Maryland men's basketball falls short of upset, 65-63, over No. 13 Michigan State

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Fifty-fifty though the rankings and records pointed to a considerable disparity between the two sides, Maryland competed — to the very final second.

Smothered on the drive and on his rise to the rim, the Spartan'south Malik Hall finished the layup to exist the last second hero.

Following his get-ahead layup and with just one.9 on the clock, Maryland (11-xi, 3-viii B1G)  was forced to launch an unsuccessful half-court heave and went on to exit Xfinity Center for the second straight night fruitlessly, in a 65-63 loss to No. 13 Michigan Land (17-iv, 8-ii B1G) in front end of some other commanding oversupply — which was this fourth dimension draped in blackness.

Whether it was by virtue of the poor start that Michigan State trudged through in the first half or the willing defence and ambitious shot-taking of Maryland, it was clear the Terps were inclined to challenge 1 of the Big X's all-time — an encouraging sign for a team that is seemingly headed through the most challenging role of its schedule.

"Extremely happy and proud of the endeavour our guys used to fight back … we're gonna feed off this down the stretch," interim caput coach Manning said. "We can definitely pull a couple things from this game and … use this equally we go into the tail end of the conference season."

Indeed, the Terps did enough to challenge the Spartans, but were far too undermanned to discover a reasonable way to beat them.

With just viii players in the rotation for the night, Maryland's climb dorsum from a 10 point halftime deficit was an uphill battle. The 7-two run to open the period and extend the Spartan lead to 15 but made matters worse for the underdogs.

Michigan State'southward success was a product of the turnovers Maryland let up in spurts — four in the ten-0 run to end the first half and 1 to lengthen the second half. Most of which were of the preventable multifariousness; travels and errant passes stunted the Terps as the Spartans scored 17 points off of their mistakes.

So, with its limited lineup, Maryland sought to cover the ground they lost with an eleven-0 run, and spent the residuum of the closing menstruation jostling back-and-forth to make up the 4 signal difference.

"Energy and juice," Manning said, referring to what made the divergence every bit Maryland made its way dorsum into the game. "Being able to feed off the crowd when we were able to get stops and deflections was actually big for u.s.a.."

Fifteen minutes of tireless basketball game began with an Eric Ayala and-ane layup and concluded with a game-tying Fatts Russell three. In between, Maryland aptly limited it'south turnovers and battled on the defensive end to go along the Spartans shut.

Plenty of successful trips to the line granted Maryland 13 piece of cake points as well.

Qudus Wahab slammed once to make clean up a poor drive to the cup, Julian Reese livened the crowd with his own 6-1 run, Donta Scott responded to a poor shooting streak with a handful of drives to the basket that broke his spell of lifeless outings and suddenly Maryland had a chance to upset Manning's ideal brand of basketball — offense that lived in the paint coupled with considerable looks from the charity stripe.

The Spartan's dug deep in their rotation and leaned on the all-around play of their numerous role players, like Hall, who came off the bench and finished with a game high 16 points. Michigan State rolled out ten other athletes to make an eleven-human being rotation. Maryland fabricated practice with its eight men, but information technology came at the price of Ayala logging 39 minutes and Scott nearly fouling out in his 29 minute outing.

Reese was the only demote role player who mustered points in the second half and scored his only six points of the game in the closing half. Maryland was outscored 26-8 in bench points.

But one time Russell splashed his three from the top of the central to even the game to 61 apiece and inject more life into the oversupply, he let out a sigh of relief and relaxed his shoulders. He was tired, and the hard work had been done. Maryland conquered its fifteen-bespeak disadvantage — merely information technology wasn't enough to win.

Both sides exchanged points in free throws, and Michigan Land ended as the last to score and Spartans head coach Tom Izzo and Hall fabricated certain Maryland was left with no time to convert a quality answer. Russell's half courtroom 3-ball banged off the backboard at the final cablegram.

"Equally a team, I thought we fought hard," Ayala said. "[That's] something nosotros tin can build off of."

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