Rarely do college basketball teams drop out of the Top 25 after victories, yet that is what happened to Maryland after it needed a second-half comeback to beat American in the season opener.
A little more than two months later, the Terps (16-2, 4-1 Big Ten) are again ranked 25th, as they were going into the season, and seem like a different team heading into Thursday's game at Iowa (11-8, 3-3).
The Terps are tied for first place in the Big Ten, have won their first two league road games and, as they did Saturday at Illinois, will go into Carver-Hawkeye Arena carrying the memory of a blowout defeat there two years ago.