No. 8 Maryland needs to rebound better against No. 3 Iowa

Transfers Robert Carter and Rasheed Sulaimon led Maryland (18-3 overall) with 17 points apiece and they also combined for 11 rebounds and nine assists. WHAT SHARPS SAY: “Iowa has seemingly been a team on a mission this season”. Jok struggled with consistency early in the season but recently that hasn’t been too much of an issue as he has scored in double figures in seven of his last eight games.

“I had to get something going because I was playing awful”, Uthoff said. He wasn’t able to get the ball to shooters in rhythm like he usually does-though Iowa’s misses were so bad it might not have made a difference anyway.

Iowa: The Hawkeyes were denied their 14th consecutive Big Ten win, which would have tied a school record….

The fifth-ranked Maryland women’s basketball team (17-2, 6-1 B1G) will host No. 18 Michigan State (14-4, 5-2) on Friday, Feb. 5 at 7 p.m.at the XFINITY Center. This is probably the biggest game yet in Big Ten play for the conference. Playing at College Park is not an easy task these days – add in the fact that Maryland needed a top RPI win and upsets have been fairly common in college basketball this season – and this result wasn’t all that surprising. “His low post game is one of the best in the country, and then he can follow it up and make three’s so we’re really hard to guard”.

Coming off a 74-65 loss Saturday at Michigan State, the No. 8 Terrapins will seek to bounce back at home against third-ranked Iowa in a pivotal Big Ten matchup. And in the final 20 minutes, the style yielded to two stellar defenses that transformed the game from free flowing to a slow and grueling possession-by-possession test of wills. But they still lack that marquee win, and some fans are now questioning, can they beat the best of the best?

“(Trimble) is just as unsafe when he’s looking for shots for himself as he is when he’s loading other people up”, Iowa coach Fran McCaffery said.

“It takes poise, poise under pressure”, said senior Adam Woodbury.

Georgetown is now in sole possession of second place in the Big East following Tuesday’s dramatic come from behind win over Creighton, but the Hoyas still have serious work to do.

Iowa’s outside shooting never heats up, and the Hawkeyes finally drop one in conference play.

So let me grab my violin and play a few notes for the coaches. Back for a second season is the “30-block” season ticket, priced at $99, where tickets can be used at any game or combination of games throughout the season. Iowa will win the battle on the boards, but Maryland will get out and run in transition and come out on top.

Mike Gesell is an important piece of the Hawkeye offense, and nowhere was that more on display than in this game; Gesell was hounded into four turnovers and registered just one assist on the game. They still play like they’re unfamiliar for stretches.

Jerome Scherwin Jr.: I don’t know if there is such a thing as an “off night” for Iowa. Maryland is the slight favorite and I think they end up pulling it out, 71-69. But Balentine hit a long fadeway trey to send the game into overtime. “The size, the versatility, that’s what makes Maryland so tough”.