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Personally, after yesterday, I don’t think the Terps belong.  It pains me to say it, but I truly believe it.  If you can’t beat a really bad UVA team when they are there for the pickings, you don’t belong.  We have seen it before, so I can honestly say I am not surprised they lost, but [...]

Well I guess I drew the short straw tonight.  Actually make that the second shortest straw.  My wife is painting the bathroom while I’m sitting here at the computer, so I guess things can alway be worse.  But it is hard to imagine feeling much worse than I do now.  Tonight in all honesty we [...]

Sure the “Big Dance” hasn’t stated yet, in fact the only team to officially be in is Cornell.  That being said, if you think about it, today’s game is an elimination game of sorts for the Terps.  Sure the season won’t officially be over, but they surely can’t expect to get in if they lose [...]

The Lady Terps used a 21-9 run to finish the game and rally back from a 12 point second half defecit.  For most of the game Toliver and Coleman struggled, but they hit big shots and more importantly when Wake was starting to fade down the stretch made huge defensive plays.  It was not a [...]

Kristi Toliver was named ACC Women’s Player of the Year today.  She was second in scoring at 18.1 points per game, and led the conference in assists with 5.1 per game.   She was also second in 3 point FG% and was top 5 in free throw percentage.  Not only did she compile the numbers, but [...]

First, since this is still basketball season, Jerome Burney is out for the season.  He has a broken sesmasoid bone in his right foot according to the Washington Times’ Patrick Stevens.  Not a huge loss, but it is nice to have a big body back there, if for nothing else his 5 fouls.  I think [...]

There are literally a million reasons I’m glad I don’t play for the Maryland Men’s Basketball team (insert your own intermural basketball joke here, but I wasn’t on the team that needed a buzzer beater to beat a team of exchange students who only had 4 players!).  But I am mostly glad I’m not on [...]

In a theme that is becoming all to familiar, the Terps weren’t able to hold off the Demon Deacons, despite a late lead.  This game was filled with emotion.  It was Dave Neal’s senior night, it was (hopefully) the last game in Comcast this year, and there was A LOT on the line.  Another win [...]

With our unbalanced ACC schedule, we are finally getting a look at the Deacs.  At one point they were number one in the country, but currently they are ranked #10.  More on the hoops team later, but lets get to the history and all the fun facts we have been doing for the other schools. [...]

The final score doesn’t represent how close this game was. With less than 30 seconds left the Terps only held a four point lead. However they ran the shot clock down and Vasquez sank another one of his many “floaters” on the night. He finished with 33 points (3 of which came as he launched [...]