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Julian Reese goes for 27-points and 17 rebounds in Maryland’s road win over #17 Illinois

After dropping both games on its Pacific Northwest trip, Maryland looked to be in a bit of danger as Big Ten play started to heat up. Since arriving back in College Park, the Terrapins have flipped that script, now winners in four of their last five games. Three of the wins came at home, with UCLA, Minnesota, and Nebraska all falling at the XFINITY Center.

The fourth win of the stretch came last night in Champaign, as the Terps stunned a ranked Illinois team that was already coming off a loss. Maryland has been maybe the one team in the Big Ten that hasn’t paid attention to the recent success of Illinois though, now defeating the Illini in 10 of the last 13 matchups.

After a tight loss to Michigan State on Sunday, Illinois came into the game a little banged up and without its starting center, Tomislav Ivisic, but that isn’t to take away anything from what Maryland did.

The Terps led on the road for most of the first half, but a late Kylan Boswell three-pointer made it just a three-point game at halftime. Julian Reese balanced his scoring throughout the game, coming up with 12 points in the first half and 15 in the second half. His frontcourt partner Derik Queen added to Reese’s 27-point, 17-rebound performance with 25 points, six rebounds, four assists, and three steals of his own.

The game stayed within striking distance for a while, with the Illini deficit at nine with under seven minutes to play. Maryland would run the home team out of the building over the final few minutes though, with Queen and Selton Miguel (14 points) doing much of the damage late en route to a 91-70 road victory.

Illinois was led by Kasparas Jakucionis, who scored 21 points and added seven rebounds and seven assists. There wasn’t too much else going for the Illini though, who desperately missed Ivisic and his post presence.

For Maryland, it will take the momentum into a stretch of winnable games coming up, going to Indiana, Ohio State and Nebraska over the next three weeks, with home games against Wisconsin and Rutgers sandwiched in between. The Terrapins sit at 5-4 in Big Ten play now, just half a game back of fourth place and a double-bye in the Big Ten Tournament in mid-March.

Illinois sits at 5-4 in conference as well, looking to snap a rough patch of three losses in four games with a home rematch on Sunday against Northwestern, who took down the Illini in overtime in early December.

Other Things to Note:

• #24 Memphis pulls away late to beat Wichita State 61-53
• Marquel Sutton’s 24 points leads Omaha to 89-78 win over St. Thomas to move the Mavericks to 6-0 in league play
• Paulius Murauskas scores 24 as Saint Mary’s dominates San Francisco 71-51
• #10 Marquette hosts Villanova while trying to keep pace at the top of the Big East (7:00 ET, FS1)
• #11 Purdue looks to avoid second consecutive loss in Mackey Arena while hosting #21 Michigan (8:00 ET, FOX)