Yahoo Sports’ Jason Fitz and former Big 12 player of the year Marcus Morris Sr. react to the Terrapins 72-71 victory over the Rams in the second round of the 2025 NCAA Tournament.

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The clock struck midnight and the glass slipper did not fit for Colorado State as they will not be a Cinderella in this tournament.

Maryland gets the 7271 epic win.

Marcus Morris Senior.

I’m Jason Fitz and I’m telling you, Derek Queen finally gave us our first, I think, real one shining moment in this, uh, in this game, Marcus, with the way he won it.

Hey man, down the stretch, that was a big time shot by Derek Queen off the 1 ft, feeding off the glass.

Oh man, I think he looked like a big boogie cousins, man, my mistake.

Uh, listen, but I take my hat off to Julian Reesa as well.

He made big free throws down the stretch of two bigs, came and stepped up and gave him big baskets.

Hey, this was a firework game.

Colorado came to play.

They kept it close and, you know, Maryland got it done.

I mean, Colorado State gave Maryland everything they can handle.

In fact, it was crazy.

They shot what I thought was gonna be in the game winning 3 with about 3 seconds left, right?

Like that shows you how tight this game was.

It definitely was tight.

Take your hat off of Nick Clifford.

He played really well.

NBA prospect, you know, he went back to Colorado State and didn’t go on the transfer portal.

That was a really, really big win by Maryland, the freshman, they gave it to the freshman at the end of the game and he delivered.

Shout out to Maryland, man.

That was a big win.

Yeah, I love seeing a freshman from Maryland get the chance to win for Maryland.

The crab 5 advances, and for only the 2nd time in the last 6 years, we will not have a seed 12 or lower in the Sweet 16.