There’s a tie atop the Big Ten and the two teams jostling for the lead meet Friday night when No. The Terrapins (18-4, 8-3) ran their win streak to five with a pulse-pounding 56-51 win over visiting Rutgers on Tuesday in College Park — where Maryland is now 13-0. The Illini and Terrapins had a taut contest themselves in College Park in December, Illinois squandering a 14-point lead and bowing 59-58. The Terrapins held Illinois to 6-of-22 shooting (27.2 percent) in the second half and limited Illinois’ Big Three of Ayo Dosunmu, Kofi Cockburn and Trent Frazier to just 31 points and 11-of-26 shooting. Maryland has a 10-6 lead in the all-time series with Illinois, 5-2 since the Terrapins joined the Big Ten in 2014 (including victories in the last two games in Champaign).

Source: National Post February 07, 2020 01:07 UTC