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Five takeaways from Indiana’s loss to Maryland

Indiana battled, but dropped a close one on Sunday afternoon, 77-76 to Maryland, on Sunday afternoon at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall. The loss dropped the Hoosiers to 15-5 overall and 5-4 in Big Ten play.

Here are five takeaways from the loss to the Terrapins:

· Defense struggles, particularly in the first half: While Indiana’s offense put together one of its better performances of the season in Sunday’s loss, its defense struggled for a good part of the afternoon.

Indiana allowed Maryland to get comfortable from the perimeter early in the game – the Terps made their first four 3-point attempts – and it resulted in 45 points on 29 first half possessions (1.