It's been a longer stay in Minnesota for Maryland men's basketball than the team likely bargained for. As of Thursday morning, the No. 9 Terrapins, due to issues with the team plane, were still stuck in Minneapolis in wake of the team's 74-73 Wednesday night road victory over the Golden Gophers.

Some will consider the timing of the travel delay -- Maryland isn't expected to get off the ground until at least Thursday afternoon -- rather ironic too. During the win over Minnesota on Wednesday, Maryland head coach Mark Turgeon made it clear during an on-court interview with the Big Ten Network that he wasn't exactly thrilled about the contest's 8 p.m. local tip-off time. Prior to the plane issues, the Terrapins had planned to fly home immediately after the contest rather than spend the night in Minnesota.

"My goal is to be in my driveway by 4:30 in the morning," Turgeon said during his on-court interview with BTN. "We played a nine o'clock Eastern [time zone] game at Minnesota on a Wednesday. It makes no sense."

Karma's having a good laugh at Mark Turgeon's complaint about the late start probably getting him home at 4:30 a.m. The team is still stuck in Minnesota due to plane issues and won't leave until hopefully this afternoon, I'm told. — Jeff Ermann (@Jeff_Ermann) February 27, 2020

In the time between that TV interview and his postgame media session, however, he apparently had rethought his comments. By the time the game ended, Turgeon had already been made aware, too, that the team's plane was having issues and would not depart on time.

"I want to apologize to the Big Ten," Turgeon said postgame. "I made a comment about, 'I just want to be in my driveway by 4:30. We shouldn't have played this game.' Apologize to the Big Ten. Whatever you throw at us, I love being in the Big Ten, it's a great league.

"All the leadership. So I apologize for that. We'll get home eventually. We've got plane problems. So me popping off probably caused the plane problems. So we'll get home sometime. Sorry."

As for the game itself, it was fitting that Maryland basketball all but locked up its first regular-season Big Ten title with a miraculous comeback.

The Terps trailed by as many as 19 points Wednesday night at Minnesota and by 14 points win nine minutes. But as they've done time and again this season, they never relented and took over in crunch time, ending on a 10-1 run capped by Darryl Morsell's deep 3-pointer with 1.9 seconds left.

"I work real hard on shooting the ball and I just believed in myself." Morsell said. "My teammates believed in me. Anthony [Cowan] came down, he didn't feel it, he kicked to Aaron. Aaron [Wiggins[ didn't feel it, he kicked to me. I was open. The clock was winding down and I practice shooting all the time. So I just believed and it went in by the grace of God."

A 12 percent 3-point shooter as a freshman, Morsell's presence on the court sometimes was akin to playing 4-on-5 offensively for the Terps two years ago. But he's worked relentlessly on his shot and is hitting 34.2 percent from deep this season, none of them bigger than the one he stunned Minnesota with on Wednesday night.