The four-hour bus ride from New York City back to campus was mostly quiet for the Maryland men’s basketball team after its game Saturday against Illinois at Madison Square Garden.
By the time the Terps arrived at Xfinity Center, coach Mark Turgeon could sense that his players had put a stunning and stupefying 78-67 loss to the Fighting Illini behind them, even if he had not.
While Turgeon could see that his team was “as down as we’ve been” this season, he also noticed that his players were not thinking about the team’s first two-game losing streak of the season.