Maryland Minute - 5.2.14 - Maryland/Virginia: Part CLXXII

Terps basketball to host Virginia in 2014 ACC/Big Ten Challenge
Story from Alex Prewitt on the announcement of Virginia as Maryland's ACC/B1G Challenge partner. Even with all the weirdness, darkness and uncertainty surrounding Maryland basketball right now, it'll be fun to face a familiar face next season. A familiar, annoying, preppy, elitist face.

Ranking ACC/Big Ten Challenge basketball games 2014 - ESPN
Virginia at Maryland comes it at number 4. First is obviously Wisconsin/Duke, then Iowa/UNC (eh) and Ohio State/Louisville (should be second). As one would expect, last on the list is VT at Penn State. What a butt of a game.

Terps' Mark Turgeon denies that Seth Allen, Charles Mitchell have asked to transfer - baltimoresun.com
Don Markus does a good job of summing up the weirdness of the last few days. Sounds like decisions still have to be made.

What if we'd had a College Football Playoff selection committee from 1998 to 2012? - SBNation.com
What if the College Football Playoff committee had been around for every year of the BCS? There is one Maryland team who gets mentioned in this...you can probably guess which one... [Dave]

Twitter / outsidethenba: you ask Greivis Vasquez about ...
Greivis is hitting huge shots and playing a major role for the Raptors this playoffs. They're up 3-2 in the series against the Brooklyn Nets and could end the series tonight. He also remains a great quote.

Here is a video of young pandas going down a slide. I feel like we all need this right now.