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Before Sunday, Diggy Coit had shown flashes of a scoring ability that rival anyone in the country. His 41-point explosion against Mount St. Mary’s in November was tied for the third-most points in a game in Maryland men’s basketball history.
But even to that standard, Coit’s showing Sunday afternoon against Penn State was a completely new gear.
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The graduate guard’s 43 points is tied for the second-most in a game in program history. Coit is the second player in program history with multiple 40-point games as a Terp. The other was Gene Shue, who did so in 1953. Shue also invented the spin move.
It wasn’t due to extreme shot volume, either — Coit was 14-of-23 from the field and 9-of-15 from deep.
That effort was more than enough to guide the Terps to a dominating 96-73 win at Xfinity Center. It’s their first Big Ten win of the season, and only their third win since Thanksgiving.
It took an all-out defensive effort from the Nittany Lions to prevent Coit from breaking the record (44). After stellar back-to-back 3-pointers with 5:22 and 4:39 to go, they threw the kitchen sink at Coit — complete with full-court presses, double teams and half-court traps despite being down as much as 24 points.
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Coit only got two attempts to break the record. Both were long-range and well-contested. They would have been outrageous attempts for anyone without multiple 40-point games on the season.
He’s also the only Division I player in the country with multiple 40-point games this season.
Coit — generously listed as 5-foot-11, attending his fourth school in five years — has become a Maryland folk hero even amid one of the program’s worst seasons in decades.
The former junior college, Northern Illinois and Kansas product showed why head coach Buzz Williams pursued him in the transfer portal so aggressively. Coit was absolutely untouchable in the first half.
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