Maryland and Northwestern provide wildly entertaining 30 seconds

No. 4 Maryland went on the road to Northwestern on Saturday and had little trouble beating a suddenly very competitve team in Evanston 72-59, but if all you saw from the game was the sequence from the tweet below, you would have thought it was a much more competitive game.

It's hard to imagine 30 seconds of basketball in which only two points are scored being more enjoyable than this.

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In case you weren't counting, the teams went end-to-end five times there with five missed shots, three blocks, a steal and Northwestern guard Bryant McIntosh seemingly scoring on accident on what appeared to be a lob toward the rim for a teammate.

Maryland jumped to a 20-point lead in the first half and staved off the Huskies in the second half to improve to 13-1 and 2-0 in the Big Ten. Northwestern is now 13-2 and 1-1 in conference play and it wouldn't be a surprise this season to see the Wildcats beat some longtime rivals who have beat up on them over the years.

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