PISCATAWAY, N.J. — Many of the Maryland Terrapins had played in the most raucous environment of their careers three days earlier when the Caitlin Clark show sold out Xfinity Center for the first time since 2016. Every player who stepped on the floor could feel the energy in the building, and the Terps mostly matched it during an eight-point loss to Iowa, a Big Ten power.
Tuesday night was much different: a road game against the conference’s last-place team in front of a sparse crowd. Could the Terps possibly play with the same sense of urgency?