FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Coming out of a late fourth-quarter timeout with the national championship on the line, senior Nick Manis couldn’t help but smile.
“We were running out there with two minutes left and we had to make a stop, we’re all smiling at each other like, ‘This is where we've been. This is where we want to be,’” Manis said in the postgame press conference.
In Maryland’s 9-6 title game victory over Ohio State, the Buckeyes surged for three straight goals late in the fourth to cut the Terps’ lead to two. With possession coming out of a timeout, Maryland needed a defensive stop against a squad with nothing to lose, a situation the team has been in countless times.