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Just when you are ready to go full bore into football season, the ACC wants to remind everyone that basketball is still lurking in the background.  The Terps open the season November 8th against Seattle.  They are also a part of the Coaches VS. Cancer Tournament this year.  They open up the ACC slate on [...]

Tonight at 6:00 Gary Williams will be part of Andy Katz College Basketball Coaches show.  I don’t know anything about the show other than I saw Gary’s name on the bottom line while I was watching the Phillies and Mets last night.  Also featured will be John Thompson III, and Jamie Dixon.  The show will [...]

With ACC Media Day going on, it is time to get moving on taking a look the Maryland Football team.  I am going to start with the special teams for a couple of reasons.  One, they are the unit with the most locked in players, and secondly, they are one of the smaller units, and [...]

When it comes to assistant coaches in basketball, you never really know the importance.  Sure they help in the day to day things in practice, but when it comes down to a player picking a school, does the assistant really help?  Well, if they do, Maryland might be in for some good things coming out [...]

Former Terp Greivis Vasquez played in his first Summer League game last night, and helped the Memphis Grizzlies to a 89-85 win over the Atlanta Hawks.  In his first game he played 17 minutes scoring 2 points on 1-3 shooting (0-2 from 3).  He did contribute 3 boards and 4 assist to go along with [...]

With the NBA draft coming on Thursday night, I thought it would be a good idea to take a look around and see where Greivis Vasquez is projected to go.  All summer long he looked to be a long shot for the first round, and most mock drafts had him pegged for the middle to [...]

Wow, I can’t believe this is all happening.  I had heard the rumors and watched as they heated up day after day and now it looks like the College Football world (and all of college sports) is changing right before our very eyes.  Nebraska is going to the Big 10, Colorado is going to the [...]

It looks as if the search for the third assistant coach on the Maryland Basketball staff is over.  Several Reports state Bino Ranson has stepped down from his position at Xavier and will be hired by Maryland today.  His coaching resume also has time at Marist and James Madison.  One note of particular interest is [...]

According to Matt Bracken at the Sun, the Terps have added the final piece to the incoming freshman class, by signing 6-10 Juco Center, Berend Weijs.  He will have two years of eligibility remaining after and will be available to play immediately. There have been some rumblings around the message boards about a big on [...]

This time of the college sports season is tough to come up with news worthy post, but there is one topic floating around out there that won’t go away.  Talk of Maryland to the Big 10(11) when they expand, which seems very likely, won’t go away, and here Andy Katz mentions Maryland.  It has been [...]