Maryland Minute 3.5.10 - Greivis Vasquez Named Cousy Award Finalist
by Ben Broman on Mar 6, 2010 12:07 AM EST
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Greivis Vasquez Named Finalist for Cousy Award
John Wall won the fan vote. Evan Turner, who isn't even a PG, is on the list, while the entirely deserving Jeremy Lin is not. Whatever, Greivis is in and that's all that matters. Congrats to GV, and hopefully he wins.
Bracketology 101 - Terps a 5 seed
MD is the first of the 5 seeds. BTW, if you haven't seen Bracketology 101 before, they've been on of the most accurate sites in picking the tourney participants and their seeds over the last few years. They make Lunardi look like a 4 year old making picks. And they also question other experts on their picks. - DT
RTC Bracketology - MD a 5 Seed
Kentucky would be the potential #1 Maryland would have to face. Looks like 5 has become the consensus.
Bracken's Story on Palsson
Good stuff from Matt Bracken, as always.
"They love his skill set and they love the fact that he’s coming from a program where we’ve been fortunate in seven years to produce many players that have been very successful at the collegiate level," Sutton said. "I think he’s a player that will do very well playing for Gary Williams because he’s a Gary type of player. He wasn’t on everyone’s recruiting radar, but he’s going to be a very good player for Maryland. He’s a tough-minded kid."
Maryland Up to 11 in the SBN Power Poll
Deserved. Also, the highest I've seen Maryland outside of Andy Katz's top ten ranking.
Dana O'Neil: Pitt Panthers guard Jermaine Dixon counts his blessings - ESPN
Good story on Pitt's Jermaine Dixon, brother of Juan. Talks about how Juan threw him out of Gary Williams' basketball camp once for having a bad game and for crying. Tough brotherly love as Jermaine was only 12. Maybe that's why he ended up at Pitt and not UMD. Good read. - DT
New C.J. Leslie Mixtape
C.J. Leslie dunking to O Fortuna-esque chants? Yeah, I watched it twice in a row.
Travis Hughes Has a Top 5
That includes Maryland.
His father said the favorites – right now – are Maryland, Virginia Tech, Clemson, South Carolina and North Carolina. He also said Virginia "has really come on strong."
I wouldn't be surprised if Maryland leads, Hughes seems to be very close with his brother and relishing the chance to play with him. If you don't know who Hughes is, he's a top 100ish LB from the Va. Beach area.
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Leslie
I salivate at the idea of Leslie being on this team next year. Although I’m not sure how likely it is we get 6 recruits in one class, it would be awesome. Has anyone ever seen him shoot a jumper? I understand dunks are what drive the highlight reels, but does he even have a game beyond 5 feet from the rim?
The caption for the picture is hilarious!!
Don't give up, don't ever give up. - Jim Valvano
Fear The Turtle!!
by BaltimoreSportsFan on Mar 6, 2010 7:49 AM EST reply actions
turner is a point guard this year. last year he played power forward. and he is great! he’ll probably go number one or two in the nba draft.
Turner is the best player in the country...
And should win NPOY. But IMO you can’t give a PG award to a guy who averages 4 TOs a game and has an A:TO ratio of less than 1.5 to 1. I think this award should come down to Wall or Greivis.
Re: Bracketology
It’s a good site, but I still don’t buy that we aren’t deserving of a 4 seed at this point. Looking at their 3s and 4s, IMO:
-we’re probably not going to pass Wisconsin b/c of the head to head loss, and WV is pretty much a lock for a top 3.
-we have a better overall profile than New Mexico or Pitt, IMO, but b/c of NM’s winning streak and Pitt’s excellent BE record I think it unlikely that we pass either
-Vanderbilt, Temple, and Mich. St. would probably need to lose at least one more game for us to have a chance to pass them, but all are somewhat vulnerable IMO
-I would argue that we are CLEARLY a better team than Tennessee right now, regardless of what happens the rest of the way. Unless they win the SEC tournament, I don’t see any justification for giving them a Top 4 seed
So IMO we should be the last 4 seed right now, with a chance to move up depending on what happens. Definitely need a W today to solidify our status…
A 6 seed might be nice though
I don’t see any of the 11’s or 3’s giving the Terps any trouble whatsoever, though a potential 4/5 game beatdown of Georgetown in the second round would be the icing on the cake after kicking Duke in the junk. I could see the NCAA putting that together b/c that sorta stuff seems to magicly appear every year.
We're difficult to seed because we're still getting better.
The Duke game is a great example of how much we’re improving. Bilas said at halftime that we had squandered our first-half lead and missed an opportunity to beat a really good team. I think Bilas tries to be objective, but he clearly didn’t recognize how much we’ve improved and how evenly matched the teams are right now. So, that brings up another question about seeding. How can Duke be a 1 while we are a 5? Duke is 6-5 away from Cameron and showed some important weaknesses in the game with us. Unlike past Duke teams, they are not good in transition. They have a half-court game but they don’t play an uptempo game very well at all. We took advantage of it. They had no answer for Adrian or even Greivis when he pushed the ball up the floor. I know our our rebounding is still an issue but we’ve shown we can win different ways. This team has a lot of upside.
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