Illinois (11-3, 3-1 Big Ten) managed to hold off Washington (10-5, 1-3) by a score of 81-77 on Sunday in Seattle, but it only just survived a fierce comeback as the surging Huskies simply ran out of clock to work with.

Ja’Kobi Gillespie and Derik Queen, Maryland men’s basketball’s leading scorers who lifted the Terps to an 11-2 record, couldn’t buy a bucket against Washington on Thursday. But the duo was more than just sluggish offensively.

Just around the time No. 22 Illinois might have begun believing it had everything figured out, an unranked and unheralded opponent welcomed the Illini into their home and showed them just how much more there was to learn.

The first — and only — trip to the West Coast for Maryland men’s basketball got off to a humbling start. The Terps failed to overcome one of their worst first-half showings of the season and didn’t put up much of a fight in the second half in a 75-69 loss to Washington on Thursday night at Alaska Airlines Arena in Seattle.

The Washington Huskies earned a 75-69 victory over the Maryland Terrapins on Thursday night, their first in the Big Ten. The win sent a message that the Huskies have wh

Maryland men’s basketball opened its West Coast road trip Thursday looking to get the ball rolling in conference play against Washington, which had lost its first two Big Ten games by an average of 17.