Monday Afternoon Links

by Ben Broman on Mar 9, 2009 4:09 PM EDT

Busy day for me, slow day for Terps sports.

East Coast Bias took a look at Maryland's past few years, and found a startlingly similar trend - fall apart, come back together to get to the bubble, fall apart again.
Scout isn't giving much love to the Terps football team - they have them finishing 11th in the ACC. They might not be great next year, but 11th? I was considering something closer to 7th at worst.
On the Bracketology front, for those of you that still have some hope, Joe Lunardi has Maryland in the "Next Four Out" (those titles never made sense to me. Wouldn't the best teams that didn't make it be the "Last" out instead of the "First"?). Still a chance, but most of this is just guesswork anyway. No one knows how the committee will respond. He still has Creighton above Maryland, which is just ridiculous - the Jays just lost to Illinois State by 20+ points.
Our beloved Eric Prisbell is also working on Bracketology - no, Maryland isn't in his 65 either.
Missed some Lance Stephenson news a few days ago - he and James Padgett led Lincoln to the city semis the other day. He dropped 28 and 12, with St. John's coach Norm Roberts on hand. Padgett had 13 and 12. Lance's quote? "No one can stop me down low." That's a strange strategy for a 6-5 guard (there's no way he's only 6-5, though - he looks a legit 6-8).

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Struggle, get to the bubble, fall apart again

except for 2 years ago when we blew past the bubble right into a 4 seed in the ncaa’s…god you are so negative!

We haven’t “fell apart” this year either. Hell, we are still on the bubble. Last I checked the consensus was we are two wins away from the ncaa tourney. So why not save post-mortum commentary till our bubble actually bursts.

by tiimbitz4786 on Mar 10, 2009 3:37 AM EDT reply actions

I still believe we have a chance

But the trend is still worth posting. The one year is an outlier compared to the others; it bucks the trend, but that doesn’t mean the trend is gone. And find where I said this year is already there, please. It’s certainly headed there, especially because two wins is a long way away (yeah, I actually had a positivity post a few days ago where I said it was only two wins away, but you apparently weren’t there for that), but never did I write that this year was there. Regardless, it was an interesting piece of blogging that deserved to be read. If you’re going to attack someone, why not the author of the OP? I’m paraphrasing his words.

by Ben Broman on Mar 10, 2009 3:44 PM EDT up reply actions

By putting that drivel up...

You give credence to the idea that somehow that kind of shallow analysis is right, even if you don’t imply it (eric prisbell and you can have a chat about obvious implications)…

It’s interesting though that you would call our acc tourny win, or our great finish to a 2nd round in the ncaa’s outliers though. I mean hell that’s 2 out of the last 4 years that we’ve not done exactly what that link purports…If 50 percent of the data can be dismissed as an outlier…so be it

GO TERPS…IGNORE THE NEGATIVITY

by tiimbitz4786 on Mar 10, 2009 7:41 PM EDT reply actions