pretty simply outplayed, out hustled and out coached. the good thing is there is another game monday night. forget about this one. no need to to pick out this player or that player. it’s over. on to the next game.

this is the 3rd time this season md has crippled under the hype of potentially being a top 25 team. Maui we didnt show, at clemson and today they just didnt play well at all. Should have gotten blown out at clemson aside from an awful performance from the tigers. A team with 3 senior starters shouldnt have this much trouble dealing with a little hype on the road.

This was a straight up butt kicking, but I still think the Terps will win the rematch in College Park. Today was Duke’s day – airballs landed in their laps for easy put backs, some stiff did his best Bill Walton impression, and Maryland missed every single shot outside of 5 feet. Not saying the Dookies didn’t deserve to win, but you have to imagine that UMD will catch a few breaks at the Comcastle.

Plus they won’t have to contend with 9,000 ugly chicks and nerdy dudes screaming at them.

There is no reason Zubick(sp?) should of had anywhere near as many offensive boards as he had. Gary and crew needs to work on the big guys. Get them to put there wide bodies in between the rim and they’re man. I saw several times there were 3 Terps standing near the basket and Zubick was in front of them. That can’t happen!!! I think almost all his points came on put backs. Come on Gary get these bigs workin harder on the glass. We need to make a statement against UVA now!!!

                                      3 Main reasons for the loss
1.) I don’t think you mentioned this because you are trying to avoid excuses (I assume; or you mentioned it a couple of times last week and want to avoid repetition) but the time off was a huge negative and yet broadcasters rarely discussed it. Our poor shooting percentage, like you brought up, was not really due to Duke’s defense. The team as a whole was rusty and nothing else but the 6 days off can account for that.

2.) Brian Zoubek moves into the starting spot with significant playing time. When has this ever been the case before? I don’t know if Gary anticipated such a move either. Zoubek’s experience (years not necessarily in playing time) and his size were too much for us and for Jordan Williams particularly.

3.) Add to #2 the fact that Lance Thomas DID play after all (Belichek style). They are loaded in the post. Our only hope to counter them going in was guard play.

I still think # 1 is the major reason for the wide margin of victory. At least MD could have made a game of it otherwise. I would have preferred the regular schedule—even if only 1, 000 fans made it there. You could see the difference in intensity between the teams. Duke played on Wed. and had “warmed up” legs under them but MD didn’t.

I hope Wake loses…

I hated and still hate Acc expansion. We should get another chance against Wake at home or a chance to beat UNC Boston College Miami again or Va Tech at home. The uneven Acc schedule needs to go. Take away some out of conference games if necessary.

I won’t even go into detail about how the addition of Miami BC and Vatech cost MD the ncaa tournament those years, but our recent inability to excel in the postseason just happens to coincide with the expansion.

When are we going to see more of Tucker. He is one of the few guys on this team that can but the ball in the hole. Some games he only gets 10-11 mins. How do you get in to the flow of the game with 5 mins a half. Not sure why Gary pulls him sometimes. Hear he does not practice well, there have been a lot of good players that never practiced well. I think if he played 20-24 mins per game he would avg around 12 per game. Wouldn’t it be great if our 6th man could give you 12 points per game? It would make us that much tougher to be beat. More Tucker, Gary … PLEASE!!!!!!!

 I agree he missed some wide open 3’s, but then so did everyone else. I think he would shoot better with more playing time… I have seen games where he has played 7-8 minutes in the 1st half and 3-4 in the 2nd half, when I don’t feel he played badly or did anything wrong in the 1st half. I think players need to know their roles, you cant play 6 mins one game 17 the next then back to 7 mins. I always thought Gary was to quick to pull his subs when they make a mistake. It is like they are almost afraid to error, because they know they will get pulled while a starter knows they are getting their mins. Look Vasquez, has had 8 or 9 turn overs and still played 35 mins. Believe me, I know we can’t win with out him, but sometimes he should be sat down for more than a min or two.