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December 12, 2021 astatine 7:46 pm
NEW YORK (AP) — Donta Scott scored connected a leaning changeable successful the station with 16.8 seconds left, No. 20 Florida missed its final-play 3-pointer and Maryland bushed the Gators 70-68 connected Sunday nighttime successful the Basketball Hall of Fame Invitational.
Eric Ayala and Fatts Russell each scored 19 points for the Terrapins (6-4), who changeable 49% and deed 8 of 13 3-pointers to drawback a three-game skid. It besides marked Maryland’s archetypal triumph successful 2 tries nether interim manager Danny Manning, who took implicit Dec. 3 aft the schoolhouse announced Mark Turgeon had stepped down successful what it described arsenic a communal decision.
Maryland led by arsenic galore arsenic 7 with 6 1/2 minutes near earlier a tense finish, with Florida’s Tyree Appleby going for the triumph connected a stepback 3-point effort implicit a contesting Xavier Green. But the changeable was long, with the shot hitting the backmost robust arsenic the horn sounded.
Appleby scored 15 points connected 5 3-pointers, including 1 against Russell with 1:14 near that pushed the Gators (7-3) to a 66-65 lead. Florida besides got a tying layup from Anthony Duruji with 43.5 seconds left, mounting up Scott’s pugnacious changeable against Myreon Jones successful the station for the win.
Florida changeable conscionable 38% but scored 20 points disconnected 15 Maryland turnovers. The Gators besides got 15 points from Phlandrous Fleming Jr.
BIG PICTURE
Florida: The Gators had a jarring commencement to the week, losing astatine location to antecedently winless Texas Southern by 15. They rebounded with an casual location triumph Wednesday against North Florida, though Florida was apt headed retired of Monday’s caller AP Top 25 canvass earlier this adjacent loss.
Maryland: The Terrapins were trying to debar their archetypal four-game skid since the 2004-05 season. The schoolhouse said that’s the lone 1 of that magnitude dating to the 1993-94 season.
UP NEXT
Florida: The Gators look South Florida connected Saturday successful the Orange Bowl Classic successful Sunrise, Fla.
Maryland: The Terrapins person an extended interruption and don’t play again until hosting Loyola Maryland connected Dec. 28.
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