Head coach Adam Hughes’s second season in College Park didn’t go as well as many Maryland volleyball fans had hoped for.
Nine wins in conference play in 2018, the program’s best since joining the Big Ten, plus a 9-5 record on the road caused heightened expectations, only for an injury-riddled Maryland team to lag behind as a bottom tier Big Ten program in 2019. The Terps went 13-19, including a mere 5-15 record in conference play.
In such a loaded conference, which includes six ranked teams, it’s tough to envision placement among the Big Ten’s elite. Yet there is room for optimism with a nationally ranked (No.