Maryland-Virginia Game Postponed

by Ben Broman on Feb 9, 2010 12:35 PM EST in Basketball Comment 6 comments

Well, that ruined the week, huh? It sounds like Maryland's game against Virginia on Wednesday has been postponed, with no later date announced.

Obviously, this is a result of the tons and tons of snow the area has received, and I had heard anywhere between 7 to 15 or so inches would be coming down on Wednesday. That does make it tough to get around, though I would've assumed they could've made it. Certainly a cautious decision.

This definitely messes with Maryland's schedule and momentum. Now there's almost a week in between games against the Tobacco Road powerhouses, so the rust factor may come into play against Duke, who will play a normal schedule. Teams get into a rhythm, and that rhythm is certainly messed up now. Then again, I'm neither a coach nor a player, so I can't definitively say the impact it will have.

As for the rescheduling, Patrick Stevens posits it'll be played on February 15 or March 8. The 15th is the smart money for now, seeing how it'd avoid back to back UVA games and wouldn't impact rest time before the ACC Tournament.

Regardless, it's a downer.

UPDATE: Yep, it's rescheduled to the 15th.

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Definitely not liking this. I was pumped for the game tomorrow. Now we will be facing Duke on the road Saturday, back home Monday for Virginia, back down to play NCST on the road Wednesday, finishing at home Saturday to play GT. Could potentially help or hurt us for Duke, but definitely will hurt us the next few games after that playing on such little rest. We saw how mad Gary was with our start to ACC play with that quick turnaround game @ wake-which we lost

by amoskowi on Feb 9, 2010 12:40 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Looking forward to these games.

Gary and the team will go into every game with an “us against the world” mentality. No one expects that the team will go in and win all 4. But I think our players legitimately believe that they can. And I have faith in them to do so.

by kckb8 on Feb 9, 2010 4:02 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I hope this is true. Huge stretch of games and will be fun to watch for us fans with so many games in such a short time. Lets hope the team holds up. 4-0!!

by amoskowi on Feb 9, 2010 5:53 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

md-va 7 pm on the 15th. this works out well in my opinion. now the team can focus solely on duke and not get caught up thinking ahead when playing uva. also it gives gary a couple extra days to plan for duke.

by fkterp on Feb 9, 2010 12:46 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Agreed

I have faith in Gary to keep them focused, and fresh legs will be nice. Unfortunate that the rest of the schedule is so condensed, but they can handle it.

Gotta love the way these kids are playing right now.

by Boo. on Feb 9, 2010 1:16 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

One good thing...

UVA plays there big rival away at VT on Sat. at 8pm (of which they are tied with in ACC play), then have to come to UMD, so they will be on less rest than we will since we play at 1. Plus luckily we will only have one away game during the busy stretch (not counting the Duke game) and it is against 2-7 NC State. Seeing as how we have to deal with this scenario, I don’t think it could script much better, it could certainly be a lot worse. Also, we get plenty of rest for the dookies and it is will be for sole possession of 1st place i the ACC.

by Jeffro78 on Feb 9, 2010 1:18 PM EST reply actions 0 recs