With a mask and without backcourt mate Eric Ayala, Darryl Morsell willed the Maryland men’s basketball team to victory.
The senior shooting guard from Baltimore scored 16 of his team-high 19 points in the second half to fuel the Terps’ 66-63 upset of No. 12 Illinois on Sunday night at the State Farm Center in Champaign, Illinois.
Sophomore forward Donta Scott, who entered the game leading Maryland in rebounding (7.3) and ranking second in scoring (12.9), contributed 16 points and seven rebounds to help the program end a three-game losing skid and avoid its first four-game losing streak under coach Mark Turgeon and first since a four-game stretch against former Atlantic Coast Conference rivals Clemson, North Carolina, Virginia Tech and Clemson again in the 2004-05 season.