Exclamation points rarely come in the first half.
But with Maryland men’s basketball’s defense failing to contain the Iowa Hawkeyes from around the perimeter, that exclamation point came just before the first-half buzzer.
The Terps trailed 54-41 with a few seconds left in the half, having already given up nine threes and the most points they have allowed in a single half this season. Iowa guard Jordan Bohannon rained down three after three in the first half, but he added something extra just before the break. Bohannon spotted up once more from beyond the arc with the clock expiring and connected on his sixth three of the half to put Iowa up 57-41, a deficit which the Terps eventually wouldn’t be able to overcome.