How is any of this possible? How can we be 0-6 at Miami since they joined the ACC? They have NO fanbase and have made the tournament once in that time frame. They usually aren't even close. Then we come in here, and they're without their third leading scorer. But instead of winning, we go down by 16 late in the game. And then after a furious comeback, Miami loses their second and fourth leading scorers to fouls in the first overtime and end of the second half, respectively. But of course your Maryland Terrapins cannot capitalize.
I though for sure they were going to play the Benny Hill music at some point during this game because of how stupid everyone involved was. The refs were comical. A bad, questionable T early on against Miami. A double T against Turge after a terrible charge call against Faust. General mayhem all over the place. Reggie Johnson fouled out with a tech for grabbing Faust driving to the rim well after the whistle had blown for a foul out on the perimeter. Both teams played spectacularly dumb basketball. Miami looked like they had no clue how to play with a lead. They gave the Terps a chance to get back into the game by settling for running down the clock after breaking the press rather than attacking the basket, even when they were only up by three or five. The Terps just made mistake after mistake when given the chance to win. Stoglin's long jumper at the end of regulation - granted, a missed foul by the refs - was a terrible look, especially when he had a step to get closer to the rim and maybe draw more obvious contact.
Most of all, the point is that this isn't a moral victory. This team was playing a mediocre Miami team without some of its best players for some or all of the game, and couldn't even manage to take away a win. The team, frustratingly enough, is not getting better as the season goes on. To the contrary, the only notable wins came against Notre Dame and Colorado in the first month of the season. Pe'shon Howard has been generally uneven (to say the least) at the point guard position, and Alex Len has struggled big time since his hot start, although he did have a nice game tonight.
It's so damn frustrating. WE ARE MARYLAND! How can we not win just one damn time at Miami. They're never good. They're never particularly talented. They've never been well coached.
AND ANOTHER THING...
Do we ever just get fucking lucky? I mean, we played good defense on that one key possession and they inbound with four left on the shot clock. The idiot catches the ball and doesn't even realize that he has to shoot for about three seconds, then hits an absolute PRAYER he chucked up from thirty feet. And of course the refs conveniently miss a blatant goal tend on the first possession of the second OT which set the tone for how the game would end. That's pretty much automatic. If the ball is above or near the rim after a shot, and a guy taps it in, if it's not clear that it ISN'T a goaltend, you always see the refs call it. Just not here, and not now.
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