tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86626364723062481232024-03-14T12:33:47.479-04:00But Then Came Gary WilliamsWe just SAY things!Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15452705849881963674noreply@blogger.comBlogger178125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662636472306248123.post-38105793573243331442014-06-30T20:53:00.000-04:002014-06-30T21:42:11.998-04:00Sports Tsars: Fixing Conference (Re)Alignment"You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain." -Harvey Dent, The Dark Knight (2008)
And so we have reached the point where the NCAA, college presidents, athletic directors, and the college athletic machine as a whole have fulfilled this prophecy. Sure, they may have started swaying towards the dark side some time ago. But it can't be denied that we are Raphaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591259628445907346noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662636472306248123.post-56339510015943406182014-04-08T20:30:00.000-04:002014-04-08T20:30:28.916-04:00ALL of the Transfers
I couldn't even get the motivation to write a year in review post before all hell broke loose this evening as Jeff Ermann reported that Roddy Peters, Nick Faust, and Shaq Cleare will all seek greener pastures on the transfer market. While none was inherently shocking - only Seth Allen and Jake Layman seemed absolute locks to return next season - the suddenness of all three transfers S. Terpletonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04882991561843962533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662636472306248123.post-3468593941537290802014-03-16T18:00:00.002-04:002014-03-16T18:00:09.484-04:00The Field of 68 PredictedSOUTH (MEMPHIS)(Orlando)
Florida vs Mt St Mary's/Texas Southern
Memphis vs Kansas State
(Spokane)
San Diego State vs Stephen F Austin
North Carolina vs Tulsa
(Buffalo)
Villanova vs NC Central
UConn vs Iowa
(Milwaukee)
Michigan vs UL-Lafayette
Baylor vs Gonzaga
WEST (Anaheim)
(San Diego)
Arizona vs Coastal Carolina/Cal Poly
George Washington vs Oklahoma State
(San Antonio)
Creighton vs New S. Terpletonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04882991561843962533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662636472306248123.post-10029486295942228792014-03-01T15:01:00.001-05:002014-03-01T15:01:23.746-05:00Nine (or Thirteen Places) to see a gameTHE PALESTRA
I've been here! If your arena is known as "the cathedral of college basketball", there's a good chance it makes the list of best college hoops venues. It's hard to imagine how, uh, big the Big 5 is in Philly when you don't live there. Or at least I'm speculating that it is. Philly has a Baltimore-level passion for basketball, but unlike Baltimore it has a half dozen S. Terpletonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04882991561843962533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662636472306248123.post-71003781754847387582014-02-04T22:56:00.003-05:002014-02-04T22:57:27.001-05:00Dezmine(to the tune of Glycerine by Bush)
We needed that win, it's sinking in
Needed to beat Heels, that I can feel
We don't use our mind
It's not our kind
The moronic plays, sure were a sign
When the Terrapins wear white
My mood's gone gray
It's even worse, when we're away
We've played like piss
Remember Juan
The time that we ranked, number one
Don't Let the days go by
Dezmine
Dezmine
PlayingS. Terpletonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04882991561843962533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662636472306248123.post-45806944632795736692013-12-22T19:22:00.004-05:002013-12-22T19:24:05.716-05:00Our Pets Heads are Falling Off!At some point you learn from your mistakes. No, not the Terps, but your humble author. After years of jumping to call things a low point, you learn to just stop doing that for fear of what will come next. Yesterday's lost to Boston U wasn't the first time that Maryland has lost to a team from the lowly Patriot League in Comcast Center, just the most recent. The Terps led S. Terpletonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04882991561843962533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662636472306248123.post-21341722991682421802013-03-17T17:10:00.000-04:002013-03-17T17:57:29.597-04:00Suck It LunardiHere's the bracket. It's happening. Terps in. Let's goooooooooooo.
I'll bet I do better than Lunardi.
SOUTH
--
Louisville vs Western Kentucky/NC A&T
Oklahoma vs Cal
Florida vs Akron
Saint Louis vs Bucknell
Michigan State vs Florida-Gulf Coast
Oregon vs Wichita State
Pitt vs Maryland/Middle Tennessee
Kansas vs Harvard
WEST
--
Gonzaga vs Long Island/Liberty
Cincinnati vs S. Terpletonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04882991561843962533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662636472306248123.post-83120635693851600602013-02-22T22:53:00.000-05:002013-02-22T22:54:10.652-05:00And then this happened...
Click pic for full image.
Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01917318011331954316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662636472306248123.post-22063976750147733552013-02-18T12:53:00.000-05:002013-02-18T12:53:06.392-05:00
So this happened...
My art direction is slacking, so I'll repost instead. New art forthcoming, now that I remembered my password. Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01917318011331954316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662636472306248123.post-60069845733802350542013-02-17T17:25:00.000-05:002013-02-17T17:25:30.518-05:00#BEATDUKEOh yeah, we did that shit. More to come.
In the meantime, enjoy the shot chart from the Virginia game!
Howard: 2-4 (1-2, 0-1, 0-0, 1-1)
Faust: 4-9 (3-3, 1-1, 0-4, 0-1)
Wells: 5-9 (3-3, 0-1, 0-0, 2-5)
Padgett: 1-2 (1-2, 0-0, 0-0, 0-0)
Len: 3-6 (3-3, 0-2, 0-1, 0-0)
Allen: 4-8 (3-5, 1-1, 0-0, 0-2)
Aronhalt: 3-7 (1-1, 0-0, 0-2, 2-4)
Layman: 1-7 (0-1, 0-0, 1-2, 0-4)
Mitchell: 1-3 (1-3, S. Terpletonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04882991561843962533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662636472306248123.post-4229277099248757972013-02-14T22:53:00.000-05:002013-02-14T22:53:58.844-05:00But Then I Saw ThisEd. Note: But Then I Saw This is a recurring series where stats, preferably of the tempo free variety, are used to crush the very fundamentals beliefs of the author. This is entry the first.
The always great Luke Winn posted this handy chart in his weekly power rankings:
All year, or at least for the past month plus after it became clear that Maryland wasn't All That Good, the talking S. Terpletonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04882991561843962533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662636472306248123.post-6664410988101978382013-02-10T21:09:00.001-05:002013-02-10T21:09:04.173-05:00Evaluating the rest of the 2012-13 SeasonIn an ugly loss today to the Wahoos, the Terps simply didn't show up and got outrebounded for the first time all season. At 17-7 (5-6), it's time to re-assess the Terps. Simply put, this team is NOT what most fans (including myself) thought it was. On paper, they seem to have the talent to compete with any team in the country. But they would get absolutely run out of the gym by the likes of terpsfan325http://www.blogger.com/profile/00614972599324023842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662636472306248123.post-87220376616052632132013-02-06T21:30:00.001-05:002013-02-14T22:55:11.203-05:00Wake Wakes Somnabulent Terps OffenseGetting 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, isS. Terpletonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04882991561843962533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662636472306248123.post-67980605966232287792013-02-02T02:54:00.000-05:002013-02-14T22:56:04.921-05:00Snaer'dI just wonder why you would leave a man with a reputation for clutch three point shooting open to take a clutch three point shot as time winds down. For all the good Dezmine Wells did last night, the decision to double (triple?) down on a driving Ian Miler instead of staying with Snaer was inexcusable
Maryland was doomed from the start of the play. Nick Faust got rubbed off a (S. Terpletonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04882991561843962533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662636472306248123.post-46931887764380300792013-01-29T21:06:00.000-05:002013-01-29T21:06:50.513-05:00Florida State, for the seasonHaving already lost to Florida State once this month, Maryland experiences the joys of the unbalanced schedule by making the return trip to Tallahassee just three weeks later. The Terps, of course, find themselves in precarious position with a still somewhat gaudy 15-5 record overall but a decidedly less ostentatious 3-4 ACC record. Given the lack of non conference heft thisS. Terpletonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04882991561843962533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662636472306248123.post-81729905872004065782013-01-28T08:14:00.001-05:002013-01-29T21:07:45.652-05:00VT Shot Chart (1/5/13)The last time we had an offense. Rewatching this game wasn't nearly as much of a chore as some of the others this month will be.
Pe'shon Howard: 0-5 (0-2, 0-0, 0-0, 0-3)
Nick Faust: 0-1 (0-0, 0-1, 0-0, 0-0)
Dez Wells: 3-5 (2-3, 0-0, 0-0, 1-2)
James Padgett: 0-1 (0-1, 0-0, 0-0, 0-0)
Alex Len: 6-12 (4-5, 1-4, 1-3, 0-0)
Seth Allen: 8-12 (3-3, 0-1, 2-2, 3-5)
Logan Aronhalt: 2-3 (0-0, 0-0, 0-0,S. Terpletonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04882991561843962533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662636472306248123.post-6328378272168917782013-01-26T22:36:00.001-05:002013-01-26T22:54:09.363-05:00Another Cameron Ass-WhoopingIf indeed this was Maryland's last game at Cameron Indoor Stadium for a while, it was a fitting one. The Terps lost their sixth straight there, failing to keep the score to single digits for the fifth time in that span. For the second straight weekend, a good, but not great, wing from the research triangle lit the Terps up. This time it was Duke frosh Rasheed Sulaimon who S. Terpletonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04882991561843962533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662636472306248123.post-2747715419406923602013-01-24T23:03:00.001-05:002013-01-25T21:13:11.926-05:00Showdown at CameronSaturday at 1 PM might be the end of an era, the same way that last Saturday at noon might have been the end of an era. Maryland travels to Duke for what could be their final game at Cameron Indoor Stadium before their move to the Big Ten in 2014-15. The schedule for next season has yet to be released with the expanded 14 team ACC so it remains to be seen whether the teams will play aS. Terpletonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04882991561843962533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662636472306248123.post-59868518584085359612013-01-23T22:22:00.000-05:002013-01-29T21:08:41.864-05:00Game Breakdown, UNC 1/19/13I know I'm a little late on breaking down this monstrosity of a game but a) I traveled 600 miles to watch it and wasn't in a hurry to relive it and b) greatness takes time.
Point Breakdown:
Transition: 20
Halfcourt: 16
Putbacks: 16
It's tough to make much out of a one game sample where the team only scored 52 points, especially with no frame of reference for how these categories typically S. Terpletonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04882991561843962533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662636472306248123.post-52574577854002700822013-01-17T00:48:00.000-05:002013-01-17T00:48:01.495-05:00Blast-Off #3
Mumpkins and Ritchie's Blast-Off #3
51-50 W vs (14) NCST
The Terps didn't want me to write a third-straight disappointing post, so they decided to pull out a win over the (14) NCST Wolfpack tonight at Comcast. What a game. Despite not making a FG for a 10-minute period in the first half, the Terps got after it on defense all night, holding the NCAA leader in team field goal percentage (52.8%terpsfan325http://www.blogger.com/profile/00614972599324023842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662636472306248123.post-5866123815065080932013-01-14T00:46:00.003-05:002013-01-14T00:46:41.693-05:00Give and TakeTurnover margin will kill this team. All season the team has been effective shooting the ball (last 60ish minutes notwithstanding), good at rebounding it, and has had an advantage on the FT line, yet their efficiency numbers on both sides of the ball were only so-so.
Why?
Part of that was simply that those first numbers were so high because the competition was weak, but I would submit S. Terpletonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04882991561843962533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662636472306248123.post-15608637868347274832013-01-14T00:00:00.001-05:002013-01-14T00:34:06.852-05:00Blast-Off #2
Mumpkins and Ritchie's Blast Off #2
54-47 L @Miami
Second straight post after a very disappointing loss. I'm extremely frustrated after watching an ugly, sloppy game by both teams. After the second half of the FSU game, I didn't think the Terps were capable of playing a worse 20 minutes of basketball, and then they put up a 14 spot in the first half tonight. So not too many fun links tonightterpsfan325http://www.blogger.com/profile/00614972599324023842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662636472306248123.post-22030175150862122992013-01-10T01:10:00.003-05:002013-01-10T01:10:49.818-05:00Blast-Off #1This is the first of a line of sub-blog posts about Maryland basketball called
"Mumpkins' and Ritchie's Blast-Off!"
...where S.Terpleton and I put a few people on blast after the game and also acknowledge those who were good at sports tonight.
On blast:
1. Fans who left early - After Snaer hit a layup to put FSU up 8 with 1:04 to go, about a quarter of the paying fans (not many students) left terpsfan325http://www.blogger.com/profile/00614972599324023842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662636472306248123.post-26077975136346862942012-11-19T19:09:00.002-05:002012-11-19T19:09:54.826-05:00Maryland to the B1GMore news forthcoming.
- AndrewAndrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15452705849881963674noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662636472306248123.post-49661743327737101522012-04-30T12:14:00.000-04:002012-04-30T12:15:49.320-04:00This Just In: DissapointmentRobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01917318011331954316noreply@blogger.com0