Wake Wakes Somnabulent Terps Offense

Getting Wake Forest to come to your home arena has to be one of the great get-wells in all the land.  There are teams that are bad on the road.  Maryland has only one road win all year so far.  Then there are teams that are really bad on the road.  The kind that might only win one game the entire year at an opponent's arena.  But then, when you think you've hit bottom, is Jeff Bzdzelik and whatever team he's coaching, racking up a 2-43 road record.  Literally.  That's his road record at Colorado and Wake Forest.  How he still retains employment and handsome compensation is one of the great mysteries of not only basketball but the world.

There really isn't much to say about a game where your team has the fifth highest shooting percentage in school history, and an eFG% nearing 80%, that isn't effusive praise.  The more the year goes on, the more it seems that Maryland isn't a bad three-point shooting team so much as an inconsistent one.  This was obviously one of their better days.  Logan Aronhalt seems to have regained form over the past few games, and Jake Layman is absolutely torrid since ACC play started.  Seth Allen got his groove back as well - finally - and Dez Wells and Nick Faust show some range at times.  Only Pe'shon Howard seems like a lost cause out there, but since it's been seemingly weeks since he made any type of positive play, that isn't a surprise.

SHOT CHART

Howard: (0-1, 0-0, 0-0, 0-0)
Faust: (1-2, 1-1, 0-0, 0-1)
Wells: (3-5, 0-0, 0-1, 1-1)
Padgett: (3-3, 3-3, 0-0, 0-0)
Len: (5-6, 1-1, 0-0, 0-0)
Allen: (1-3, 0-1, 0-0, 3-4)
Aronhalt: (1-1, 1-1, 0-0, 3-4)
Layman: (0-0, 0-0, 0-0, 4-6)
Mitchell: (2-3, 0-1, 0-0, 0-0)
Cleare: (2-2, 0-0, 0-0, 0-0)

ON TO BLACKSBURG

Next up is Virginia Tech, on the road.  We all know the Terps' road woes, and the Hokies have been downright feisty the last two games, taking North Carolina and Miami to the limit.  But make no mistake, this is an absolute must win for any team with aspirations of more than an NIT invitation.  The Hokies have lost 10 out of 14, and even with the ability to deploy a rotation of more realistic depth now, they're not one of the better teams in the conference.  They would have beaten North Carolina with any reasonable type of game from Erick Green (5-17 2FG) so it's certainly not ridiculous to think that VT can upset a given team at home with the nice game they had from their supporting cast.  That being said, it's tough to expect Robert Brown, Jarell Eddie and Cadarian Raines will all crack double figures, so let's call this Terps by 9 as they pull away late.