The Maryland men's basketball team left the court at Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis last Friday night after a 97-86 win over Nebraska in the Big Ten tournament quarterfinals feeling pretty good about the way it played — offensively.
While coach Mark Turgeon attributed the season's second-highest point total by an opponent to clearing his bench too early after building a 25-point lead, the true test for Maryland's defense would come when the third-seeded Terps played second-seeded, No. 2-ranked Michigan State on Saturday in the semifinals.