The Wildcats led by 40-28 at halftime, but no other players stepped up enough in the second half to stop Maryland from coming back.
Villanova's Jhamir Brickus dribbles past Maryland's Ja'Kobi Gillespie during Sunday's game in Newark, N.J.NEWARK, N.J. — Eric Dixon had done everything he possibly could to will Villanova to its first win of the season over a team that matters, until he missed the game’s last shot from the corner.
Twenty-two of Dixon’s points came in a first half that was surely the Wildcats’ best of the season, delivering a 40-28 lead at intermission. Maryland coach Kevin Willard wasn’t surprised. He faced Dixon for years at Seton Hall before taking this job two seasons ago, and now has his own young team to shepherd — at a program that has fallen from its own past heights.
On cue, Maryland came back to take a 57-55 lead with 8 minutes, 46 seconds to go in the second half, making 12 of its first 19 field goal attempts of the period. Villanova had held 6-foot-10 freshman center Derik Queen to four points in the first half, but he hit his first five shots of the second and finished with 22 points.
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