Hoosiers Roll Maryland Behind Big Second Half

Wednesday, January 7

College Park, Md.

6:30 PM

Indiana University

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Maryland

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1/7/2026 8:30:00 PM | Men's Basketball

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COLLEGE PARK, Md. - Once Lamar Wilkerson is rolling, it's tough to stop him.

Wilkerson scored 18 of his 24 points in the second half to help the Hoosiers take advantage of an offensive brownout from Maryland in an 84-66 over the Terrapins in College Park. Wilkerson connected on 9-of-17 shots overall to spark Indiana, which picked up its third Big Ten win of the year.

Wilkerson led four Hoosiers who scored in double figures, including forward Reed Bailey, who scored 15 points off the bench while grabbing six rebounds and handing out a pair of assists. The 18-point win for the Hoosiers is the largest margin of victory at Maryland in program history.

Wilkerson's big second half helped rescue an Indiana squad that was wobbling a bit after halftime. Leading by five at the break, IU stretched that lead to eight on a 3-point jumper from guard Conor Enright, but a 7-0 run by Maryland sliced the lead to one at 39-38. Indiana's lead was still at just three with 17:03 to play when Wilkerson got rolling.

He first scored on a driving layup to stop IU's bleeding, then he knocked down a 3-pointer off a pass from forward Trent Sisley to rebuild the lead to eight. He was fouled on the play and converted the four-point play from the line. After a missed Maryland shot, guard Tayton Conerway found Wilkerson beyond the arc, and Wilkerson knocked down a rainbow to push the lead to 52-40.

Wilkerson scored IU's next seven points to boot, and when the dust settled, IU was up 15 at 59-44 with 12:09 to play, giving the Hoosiers a comfortable lead that Maryland never challenged.

Enright finished with 16 points on 5-of-7 shooting, and Conerway scored 19 points on 6-of-12 shooting to go with eight rebounds and four assists in the win.

Defense—and more than a little poor shooting—hampered both teams in the first half. Maryland jumped out to an early five-point lead behind a pair of buckets in the paint from Elijah Saunders, then Darius Adams capitalized on a turnover to score a layup and put the Terps up 8-3. Maryland went up 16-11 on a driving bucket off an offensive rebound by Andre Mills with 11:06 left in the half then the Hoosiers started to make a push.

Conerway started things off with a pair of free throws, then Wilkerson scored on a layup off a Terps turnover to pull IU within one. Another turnover from Maryland's Isaiah Watts led to a Wilkerson breakout, and he converted a pair of free throws to give Indiana the lead. IU continued its march to the free-throw line with freebies from Conerway and Bailey to give the Hoosiers a 23-16 edge with 6:48 left before halftime.

An 11-4 run by the Terps pulled them within one at 27-26, but IU went on a 7-0 run when a pair of Bailey free throws sandwiched a three from Conerway and a Conerway layup with 1:43 left before the break.

Indiana took a 36-31 lead into the locker room despite going just 2-of-12 from 3-point range and shooting 9-of-26 overall. The Hoosiers, however, converted all 16 of their first-half free throws. Maryland, meanwhile, turned the ball over seven times in the first 20 minutes.