The Washington Huskies are really driving off a cliff to end this season. First, losing to Penn State and now to Maryland. Those two teams alone are sitting at the bottom of the Big Ten for a reason, and yet the Huskies made them look like tournament teams. It's extremely disappointing and tough to watch. The injuries may be the excuse, but the biggest reason Washington lost to Maryland was rebounding.
The Huskies lost to Maryland by only four points, 64-60, and yet were outrebounded a whopping 36-23. That almost reads like a typo. The Terrapins had 13 more rebounds than Washington. To make matters worse, Maryland had 14 offensive rebounds to Washington's four.
Maryland outplayed Washington on the offensive glass and it led to a Big Ten loss for UW
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The Terps had 10 more chances to generate points on the offensive end than Washington did. That's not good and rather embarrassing. Not one player for the Huskies had more than five rebounds (Frank Kepnang). Hannes Steinbach is leading the Big Ten in double-doubles, and yet he only had three.
The biggest reason Maryland had such an advantage was mainly due to Solomon Washington, who alone had 14 rebounds, with six of them being offensive. However, every player who got more than seven minutes for the Terps had at least one.
The only other stat you could even point to as a deciding factor for the game besides rebounding is 3-point shooting percentage. Washington only made five threes for the 22 they shot (23%) while Maryland went 10-23 (43%).
At the end of the day, the stats don't matter, but the wins do. The best teams decide to play their best basketball at the end of the season, but Washington has decided to play their worst, and it's become a consistent problem.
The buyout and injuries will continue to keep Danny Sprinkle employed, but he doesn't currently deserve it and has to find a way to right the ship, even if it already sunk this season.