Oh My God

I have no idea what to say. I was going to write a long analysis of what went wrong last night and this season as a whole, but who cares? That has been and will be covered in great detail elsewhere so there's no sense in even wasting the bandwidth.

It's unbelievable to think that the game last night actually happened. Gary Williams led an epic collapse, one rivaled in Maryland history only by the infamous ten point lead that evaporated against Duke in 0:54 at Cole Field House in 2001. But even that team got a chance to redeem itself, and did just that by going to the Final Four. There will be no such redemption for this team whose attention now turns to somehow squeaking out victories in its next two or three games just to make the tournament.

It's times like these that make you wonder why you bother even following sports. Andrew's post after the Virginia Tech loss covered this in detail, but the question still remains. Sure, the highs are euphoric, but how much joy can you really derive from living vicariously through others' successes?

So it is what it is. I still can't believe that it happened. I can't believe that Gary Williams allowed it to happen. As much as a fan of his I might be, he blew it in a big way last night. We will see if the team can recover, but at this point, does anyone really care?