Maryland and American University make the NCAA Tourney
This is pretty big for Gary Williams and the Terps. They’ve had a really up and down year and have been considered one of the most undersized teams in the ACC. During midseason many were calling for Gary’s ouster at season’s end. The Washington Post even did a piece on how Gary had missed a ton of local talent.
This was all before the monstrous win over UNC and the solid showing in the ACC Tournament last week where Maryland beat its first two opponents (NC State and ranked Wake Forest) and put up a fight against Duke (a much better one than eventual ACC Champ contender Florida State).
Now it appears that Garyland is alive and well again with the NCAA berth, even as a number 10 seed. It will be a tough road for the Terps however, because they face Cal in the first round and if they win, the very strong Memphis in the next.
American University is the other local team that made the tournament, they are a 14 seed and will be playing Villanova in the first round.
Butler’s got hamstring problems, Gilbert and Haywood probably won’t play this year and DeShawn is done. That’s four starters folks. Not to mention Etan Thomas, and other players’ health concerns.
Not many teams can compete during the season with such a shakeup of the planned starting lineup. But don’t worry, the Wizards did not rewrite the script and they now have the league’s second worst record with only 16 wins. But hey, we can show the Sacramento Kings (the worst team in the league with 14 w’s) who’s boss.
A lot of fans are calling for the team to give the youngsters (Nick “the young one” Young, Dominic McGuire, JaVale McGee and Javaris Crittenton) more time for the rest of the season. With the injury problems, I don’t think Tapscott has a choice.
On a very much related note, here’s a look at Blake Griffin from Oklahoma through Bobby Knight’s eyes:
Hopefully we get a chance to draft this guy, I think he’s going to be a dynamic player in the NBA. I love the part where Bobby Knight was talking about how Griffin doesn’t complain or whine he gets contact. That’s quite different than another #23 we have all come to know and love!
Sadly, our podcast servers are down. Episode 15 has been all edited and ready for publishing since last Tuesday which is the exact day the outage started. It’s unfortunate; we don’t know when exactly the servers will be back up. Right now, some of the older episodes are availabe here on the website, and some of them appear to have dead links. I’m sorry about that. I haven’t tried iTunes, but I would recommend trying to download missing episodes from there for the time being.
The service has been top-notch so far, and I’m confident that when the servers come back up they’ll be better than ever. Keep watching this site for news. I’ll be posting the episode here as soon I possibly can.
Or do call it a comeback. So we have been gone for about three months now, but we just recorded a good lenghty podcast with the whole cast! Should be up in a day or two after I get through editing it. All three of us have been extremely busy and just have not been able to get together until now. But we’re going to strive for a monthly podcast from now on. Episodes will probably be much shorter more around 20-40 minutes rather than 45-65. So stay tuned.
You may have noticed that there have been no blog posts since December. Matt and David have their own reasons for not ever writing ever. But I am just too busy and the other sites I write for take precedence over this one. So to make a long story short, don’t except any blog posts here anymore. Those will just be surprises if I ever decide I have to tap something out about something.
But keep watching this site for new episodes and podcast news.
Happy New Year everyone. Here is our sort of 2008 Year in Review Show!
Episode 14 – Left click to play, Right-Click to Download
NFL Topics
-Detroit’s Perfect Season
-Plaxico Burress shoots himself in the leg
- T.O shoots his mouth off
- Playoffs? Our new Super Bowl Picks
Redskins Topics
-Mark’s list of Cuts
-Matt’s list of Skins who may not come back next year
- What happened the last few games?
- Sammy Baugh passes away
- Pro Bowl voting
- MVP of the Season
- LVP of the Season
- Rookie of the Season
