With the win and No. 12 Wisconsin’s loss to Penn State on Saturday, Maryland guaranteed a top three finish in the Big Ten and a double bye in next week’s conference tournament in Indianapolis. The Terrapins (24-7 overall, 14-6 Big Ten) will have six days off before playing Friday night as the second or third seed in the tournament based on the result of Sunday’s game between No. 17 Michigan and No. 8 Michigan State.
“We have not been good coming off byes … I was going to go have a beer. Now I’m going to switch to whiskey,” Willard joked. “So I think, you know, we’re going to take, technically, two days off, but it won’t be a full two days. It’ll be like a day and a half.”