Scott’s Leaner Helps Maryland Edge No. 20 Florida 70-68

NEW YORK (AP) — Donta Scott scored connected a leaning changeable successful the station with 16.8 seconds left, No. 20 Florida missed its final-play 3-pointer and Maryland bushed the Gators 70-68 connected Sunday nighttime successful the Basketball Hall of Fame Invitational.

Eric Ayala and Fatts Russell each scored 19 points for the Terrapins (6-4), who changeable 49% and deed 8 of 13 3-pointers to drawback a three-game skid. It besides marked Maryland’s archetypal triumph successful 2 tries nether interim manager Danny Manning, who took implicit Dec. 3 aft the schoolhouse announced Mark Turgeon had stepped down successful what it described arsenic a communal decision.

Maryland led by arsenic galore arsenic 7 with 6 1/2 minutes near earlier a tense finish, with Florida’s Tyree Appleby going for the triumph connected a stepback 3-point effort implicit a contesting Xavier Green. But the changeable was long, with the shot hitting the backmost robust arsenic the horn sounded.

Appleby scored 15 points connected 5 3-pointers, including 1 against Russell with 1:14 near that pushed the Gators (7-3) to a 66-65 lead. Florida besides got a tying layup from Anthony Duruji with 43.5 seconds left, mounting up Scott’s pugnacious changeable against Myreon Jones successful the station for the win.