How Things Have Changed
Filed under: ACC, NCAA, college basketball, following the locals, sports
Last year at this time, Gary Williams was feeling the heat from the media and fans alike regarding the state of the Maryland Terrapins basketball team. The team had gone through a terrible stretch where they had lost five of seven games, including a loss to Morgan State at home. The Washington Post had written a series that focused on the Terrapins failure to land recruits from within the state (Part 1/Part 2/Part 3). To top things off, there was a war of words between the assistant athletic director and Williams about how one recruit ended up not going to Maryland. While some fans stuck by the coach, others mused out loud that it was time for Williams to go; that he had done all he could and since he wasn’t getting the top recruits anymore, Maryland basketball would never ascend the heights it had back in 2001-2002, when the Terps made the Final Four in consecutive years, winning the title in 2002.
Fast forward to one year later, and you can find hardly any dissent about the job Williams is doing as coach of the Terrapins. His team currently resides in second place in the conference with a 6-2 record at the halfway point of the conference season. The team is not mired in a funk; in fact in the last game the Terrapins routed North Carolina by 21 points. This week sets up to be a big one for the Terrapins with three games in five days. Saturday they take on the first-place Duke Blue Devils in Durham, then Monday play the make-up game with Virginia at home (which was postponed by the blizzard) and two days later face a trip to Raleigh to play North Carolina State’s Wolfpack. While no game is a gimme in the ACC, given how the Terrapins have played so far each of these games are winnable, though the game at Duke certainly will be tough. With the Blue Devils undefeated at home, it will take a team effort for the Terrapins to get a victory there. If they don’t win that game, there wouldn’t be any shame in losing to the conference’s first-place team on its home floor; but it makes the next two games more important.
All in all, the Terps are looking pretty good for a team picked to finish fifth in the conference. It’s nice to see that the status of Gary Williams is not topic A in any discussion of his basketball team. In fact, I can’t say that I have heard any dissent with Williams, the team’s performance or his recruiting ability. What a difference a year makes. But I wonder if this team somehow falters down the stretch, or the season ends in a fashion that fans find unacceptable, will the barking and sniping return.
Maryland Terrapins: Time To Pay Attention
Filed under: ACC, NCAA, basketball, college basketball, following the locals, sports
With football about to go on hiatus (the games, not the business), the time has come for me to begin paying attention to college and pro hoops. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve been kinda keeping an eye on both of them (the NBA due to the Arenas mess and the fantasy basketball league I’m in), but this post will be about ACC hoops in general and the Maryland Terrapins in particular.
Almost every year without fail, the ACC is generally acknowledged as one of, if not the best, college hoops conference. Football in the ACC is a secondary thought-the joke is that the ACC is a basketball conference that dabbles in football. That perception is primarily borne on the success of the two unquestioned powerhouses in conference-Duke and North Carolina. Year after year, these two programs are the marquee features in the league, with successful season after successful season. Their success is often a given in the league-almost every year one or the other is expected to win the league and claim its automatic berth in the NCAA tournament. This year was expected to be no different. However, this year the conference race is wide open. Duke, while still good, is still beatable with the same flaws that have shown up in recent years. North Carolina is suffering a hangover no one really expected, as their young players haven’t quite gotten up to speed with life in the ACC. Everyone else is up and down depending on the opponent.
As it stands right now, Duke is in front, with a one game lead over a surprising Maryland Terrapins squad that is tied with Duke in the loss column. If the Terps can beat North Carolina today, they will finish the first half of their conference schedule with a 6-2 record, which actually wouldn’t be too shabby. The two conference games the Terps lost could hardly be considered shocking: a 2-point overtime loss to an athletic Wake Forest team and a loss to Clemson, both on the road. The Clemson loss may represent the worst game the Terps have played in conference so far. The second half of their conference schedule features two games with Duke and Virginia, the conference’s other surprise team, as well as dates with Clemson, Virginia Tech, NC State and Georgia Tech. A 5-4 finish would get the Terps to 20 wins with 10 losses, and a 10-6 conference record. Granted, as a fan of the Terps you would want them to do better than that down the stretch, but that finish coupled with one win in the ACC tournament should be enough to get the Terps into the NCAA tournament for a second consecutive season. This time last year, Gary Williams was coming under fire for losing games and clashing with the administration, and yet this year, I’ve heard nothing about coaching, or problems.
So from this point forward, I’ll be giving college hoops greater attention between now and the NCAA championship game.
ACC: Looking Like Georgia Tech and Clemson
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With the ACC football season coming down to its final weeks, we can say with certainty that the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets have emerged as the best team in the conference. With a spot in the ACC championship game clinched by Saturday’s blowout of Duke, the Yellow Jackets have a chance to play for a spot in the BCS, likely in the Orange Bowl. With only one loss in conference to a Miami Hurricanes team that has fallen from its somewhat lofty perch from earlier in the season, there can be little doubt that they have been the ACC’s best team. With only the annual rivalry game left on the schedule against Georgia following a bye week, the Yellow Jackets can get ready for the conference championship game, while waiting to see who their opponent will be.
That opponent looks to be the Clemson Tigers. The Tigers, aside from a victory over Miami in overtime, have been quietly going about their business ever since the loss to Maryland. With a win over fading Virginia on Saturday, Clemson will clinch a spot in the conference championship game to face the Yellow Jackets. Clemson did what they needed to do in a victory over N.C. State. The matchup will be a rematch of an exciting game that took place way back in week 2 on a Thursday night in Atlanta. In a back and forth affair, Tech edged Clemson by 3 with a late field goal being the difference. If the championship game is as exciting as that game was (provided Clemson makes it there), fans will not be disappointed.
Elsewhere, the conference has four other bowl-eligible teams: Boston College, Virginia Tech, Miami and North Carolina. Florida State and Duke have chances to become bowl eligible with one more win. The road appears to be easier for the Seminoles than it does for the Blue Devils. Florida State has a date with Maryland before ending the season in the annual matchup with the #1 Florida Gators. Duke has a trip to Miami followed by a home date with Wake Forest. Neither game appears to be easy; Miami despite its recent inconsistency, has plenty of talent on both sides of the ball, and the Demon Deacons will be plenty motivated to finish their season on a high note.
ACC: Onward…Clemson?!?
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Last week in my weekly ACC post, I pointed out that if the conference championship game were to be played at the time of writing, that game would feature Boston College and Virginia. In yet another season where anyone can almost beat anyone else in the ACC, you just knew that the status of those two teams as division frontrunners was not going to last very long. So of course, it lasted for one week. Though the Eagles have no blame for what happened on Saturday (BC played Notre Dame and lost in an out of conference game), the Cavaliers were not as fortunate. Georgia Tech, which may be at the moment the conference’s best team, beat Virginia in Charlottesville 34-9. The win put Georgia Tech at the top of the Coastal Division standings with two conference games against Wake Forest and Duke standing between it and the conference championship game. If the Yellow Jackets can win those games, they are in, without any shadow of a doubt. But of course, this is the ACC. Anything can happen between now and the end of the conference season.
In the Atlantic Division where it seems no one wants to lead, this week’s leader is…Clemson? Yes, Clemson. The Tigers had the biggest win of their season on Saturday, beating the Miami Hurricanes on the road in overtime, 40-37. That win put Clemson in the driver’s seat in the Atlantic Division. Although currently tied with Boston College in wins and losses (both are 3-2 in conference), Clemson holds the head-to-head tiebreaker by virture of beating BC earlier in the season. Both teams cling to a slim half-game lead over Wake Forest, but Clemson holds the edge over the Demon Deacons as well by virture of a 38-3 victory ten days ago. However, Clemson has three conference games remaining-and lest anyone forget, the Tigers did lose to Maryland-so I wouldn’t celebrate just yet. They get the suddenly off the mat Florida State Seminoles at home, as well as the Cavaliers, and have to make a trip to North Carolina State, who along with North Carolina are the only winless teams in conference play.
In other game news, the Seminoles finally won a conference game, roaring from behind to beat North Carolina last Thursday night. It remains to be seen if this is the win that jump-starts Florida State’s season. With four conference games remaining, certainly the Seminoles can make some noise as to who does what in conference. They certainly can put a dent in Clemson’s title hopes on November 7th. Wake Forest went up to Annapolis and lost to a Navy team that did not throw a single pass the entire game. Navy seems to have one game a year where they don’t throw the ball and still come out on top. This makes the second time in three games in two years that the Midshipmen have beaten the Demon Deacons. Maryland suffered yet another loss, this time at the hands of the Duke Blue Devils. It has to be abundantly clear now that Duke is no longer the worst team in the ACC. Maryland just might be. The Terps must now win out to have any shot at a bowl game. Anyone willing to take that bet?
So write it in-Clemson vs. Georgia Tech-but in pencil only.
ACC: Dreams Die In Atlanta
Filed under: ACC, BCS, NCAA Football, college football, sports
Prior to Saturday’s loss to the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets, the Virginia Tech Hokies would have had you believe that they deserved to be in the “conversation.” That the one loss they had suffered in the opening game of the season to the Alabama Crimson Tide was looking better and better by the week. That when the BCS standings came out on Sunday, as the best one-loss team in the nation, they would be in the thick of things, clinging to hope that the field would come back to them and they would be in the mix to play for college football’s national championship.
Saturday the Hokies returned to Atlanta, the city of their opening game loss, to take on Georgia Tech. And while the Hokies fought valiantly, their woes on the road in general, and in Atlanta this season specifically, caught up to them in a 28-23 loss, that all but effectively ended the Hokies chances to get in the national championship mix. The big dog is no more. You could say, why not Miami or Georgia Tech? Shouldn’t they get national championship consideration? Well Miami would, except for their loss to Virginia Tech, who now will drift down in the polls, plus the fact that their best wins have come over a Florida State team that currently sits at 0-3 in conference play and an Oklahoma team that just suffered its third loss Saturday against Texas. Miami will have to win out, and with some style to play in a BCS game, not necessarily the national championship game. The path for Georgia Tech is even more daunting; because they started so low in the polls, there’s almost no way they can move up high enough to be rated in the top two in the BCS, and they have a loss to Miami on their record.
Elsewhere in the conference, if you can tell me right now who will be playing in the conference’s championship game, let me know. As of right now, that game would feature Boston College against Virginia. That would be the Eagles, who hung 52 points on NC State over the weekend, but couldn’t do hardly anything offensively against Clemson or Virginia Tech-and the Cavaliers, who were left for dead in Setpember, but haven’t lost a conference game as yet. Natrually, I don’t expect that to last. For one thing, anyone can win the Atlantic Division, even bottom-dweller Florida State, which faces an important game against fellow winless-in-conference North Carolina on Thursday night. I can’t see Virginia holding on either; the Yellow Jackets come calling in Charlottesville on Saturday, and Virginia Tech and Miami lie in wait.
So, it looks like another season where the teams in the conference will beat each other up, but no shot at national championship glory. Enjoy the conference races, maybe even enjoy the conference title game. It will be interesting to see who represents the conference in the BCS and what team they will match up against, but that is a long way down the road.
ACC: Ain’t No Tellin’
Filed under: ACC, NCAA Football, SEC, college football, football, sports
Another college football weekend in the books, another unpredictable set of games for ACC conference teams. Like the title says, ain’t no tellin’ what you’re gonna get from week to week.
Start with what, until Saturday, were universally assumed to be the conference doormats. Virginia, which hadn’t won a game all season, and had lost its opening game against William & Mary, went down to North Carolina and beat the Tar Heels, giving them their second conference loss in a row. That win puts the Cavaliers at 1-0 in conference, making them and Virginia Tech unbeaten in the conference’s Coastal Division. And Maryland, giving away games faster than people give out Halloween candy, held on with a defensive effort not seen all season to beat Clemson 24-21. Can’t believe anyone could have seen that one coming (I know I didn’t). That win makes Maryland the only unbeaten team in the conference’s Atlantic division. How is this possible? Ain’t no tellin’.
Follow that up witih Miami’s Hurricanes, last seen being overmatched in the rain against the Hokies, bouncing back to beat Oklahoma, 21-20. Say what you want about the Sooners missing Sam Bradford, Jermaine Gresham and Ryan Broyles, Miami scored their points against the Sooner defense, which to my knowledge is still acknowledged as a pretty talented group of players. I’m not sure if that win brings Miami back into the national championship conversation, but anything can happen in college football, and the ‘Canes, just like the Hokies, only have one loss. If Florida, Texas and Alabama suffer losses in the coming weeks, do those two teams get back in the conversation? Ain’t no tellin’.
Elsewhere, Florida State…which team is this? Played Miami down to the wire, came out flat against Jacksonville State, destroyed BYU (which beat Oklahoma) in Utah, now losing to South Florida and Boston College (which lost to Clemson). Saturday’s loss to the Eagles means that the Seminoles are now 0-2 in conference, but you can’t really count them out of the Atlantic Division. I don’t think Maryland sitting on top of the division is any reason to panic, but the Seminoles have got to start playing better ball if they want to be a part of that conversation. Virginia Tech, which looked like world-beaters against Miami last week, held on to defeat Duke, and Wake Forest defeated a N.C. State team that just hung a loss on Pittsburgh of the Big East last week. Georgia Tech stepped out of conference and beat Mississippi State of the SEC, giving them a two-game winning streak. So, it looks like another conference season where the teams will beat up on each other…or will there be a “big dog” with a shot at, at this time, an unlikely national championship?
You got it: ain’t no tellin’.
Is It As Bad As It Seems?
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The bitter taste of defeat for Maryland's Terps (photo credit: AP)
For the Maryland football Terrapins, you wonder if they are asking the titular question. After 3 games, the won-loss record stands at 1-2, with a hard fought victory of one FCS team, James Madison, and two losses to FBS teams-a blowout by California, now looking as the Pac-10’s best team with USC’s loss to Washington on Saturday, and yesterday’s loss to Middle Tennessee State at home. The Middle Tennessee loss probably stings more than the blowout by the Golden Bears, particularly because the Terps had the lead and let the game get away at home. The defense, which was supposed to have improved, has given up 119 points in three games-which averages out to almost 40 a game. While there may be some improvement, it must be incremental, for the results aren’t showing up on the scoreboard. Granted, that defense lost Nolan Carroll to a broken leg and safety Jamai McCullough to injury, but still.
Now Rutgers and Clemson come calling the next two weeks and the fans and the team better hope for better than what they have seen the previous three games. If not, it is going to be a long season in College Park, and fans will be looking forward to Gary Williams sweating out his suits at ACC basketball games. At present, this team doesn’t look like one of the contenders in the ACC. They may win a couple games that they shouldn’t, and those games will probably be at home. But right now, they look like they are only better than Virginia and Duke, and it may not be so clear cut when the Terps play those teams. With Miami and Florida State beginning to look like something resembling their former selves, Virginia Tech still formidable, and just about everyone else either at or above average, the Terps may be looking up at a great many teams in their conference.
So to answer the question, is it as bad as it seems? Well, it looks pretty bad right now. I wonder if there is any heat on coach Ralph Friedgen for how the season is starting. It is universally assumed that Al Groh at Virginia is on a hot seat, particularly after another loss on Saturday to Southern Mississippi. Should there be some heat for Friedgen? If the season continues on a downward trend, count on it-among fans if not among the administration.
Over at the Stet Sports blog, JC gives a no-holds-barred assessment of the Maryland Terps football program. If he’s not actually correct, he’s probably not far off the mark.
ACC: Better, But…
Filed under: ACC, NCAA Football, college football, following the locals, football, sports
Week 2 of the college football season is in the books. Following my last ACC post, the conference had two great conference games which certainly had to lift the spirits of the membership. In an instant classic on Labor Day, Miami’s Hurricanes and Florida State’s Seminoles put on quite a show that the ‘Canes went on to win 38-34, but only after surviving an official’s review of the last play of the game. If the play is ruled a touchdown, Florida State would have won the game instead. Then three days later, Clemson and Georgia Tech played yet another great game that started out as a blowout for the Yellow Jackets, as they ran out to a 24-point lead. Clemson battled back in the second half to take a 27-24 lead, before Tech rallied with two late field goals to win it 30-27.
With those two successes in the rear view, the conference set up for another weekend of games. As far as wins and losses, it was a good Saturday, with only Virginia taking a loss. The Cavalier’s loss, however was expected, as they were playing the #16 TCU Horned Frogs. Nevertheless, that loss, and particularly last week’s loss to William & Mary, have only served to turn up the heat under the seat of one Al Groh, the Virginia head coach. Elsewhere, Maryland, last seen getting shook by California out west, came home to take on another FCS team from the Colonial Athletic Conference, the James Madison Dukes. JMU gave the Terps all they wanted, but the Terps prevailed in OT 38-35. Perhaps the Terps should have had a far easier time, except that James Madison is a very good team, no matter what division it plays in.
Wake Forest, Duke and North Carolina all struggled early before rallying to win their games. Wake and Carolina both won games over teams in BCS conferences, with their victories over Stanford (Pac-10) and Connecticut (Big East). While those will go in the positive side of the ledger in terms of interconference victories, no one will be proclaiming the conference in a more positive light than they did the week before, based on how the games were won. Boston College rolled for the second week in a row, and North Carolina State, last seen scoring 3 points in a loss to South Carolina, rolled up 65 in a laugher against Murray State. Virginia Tech bounced back well from its opening game loss to Alabama with an easy win over Marshall. Finally, Florida State seemed to be a little flat in its victory over Jacksonville State.
With no blockbuster matchups on the schedule, only minimal ground was gained. However, if the two conference games that have been played are any indication, it will be a fun race to see who will play in the conference championship game. It just may not have any real effect on the national championship picture.
Not A Great Weekend For ACC Football
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This year, the ACC wanted-no, needed-to get some national respect. Ever since the raid on the Big East that added Virginia Tech, Miami and Boston College to the conference, the ACC has been on the hunt for national respect as a football conference. Since that time, along with the decline of Florida State and Miami, the plan hasn’t worked out quite as hoped. On this opening weekend of the college football season, there were some opportunities for some of the conference’s teams to start to earn themselves, and the conference some of that respect that it so craves.
Then the games began.
Thursday, a North Carolina State squad hoping to get off to a fast start seemed mired in quicksand against South Carolina’s defense in a 7-3 loss. While State’s defense played well, the Gamecocks defense was better. Saturday brought some victories, albeit against FCS schools. Boston College, Georgia Tech, Clemson and North Carolina all were winners and seemed to have no trouble with their foes. Too bad their other conference compatriots couldn’t say the same, in a Saturday that may have actually reduced the perception of the ACC as a legitimate football conference.
Two other ACC schools had games against FCS foes, and both were beaten at home. Virginia and Duke suffered losses at the hands of William & Mary and Richmond, respectively. Perhaps they should have scheduled Towson, another CAA school who played an FBS team and was drilled by Northwestern’s Wildcats. Those may have been the most embarrassing losses for the conference, on a day where ACC teams had chances to gain respect by beating schools from other BCS conferences, but couldn’t get the job done. Virginia Tech went down to the Georgia Dome to face Alabama, and while they showed better than Clemson did in the same game the year before, still went down to defeat to the Tide 34-24. Tech played well in stretches, but also made costly mistakes. Alabama was not perfect either, by any stretch, but did just enough to get the victory. That game could have given the ACC a national title contender right out of the gate. Now, it remains to be seen if any ACC team will get into the national championship picture this season.
Elsewhere, Wake Forest lost at home to Baylor of the Big 12 and Maryland was drilled by California in a game that looked as if the Terps were still asleep from the start. When the dust settled, the conference went 0-4 against BCS foes and 4-2 against FCS schools. It may get better, but certainly this wasn’t a good start to gaining national respect. I haven’t forgotten tomorrow’s Miama-Florida State game, but its effect on the conference’s national perception will be minimal. Folks watching that game will get more out of whether or not either team is ready to get back to being a factor on the national scene again, as well as a return to their fomer status.
Another Local Sports Team Meltdown
Filed under: basketball, college basketball, following the locals
I’m sure the few (or the proud) Orioles fans who peep at this blog remember the Mother’s Day Massacre between the O’s and the Boston Red Sox last season. Well, it appears that the University of Maryland men’s basketball team has attempted to trump the Orioles in the late-game meltdown department.
Sunday night, while I watched the penultimate episode of The Wire, the Terps coughed up a 20-point, second-half lead at home to the Clemson Tigers, who ended up winning the game 73-70. Thoughts and reaction about the loss can be found in the columns of Mike Wise of The Washington Post and David Steele of The Baltimore Sun. Again, another team from the Baltimore-Washington axis finds a way to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. For the Orioles, it was the bottom of the 9th. For the Terps, it was the final 10 minutes of the second half. And let’s not forget how the Baltimore Ravens let a victory get away from the New England Patriots with less than three minutes left to play just a few months ago.
With March Madness rapidly approaching, a team with Maryland’s resume can ill afford to lose a game such as this. Given that they already have two “bad” losses from earlier in the season (to Ohio and American University, those noted basketball powerhouses), Maryland could not take too many chances-they had to win the games they were expected to win. Not to denigrate Clemson, which is the third-place team in a mostly mediocre ACC Conference, but when you get a team down like Maryland had Clemson, you have to finish the job. Fans are in shock, and are increasingly worried about a bid to the NCAA Tournament that just a few weeks ago looked like a sure thing. Now Maryland has some work to do. Beating Virginia on Sunday is a must, and I would think they would have to win at least one, or maybe two games, in the ACC Tournament next week. Anything less than that, and it could be a berth in the NIT, that “other” tournament.
Gary Williams, the head coach of the Terps, has been quoted as saying “it’s not over yet.” Technically, he’s right. Maryland still has some basketball to play. It will be interesting to see how the Terps come out in Charlottesville on Sunday. They better bring their best effort from now on if they want to hear their name called on on March 16th.
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