Scoring wasn’t a problem for most of Maryland men’s basketball’s four-point loss at No. 9 Oregon on Sunday.

The Terps led by two points with just under five minutes remaining after a Ja’Kobi Gillespie 3-pointer. But they only made one shot from the floor after that — a tip-in in the waning seconds after the game was already decided.

Maryland fell to Oregon, 83-79, in Eugene. It capped off a winless West Coast trip for the Terps (11-4, 1-3 Big Ten), who lost on Thursday to a Washington team projected to finish near the bottom of the conference.

“I thought offensively, we got some good rhythm. We have to just get back, spend three days of good practice back in College Park and get our defense back to where it needs to be,” coach Kevin Willard said.

A top-10 road loss — even with Oregon’s ranking surely to dip because of its 32-point home loss to No. 22 Illinois on Thursday — isn’t the most harmful defeat for the Terps’ resume.

But it’s the type of game that Maryland will need to win eventually.

Maryland entered conference-only without any “bad” losses, but also without a top win. The former changed and the latter didn’t in the Terps’ West Coast trip.

Now, Kevin Willard’s team returns to College Park with ground to make up in the Big Ten and a tough opponent on deck in No. 15 UCLA.

Rodney Rice and Selton Miguel each nailed 3-pointers in the first 33 seconds to match Maryland’s total from beyond the arc in Thursday’s loss. Both offenses got off to fast starts, as each shot above 60 percent in the first four minutes.

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The up-and-down nature is where Maryland has been most comfortable this season, and Willard said he was happy with his team’s increased pace on Sunday.

The Terps entered the game with the 13th-shortest average possession length in the country, according to KenPom. It’s a stark contrast from the grind-to-halt style Maryland fans grew accustomed to in the past decade.

The Terps went on a run after the first media timeout, grabbing a 13-point lead midway through the half, but the Ducks answered. Sophomore guard Jackson Shelstad scored eight straight Oregon points as part of a 13-2 run that cut Maryland’s lead to two.

Neither team made more than two unanswered baskets the rest of the period. The Terps, who never trailed in the first half, entered the break with a 45-42 lead. Rice and Miguel led the Terps with 10 and nine points respectively, while Shelstad scored a game-high 14 points on 5-for-5 shooting.

It was a similar spot to where Maryland was in its previous three losses — the Terps led by three, four and five points in those contests.

Losing a game after leading at halftime isn’t the only concerning trend that continued on Sunday. The Terps dropped to 6-20 in true road games under Willard and 8-20 in games decided by six or fewer points.

Maryland scored the first two points of the second half before Oregon scored the next 14.

“Going [into] the second half, we just need a little bit more energy to kind of continue what we do to start the game,” Willard said. “The start of second halves have been absolutely brutal, and we’ve just got to do a better job with those.”

The Terps chipped into their nine-point deficit in large part thanks to Rice, who scored nine points in three minutes, including a four-point play.

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It was a bounce-back performance for Rice. The sophomore went 2-for-14 from three and averaged eight points in Maryland’s last three contests, but scored 19 on Sunday.

Rice did most of the scoring before baskets from freshman center Derik Queen and junior guard Ja’Kobi Gillespie gave the Terps the lead with eight minutes to go.

“Rodney got his rhythm back and Derik played much more aggressive [than Thursday], which I liked,” Willard said.

Queen and Gillespie struggled mightily in the Terps’ loss to Washington after entering the game as their top two scorers. They combined for five points on 1-for-13 shooting against the Huskies and finished Sunday with 17 and 16 points, respectively.

The duo also missed timely shots down the stretch. Queen tried calling a timeout with 14 seconds left when Maryland was out of them, sending Oregon to the free-throw line and putting the Terps down six.

Maryland’s two best wins, against Ohio State and Villanova, are near the cutoff line between Quad 1 and Quad 2 games. The Terps’ lack of a marquee win in nonconference play made beating opponents like Oregon more important.

Instead, they’ll go back to College Park with little room for error.