Maryland men’s basketball player questions team’s effort | TAKEAWAYS

Buzz Williams thankfully didn’t take the bait.

During his postgame news conference after Thursday night’s 82-62 setback to Ohio State at Xfinity Center, the Maryland men’s basketball coach was asked by a reporter to identify some areas of progress. That would seem to be a difficult question to answer when the Terps (8-14, 1-10 Big Ten) have dropped four games in a row and are on the cusp of cementing a sub-.500 record in the league with nine more games remaining on the schedule.

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So Williams offered a mea culpa of sorts while affirming his players’ perseverance in what has become a trying season.

“I completely, 1,000% understand the expectations of the program, of all programs at this level — particularly the University of Maryland in regards to the results,” he said. “And so I’ve got to continue to find ways to do better. I think you have to be careful when you’re 1-10 that anything you say comes across as an excuse. I never want to justify losing in any sort of way. But I am thankful — and I tell them this and what I tell them, I tell you guys — [for] the competitive spirit that they played with, our huddles, hustling after one another. We didn’t get every 50-50 ball tonight, but we were trying better. We had more unclean rebounds tonight than we’ve had in a while. And so I appreciate the resilience and the togetherness amidst all the volatility of things that we can’t control and things that we can’t, that they’ve continued to hang in there.”

Here are three developments from Thursday’s game.

Maryland’s problems began at a fundamental level

Turnovers once again waylaid the Terps. But it was the nature of some of those gaffes that were disturbing.

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On several occasions, players had trouble catching passes from teammates or simply keeping the ball in their possession. That led to comical moments of players dribbling the ball off their own ankles and feet or the Buckeyes simply grabbing gifted loose balls and going…

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