The sign of a young team is often to be impatient and sometimes a tad overconfident when playing against what it believes to be lesser competition.
Starting two freshman and playing five, the Maryland men’s basketball team exhibited both tendencies in Tuesday night’s 73-67 season-opening victory over Delaware at Xfinity Center.
Leading by 17 points at halftime after closing the first half and stretching the lead to as many 22, the Terps saw the Blue Hens close to within three with 1:21 left.
That’s where the most celebrated of the freshman took over — at the defensive end.