We came out rusty, seemed uncomfortable with the atmosphere, and were unfamiliar with the rims (if that makes any sense). By no means a cop-out…just my explanation for our horrid first half play. I think its justified.

On the second half, I think the refs fucked up that one call horribly…clearly a shot-clock violation. I can’t believe they didn’t take a look at it. The entire arena (including several that could be seen behind the basket) knew that it had expired. That said, I don’t think it would have made a difference. As Ben said, we just couldn’t get over that hump.

We’ll be ready to play come tournament time…I think we have an elite 8-quality team, and we’ve peaked at the right time. If all the pieces come together, then final 4 is an outside possibility. Disappointed I won’t have the tourney to watch the rest of the weekend…but the real deal comes next week. Let’s go Terps!

Maryland did not deserve to win. Period.

Bad call toward the end of the game, but the reality was that Maryland could not make a shot to get over the hump anyway. It seemed like they had multiple opportunities to tie the game earlier and failed to connect time after time…

Why was Cliff Tucker not put into the game until there was only 20 seconds left? Hayes or Tucker should have taken the last few shots, not Vasquez…he was not good tonight…

You can’t shoot 37%, 19% from 3-point range when your opponent shoots 55.8% and 66% from 3-point range and expect to win. The only reason Maryland was in the game was because GT couldn’t inbound the ball or shoot their free throws…

Maryland rarely seems to play well in the ACC tournament…or on the road for that matter (BC being the major exception this year). I fear they let the ACC awards go to their head on this one…and what’s up with the new shoes….I’m sure they’ll recover in time for the tourney, but it isn’t going to be easy, because the ACC is not that good this year…if they shoot well, they’ll be fine…but they certainly didn’t do that tonight.

if nothing else, this loss truly humbles us and gives us some perspective of what’s to come.

Maryland will be back, mark my words.

We were pressing GT and were turning it over. We stopped pressing them and began to trade posessions in a half-court game. I don’t know if it was Greivis and GW let him do it, or GW told Grievis to slow it down. The effect was that GT regained its composure, their defense picked up, and we stopped getting both scoring opportunities and GT TOs. I think if we had maintained that uptempo pressing game until we had taken the lead, we would have won the game. What we did just wasn’t smart Maryland bball.

im sad

was back in slump mode…got good looks and got a few half way down but ended up 0-7. Hopefully he gets back on track and doesn’t revert back to the mid-acc offensive slump

Not that upset. An ACC championship would have been nice but I feel like we’ve worn ourselves out lately. I figured we’d either lose to UVA or lose in our first ACC tournament game. That’s just the way things work.

Much rather have what happened tonight than blow a huge lead and lose. We played a good 2nd half, and that gives us momentum. And the fact that we lost is making us hungry. I knew we’d struggle against that frontline.

We’re healthy and well-rested for the big dance and hungry for a win. As far as the big picture goes, this might be exactly what we needed.

Keep in mind JW hardly played due to foul trouble. And yea, one of the most oddly officiated games I’ve ever seen. Even so, this means they’re a 5 or 6 seed and have been brought back down to earth. Good. This team is still good enough to get to the Sweet 16. This game doesn’t change that, it may actually help.

NC state just won but before anybody freaks out and says “dam MD would have just had to beat NC state on Saturday to meet up with Duke in the championship” you need to realize that MD’s loss had an affect on FSU. Who knows whether or not they would have still lost had MD won and put pressure on them to advance. This is the same type of caution that we must have when we look at Lance Stephenson. He is coming back next year, but if he came to UMD and played in the NCAA tournament, his stock and national profile would have went up even further (as if 39 espn games weren’t enough). So we cannot say that Lance would have been a 2 year player for us. He is one for the Bearcats simply because they didn’t have as great of a season as we did. Peace

This is tourney time. One loss and and your done. The defense gets better and the refs allow more contact. Shooting percentages go down and there is a lot of ugly ball. GT actually shot lights out for a tourney game and still put up only 69 pts.

We let a team of freshmen without a true point guard try to hold onto a small lead. We had them down and then let them up. GW knows it. I hope it serves as the right motivation for this team regardless of our seeding.

i think this is the real maryland team. we only have one good win this year and that was at home. vasquez was terrible as were his decisions on the court. first off many of his shots where bad shots and second he was off. so if you are the leader pass it to the hot players instead of forcing up garbage shots at critical times. i was going to say he lost us the game but i change that to gary because he let vasquez keep shooting. that game made me sick ugggggggggggggggggggggggggggg. one and done in the ncaa

but since the win against Duke, the Terps haven’t been the same. Sure, they won at UVA, but after all but losing a 14-point lead, that win felt a bit like a loss, and tonight they were awful in every facet of the game in the first half and couldn’t buy a basket all game. Had they pulled out the comeback tonight, they would’ve regained some momentum. Now, they’re going to have another five-six day layoff instead. And as tonight and the games at Clemson and Duke demonstrated, perhaps there is such a thing as too much rest.

Although I am rarely of this opinion I think Gary Williams made a serious coaching mistake this evening. I believe that both Dino Gregory, Jordan Williams and Milbourne ought to have started tonight with Mosley coming off the bench. The ESPN and Raycom announcers both made the correct point that with the Williams Milbourne frontcourt line up we did not have nearly the size out on court that GTech did. We needed more size to help match up against them.
Second UMD needs to find a way to run the flex better by next week when whomever is guarding GV covers him very tightly and the other four players play very strong ball denial defense. This is what Duke did in the first game and Georgia tech was effective with it this evening. The problem for UMD is that when GV does not shoot well taking the ball to the rim, we really dont have another player capable of that except Bowie. This leads to lots of fifteen foot jumpers which is a difficult shot, and when you have Landon Milbourne playing the four and shooting these shots were are completely overmatched while rebounding.
Third, Maryland needs to tighten up the three point defense which has been part of the problem in our worst losses that to Duke at Cameron and tonight.

looked like very tentative about shooting the ball and when he is passing up open shots and being scared to shoot, the Terps usually lose. Also, the refs pretty much handed the game to GT with the BS fouls and non-calls on GT. GT SUCKS ASS!