Rutgers returned home on a cool, sunny afternoon after suffering their first Big Ten loss in over a year this past Thursday at Penn State. For Maryland, it was an emotional homecoming for head coach Meghan Ryan Nemzer, who spent her prior 18 years on the banks as a player and coach for the Scarlet Knights. She was the associate head coach the last eight years under head coach Mike O’Neill, a testament to how strong this program truly is when you are placing assistants as head coaches on another Big Ten squads.
In front of a large, boisterous crowd, the Knights came out with purpose, controlling the play early in the Terps’s end and having ample opportunities to score in the opening half.