Testudo Times - Big Ten basketball tournament 2016: Bracket updates, previews, game times, scoresSB Nation's award-winning Maryland Terrapins sitehttps://cdn.vox-cdn.com/community_logos/50025/testudo-fav.png2016-03-12T20:33:59-05:00http://www.testudotimes.com/rss/stream/109131052016-03-12T20:33:59-05:002016-03-12T20:33:59-05:00Reaction: How does loss impact NCAA seeding?
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<p>Our Facebook Live segment from Indianapolis.</p> <p>In the wake of Maryland's loss to Michigan State on Saturday, the only drama left before the NCAA Tournament is where the Terrapins will be seeded, and where they'll play. From Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, we talked on Saturday evening about that and more from the Terps' contentious Big Ten semifinal against the Spartans. Here's the tape:</p>
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<p>The Maryland Terrapins now look toward NCAA March Madness.</p>
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<p>Our view: Maryland is almost certainly a No. 4 or 5 seed, with a nonzero chance of getting a No. 3 or 6 if the NCAA's selectors either really hate or really love the Terps for some reason we don't understand. The Terps' losing by three points to Michigan State shouldn't hurt them, but it also shouldn't help them given all the teams on Saturday and Sunday who will actually <i>win </i>their conference tournaments.</p>
<p>We also talked about Melo Trimble. He had a bad game on Saturday and might have even cost Maryland a victory (though so could have many things). But his contributions to Maryland over the last few seasons – and the things he's continued to do well amid a prolonged slump – should be getting more attention than they are.</p>
https://www.testudotimes.com/maryland-terps-basketball/2016/3/12/11212992/terps-big-ten-tournament-ncaa-seeding-michigan-stateMatt EllentuckAlex Kirshner2016-03-12T20:24:51-05:002016-03-12T20:24:51-05:00Maryland's big defensive step forward
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<p>Michigan State's best three scorers struggled to find their offensive rhythm against Maryland.</p> <p>In a <a href="http://www.testudotimes.com/2016/3/12/11212224/big-ten-tournament-results-maryland-michigan-state-final-score">losing effort</a> on Saturday, Maryland made one of the best offensive teams in the country struggle in a low-scoring affair and contained maybe the country's best player in the semifinal of a conference tournament in March. That alone deserves its own praise, despite it ending in a three-point loss.</p>
<p>The Michigan State Spartans shot 42 percent from the field, down more than 6 percent from what they averaged during conerence play. They also turned the ball over 13 times. It was the first time since they beat Maryland a year ago that Michigan State beat a Big Ten opponent by less than 8 points.</p>
<p>"I think it's best game we played defensively all year," said Damonte Dodd. "I mean, man, I'm lost for words how well Rasheed [Sulaimon] and all of us defended Valentine and Costello and Forbes. The awareness on the court was tremendous, but we came up short."</p>
<p>Sulaimon had Valentine's number for almost the entire night, allowing him to score just 6 points in the first half on one made field goal and two of the four free throws which came off a technical foul unrelated to him.</p>
<p>For the game Valentine finished with his usual 18 points, 10 assists and 7 rebounds, but got there with his third-lowest shooting percentage of the season at 4-for-12 (33.3 percent). He also had 4 turnovers, something he's on just six other occasions this season.</p>
<p>"Team defense," said Sulaimon. "I can't take all the credit at all. I just tried to keep him in front of me to make it tough."</p>
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<p>"Without guys like Robert Carter or Damonte Dodd or Diamond Stone showing hard on screens and helping me get square back to him instead of going downhill and being at a disadvantage, that really helped me." said Sulaimon. "And once I got him back in front I just tried to make him work for everything."</p>
<p>It wasn't just the defensive effort against Valentine, the Terrapins also shut down two guys who gave them problems during their first meeting this season.</p>
<p>"We went by the gameplay and our focus was on Costello, Forbes and Valentine and we did a pretty good job on that," said Dodd.</p>
<p>After scoring 25 points in his try against Maryland, Forbes scored just 4 on 2-of-6 shooting and Costello had 10 points on 2-of-5 shooting.</p>
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<p>As a team the Terrapins shot just 33 percent, and needed this leap in defensive cohesiveness to stay close in the final seconds. If they can put together the offensive display they showed against Nebraska with what they did on the other end against Michigan State, Maryland will be one tough out in the tournament.</p>
<p>"I definitely think we played to our potential tonight defensively," said Sulaimon, "and going forward it has to be like that every night to give ourselves a chance to win."</p>
<p>Maryland will learn its NCAA Tournament draw on Sunday.</p>
https://www.testudotimes.com/maryland-terps-basketball/2016/3/12/11212726/terps-spartans-denzel-valentine-defense-scoreMatt Ellentuck2016-03-12T20:00:36-05:002016-03-12T20:00:36-05:00Maryland did a lot – but not enough – right
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<p>The advanced statistical review from Maryland's loss against Michigan State.</p> <p>The Maryland men's basketball team <a href="http://www.testudotimes.com/2016/3/12/11212622/big-ten-tournament-2016-did-eron-harris-foul-melo-trimble-at-buzzer">fell to Michigan State</a> in a Big Ten Tournament semifinal on Saturday. It was an ugly yet entertaining affair, and Maryland did a lot of things well, but not quite enough to win.</p>
<p>This is how Maryland did in the "four factors" of team efficiency: effective field goal percentage (eFG%), turnover percentage (TOV%), offensive rebounding percentage (ORB%) and free throw tries per field goal attempt (FTA/FGA).</p>
<p>Overall, it's a positive picture. Maryland hung with Michigan State and outplayed the Spartans in several facets of the game. But just like Maryland's win against Nebraska on Friday <a href="http://www.testudotimes.com/2016/3/12/11202896/big-ten-tournament-2016-maryland-nebraska-final-score-stats-box">came down to tons of good shooting</a>, this loss came down to not enough of it.</p>
<h4>Shooting</h4>
<p id="paragraph2"><b><b>Maryland: 40.7 eFG%</b><br><b>Michigan State: 50 eFG%</b><br>National average: 49.9 eFG%</b></p>
<p id="paragraph3">This was Maryland's biggest problem. The Terps' offense from the field was miserable, especially when they went a full 10 minutes in the second half with scoring a basket. That doesn't work, even when a team's defense clamps down. And Maryland's did, holding Michigan State to 6-of-21 shooting in the second half. It wasn't quite enough.</p>
<p>Maryland consistently couldn't create shots from half-court sets, and Melo Trimble was particularly bothered against the Spartans' aggressive press on him – activated whenever the Terrapins tried to set ball screens for Trimble. He shot 2-of-15 from the field, which really hurt Maryland.</p>
<p>"They stayed long on ball screens. They didn't let me have any easy shots - no open shots. They did a really good job," Trimble said. "I've never been through that, people guarding the ball screen like that, what they did to me. This is an adjustment that I'm going to have to make going to the next game, because they might look at film and see they can stop me by blitzing me on the ball screen."</p>
<h4>Turnovers</h4>
<p id="paragraph4"><b><b>Maryland: 10.1 TOV%</b><br><b>Michigan State: 20.8 TOV%</b><br>National average: 18.2 TOV%</b></p>
<p id="paragraph5">The Terps did a nice job here. They only turned the ball over six times, easily a season low. Michigan State doesn't force turnovers in general, but good on the Terps for securing the basketball. If they'd shot just a little better after doing so, they'd have won the game. Then again, they didn't.</p>
<h4>Rebounding</h4>
<p id="paragraph6"><b><b>Maryland: 28.2 ORB%</b><br><b>Michigan State: 33.3 ORB%</b><br>National average: 29.8 ORB%</b></p>
<p id="paragraph7">The Terps actually had 11 offensive rebounds to Michigan State's 10, but the percentage for Maryland was lower because it missed so many more shots. The Terps missed 36 shots from the field, while the Spartans missed 29.</p>
<h4>Foul shots</h4>
<p id="paragraph8"><b>Maryland: .389 FTA/FGA</b><br><b>Michigan State: .300 FTA/FGA</b><b><br>National average: 0.367 FTA/FGA</b></p>
<p>What a weirdly officiated game. Maryland couldn't <i>buy </i>a call in the first half, and Mark Turgeon took a technical foul as he berated one of the referees for not sending Rasheed Sulaimon to the foul line after multiple Spartans contacted him on a drive to the hoop. Then the officiating turned, and Maryland got 10 of the first 13 foul calls of the second half to go in its favor. Of course, then came the make-ups, and Maryland didn't get the foul shots<a href="http://www.testudotimes.com/2016/3/12/11212622/big-ten-tournament-2016-did-eron-harris-foul-melo-trimble-at-buzzer"> it could've used most</a>.</p>
https://www.testudotimes.com/2016/3/12/11212232/big-ten-tournament-2016-maryland-nebraska-final-score-stats-boxAlex Kirshner2016-03-12T19:31:05-05:002016-03-12T19:31:05-05:00Maryland pivots to NCAA Tournament
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<p>The Terps' confusing season took a weird turn on Saturday. Now, they're out of room for error.</p> <p><b>INDIANAPOLIS – </b>Melo Trimble kept his head up, but he looked dead ahead.</p>
<p>About a half-hour after Trimble capped a 2-of-15 shooting day with an excruciating missed lay-in attempt and a <a href="http://www.testudotimes.com/2016/3/12/11212622/big-ten-tournament-2016-did-eron-harris-foul-melo-trimble-at-buzzer">maybe-but-not-called foul </a>on a long heave to tie the game, Maryland's locker room was somber. Trimble followed a strong game on Friday with a hard slog on Saturday, and his Maryland basketball team <a href="http://www.testudotimes.com/2016/3/12/11212224/big-ten-tournament-results-maryland-michigan-state-final-score">lost by three points </a>to Michigan State. It was a fifth loss in eight games for Maryland, and Trimble knows what happens if there's even one more loss.</p>
<p>"We know we didn't get this one. We're not going to hang our head too down for Maryland," Trimble said. "There's a bigger thing we want to get, which is an NCAA Tournament."</p>
<p>The Terps are now 25-8. They've lost more games than anyone thought they would. Some will consider their season a failure if it ends anywhere shy of Houston, at the Final Four in April. But the Terps aren't being so declarative.</p>
<p>"To be honest with you, through the ebbs and flow of the season, you just kind of have to look at your last game," Rasheed Sulaimon said. "Sometimes you're going to play at your highest level. Sometimes you're not. We definitely had both throughout the whole season. Just looking at this game, I'm proud of everything we accomplished."</p>
<p>Maryland probably should be. The Terrapins lost by three points against a consensus Final Four contender and elite team, in a mostly green-clad arena after falling behind by 12 points in the first half. The Terps got more offensive rebounds than the rebounding-savvy Spartans, had fewer turnovers and would've won the game if any number of things had broken even a little bit differently. But they didn't, and the NCAA's selection committee doesn't much care for moral wins.</p>
<p>But Maryland says it's looking ahead to next week's NCAA Tournament with a positive eye. The team's players and coaches are unified on that front. Of course, teams say this no matter what their situation is – every No. 16 seed says it's got a chance to make noise, even though none ever has – but Maryland legitimately believes it, according to conversations with a couple of Terrapins when recorders weren't rolling. Maryland still has talent, and the Terps don't view themselves with the same cynical eye that watches them from the outside, including from press row.</p>
<p>"I think we are definitely where we have to be," Damonte Dodd said.</p>
<p>"We're very confident," Trimble said.</p>
<p>"The good thing about it: We still have another chance," Sulaimon said. "You've just gotta look at the bright side."</p>
<p>"There's no question, coaching staff, players, everybody involved in Maryland basketball feels really good," Mark Turgeon said. "Feels better than we did coming into this tournament. We wanted momentum. We wanted to beat Michigan State. We couldn't do it today. Maybe if we get them again in a couple weeks, we'll be good enough to beat them, but today we weren't. But we feel good about ourselves."</p>
<p>Turgeon allowed that Maryland has heard some of the negative sentiment written and spoken about it recently. If the Terps lose next weekend, before the Sweet 16, there will be an avalanche of it.</p>
<p>"When the expectations are so high and you're 25-8, you got 25 wins, and it's not good enough," Turgeon said, "sometimes, it puts young men in not a good place."</p>
<p>Defining success is a tricky thing. Defining failure is even trickier.</p>
<p>If Maryland falls on the Big Dance's opening weekend, though, it won't be complicated. The Terps know this, but they don't seem scared about it. Sulaimon said the team is "100 percent happy" about what it's accomplished so far. Where fans might see a waste of talent, Maryland sees an opportunity – a stone the Terps haven't had a chance to turn yet.</p>
<p>"I won't say our season is a success or a failure at this point," Sulaimon said. "We still have another tournament to go."</p>
https://www.testudotimes.com/2016/3/12/11212734/big-ten-tournament-2016-results-scores-maryland-michigan-stateAlex Kirshner2016-03-12T18:33:26-05:002016-03-12T18:33:26-05:00Big Ten Tournament rolls on, without Maryland
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<p>Here's the updated bracket.</p> <p>The Michigan State Spartans will take on the Purdue Boilermakers on Sunday afternoon to wrap up the Big Ten Tournament at Bankers Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. Maryland won't participate, as the Terps fell to the Spartans on Saturday evening in a conference semifinal. But the tournament rolls on, and it's still relevant to Maryland, which might stand to benefit a bit from one of these teams getting a stronger resume – although it's not clear which one.</p>
<h3>Rankings, records, numbers</h3>
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<p id="paragraph3"><b>No. 2 seed Michigan State</b> (26-7, 12-6 Big Ten)</p>
<p><b>No. 4 seed Purdue (26-7, 12-6 Big Ten)</b></p>
<h3>How to witness</h3>
<p id="paragraph5"><b>Date:</b> Sunday, March 13<br><b>Time: </b>3 p.m ET<br><b>Location:</b> Bankers Life Fieldhouse, Indianapolis</p>
<p id="paragraph6"><b>TV: </b>CBS Sports, Jim Nantz (Play-by-play), Bill Raftery (Analyst), Grant Hill (Sideline), Tracy Wolfson (Sideline)<br><b>Radio: </b>Terrapin Sports Radio Network - Johnny Holliday (Play-by-Play), Chris Knoche (Analyst), Walt Williams (Sideline); ESPN 980 AM, 105.7 FM; Compass Media Networks - Drew Bontadelli and Mike Wozniak<br><b>Streaming: </b>Use the CBS sports channel app</p>
<p>Here's an updated bracket. It's down to two:</p>
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https://www.testudotimes.com/maryland-terps-basketball/2016/3/12/11211892/how-to-watch-maryland-purdue-michigan-channel-game-time-stream-basketball-big-ten-tournamentMatt Ellentuck2016-03-12T17:53:40-05:002016-03-12T17:53:40-05:00Was Trimble fouled? It's close.<h3 class="link-title"><a rel="nofollow" href="https://twitter.com/TestudoDave/status/708784979262701570">Big Ten Tournament 2016: Did Eron Harris foul Melo Trimble at buzzer of Maryland's loss to Michigan&nbsp;State?</a></h3>
<div class="description"><p><p>Melo Trimble lined up nearly a full-court heave in a last-ditch effort to tie Maryland's game against Michigan State on Saturday. The Spartans' Eron Harris bumped Trimble as he let the ball go, but referees didn't call a foul. Harris' feet were moving, but his hands were straight up and Trimble clearly tried to draw the contact. What do you think? (Update: Melo was "<a href="https://twitter.com/RyanBaillargeon/status/708798164581556224">surprised</a>" he didn't get a call.)</p></p></div>
https://www.testudotimes.com/2016/3/12/11212622/big-ten-tournament-2016-did-eron-harris-foul-melo-trimble-at-buzzerAlex Kirshner2016-03-12T17:44:11-05:002016-03-12T17:44:11-05:00Maryland loses a heartbreaker
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<p>The Terps fall in heartbreaking fashion.</p> <p><b>INDIANAPOLIS – </b><span>The Maryland men's basketball team's Big Ten Tournament run is over, after Michigan State dealt the Terps a 64-61 loss on Saturday. Maryland mounted a methodical comeback from12 points down in the first half but couldn't cap it with a victory at Bankers Life Fieldhouse.</span></p>
<p>Melo Trimble's last-second lay-in attempt to win the game was turned back by a wall of Spartan defenders, and game officials didn't call Michigan State for a foul when Trimble was bodied on a last-second heave to tie the score. It was Maryland's most heartbreaking loss of the season.</p>
<p>The Terps are helpless now to change their seeding fate for this month's NCAA Tournament. They'll learn their draw on Sunday evening, with a No. 4 or 5 seed their most likely outcome.</p>
<p>Melo Trimble had 11 points on 2-of-15 shooting. Robert Carter Jr. led Maryland with 18 points, while Denzel Valentine had 18 points of his own on 4-of-12 shooting for the Spartans.</p>
<p>The game nearly got all the away from Maryland before halftime. The Terps trailed by 10 points when Mark Turgeon took a technical foul 16 minutes into the game. Valentine hit two free throws to put them down 12, and the Terps looked entirely disheveled. All half, they failed to create high-quality shots on offense, while the Spartans tore into them in the fast break and got a slew of second-chance points, either after offensive rebounds or fortunate bounces. Maryland stayed within eight points at the break solely on the strength of 6-of-11 three-point shooting.</p>
<p>But Maryland charged back after the break. The Terps wiped out their entire deficit over the first 10 minutes of the period, drawing even at 53 when Trimble hit his first field goal. The Terps did a lot of it at the foul line, getting calls they hadn't been getting when Turgeon lost his cool and got whistled in the first half. That set up a captivating race to the finish.</p>
<p>Here was Maryland's problem, though: That Trimble three-pointer at 10:26 was their last field goal until he scored a driving lay-up with 15 seconds remaining. The Terps had a 10-3 foul calls advantage midway through the half, but those gaps never last. Indeed, the officiating evened out, and Maryland's offense slowed down.</p>
<h4>Three things to know</h4>
<p><b>1. Nothing came easily for Melo Trimble. </b>The Spartans harassed the Terps' best player all night, sending two defenders to cover him on Maryland's frequent high picks for him and even firing an errant pass into his nose, leaving the hardwood sprinkled in one spot with Trimble's blood. The officiating crew didn't give Trimble much benefit of the doubt in the way of foul calls, and he finished with 11 points on 2-of-15 shooting. It probably wasn't the way he'd hoped to head into the Dance, but he gave Maryland a hearty run at the end of the game. The refereeing crew didn't give Trimble a chance he probably deserved to tie the game at the foul line, either.</p>
<p><b>2. Michigan State is going places. </b>The Spartans are tenacious on defense and cohesive on offense – and they have Denzel Valentine, who's as good as it gets. Michigan State was really, uncharacteristically bad in the second half, and it still took Maryland's absolute best effort down the stretch to even get close in an ugly game.</p>
<p><b>3. It was a tale of two halves for Maryland. </b>The Terps were brutal in the first half and would've been out of the game if contested three-pointers hadn't kept falling. But they showed great pluck in the second half, and mounting a late charge against a Tom Izzo team in March – basically in a road game – is nothing to sneeze at.</p>
https://www.testudotimes.com/2016/3/12/11212224/big-ten-tournament-results-maryland-michigan-state-final-scoreAlex Kirshner2016-03-12T13:54:41-05:002016-03-12T13:54:41-05:00GameThread: Maryland vs. Michigan State
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<p>The Terps and Spartans vie for a spot in the conference championship game.</p> <p>The Maryland men's basketball team has struggled lately, losing four of seven games and often looking iffy even in the games it has won. But the narrative surrounding Maryland could turn on its head with a win against the Big Ten's best team on Saturday, when the Terps <a href="http://www.testudotimes.com/maryland-terps-basketball/2016/3/11/11184116/big-ten-tournament-game-time-tv-channel-schedule-terps-michigan-state-spartans">play Michigan State in a Big Ten Tournament semifinal</a> in Indianapolis. The winner moves to a championship game on Sunday.</p>
<p>The Terps scored 97 points in a <a href="http://www.testudotimes.com/maryland-terps-basketball/2016/3/11/11202920/big-ten-tournament-results-maryland-nebraska-final-score">win against Nebraska</a> on Friday night, the highest output in the history of the conference tournament. Michigan State, for its part, cruised by Ohio State in the game immediately before that at Bankers Life Fieldhouse. Both teams had double byes; Michigan State is the No. 2 seed and Maryland the No. 3 seed.</p>
<p>This will be the second bout of the year between the Terps and Spartans. Michigan State won by nine points in East Lansing back in January, behind strong efforts from stars Denzel Valentine and Bryn Forbes.</p>
<p>Matt Ellentuck and I will have coverage from the arena all day. Thanks for reading along, and enjoy the game.</p>
https://www.testudotimes.com/2016/3/12/11211900/gamethread-maryland-vs-michigan-state-at-the-big-ten-tournamentAlex Kirshner