackson-Davis, willed the Hoosiers by the lifeless Terps.
Following a Jerome Hunter three that put the Hoosiers up 45-43, Jackson-Davis went on to score the next 12 points for Indiana in just six minutes. After putting up just 5 points and half dozen rebounds in the first half, Jackson-Davis posted 17 points and 9 boards in the terminal one-half and helped extend Indiana's 2nd pb of the game to double digits and ultimately secure the win.
"We were slow on our rotations," Turgeon said. "Our rotations just weren't quick plenty and that's really the but chance nosotros had."
It didn't help that Maryland was getting out-rebounded also. In the closing half, Indiana was able to produce 16 defensive rebounds and matched its success on the offensive side of the ball with 7 offensive boards. Maryland had just 14 total rebounds and allowed nine second-take a chance points in the terminal period. The Hoosiers finished with an eight-betoken atomic number 82.
"It really just came down to rebounding," Turgeon said. "We but got our tails kicked on the boards and that was the difference. That and united states of america not beingness able to make an open up shot tonight."
The Big Ten gauntlet continues against No. 5 Iowa on Thursday.
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