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[BSLChrisStoner]

Following last night's beating of Boston College, the Maryland Terrapins will attempt to get back to .500 in Atlantic Coast Conference play with an upset win at Virginia tomorrow.

Virginia is 19-6 overall, 6-5 in league play, but have lost 3 of their last 4, including their last two. (After dropping an 18 point decision at UNC on the 11th, they lost by 12 at Clemson on Valentine's Day.)

UVA has wins over Michigan, Oregon, LSU, Miami, @GaTech, BC, @NCST, Clemson, and Wake
In addition to their losses vs. UNC and Clemson, the Cavs have lost to TCU, @Duke, VaTech, and @FSU.

UVA enters the game:

278th overall in PPG: 62.9
250th overall in Rebounds: 33
196th overall in Assists: 12.6
67th overall in FG%: .461
RPI: 40th

The Terps are:

157th in PPG: 69.2
79th Rebounds: 36.5
313th overall in Assists: 10.7
184th overall in FG%: .434

At home, the Cavaliers are 4-1 in league play.

Virginia has 9 players averaging over 9.7 minutes per, and at 2.8 ppg and above.
The Cavs have 5 players averaging 6.7ppg and above, led by Sr Mike Scott at 16.9 ppg. The 6'8 237 lb Forward is averaging 60% from the floor, on 10.6 attempts per game. He is also shooting 81% form the line, with 8.2 boards.

6'6 Soph. Guard Joe Harris is shooting 40% from 3 (4.2 attempts per), and scoring 12ppg.

Their 3rd leading scorer is Sr. Guard Sammy Zeglinski at 8ppg. Zeglinski has been cold lately, scoring a combined 20 points in his past 5 games.

The Cavs are shooting 73% from the line, and 33% from 3 point land.

[BSLZackKiesel]

This is going to be a tough game, but not an impossible one to win. UVA relies heavily on their defense, so the Terps should look to pound the ball inside to Padgett and see if he can't get a few of these guys in foul trouble. While UVA isn't quite as good offensively, Mike Scott is going to be really tough to defend. Our bigs have to step up in a big way in this game. Also, turnovers cannot rule this game. UVA is going to press the Terps, and they can't afford to keep turning the ball over as they're prone to do against pressure.

If the Terps can move the ball around and get open looks for Stoglin, that would put them over the top in my opinion and send them home with a win. Should be a good game, and I'm looking forward to it.

[Mackus]

Really weird first half. MD ice cold from inside, but shooting really well from the outside.

Scott and Stoglin are both playing fantastically.

Faust has 9, but has taken some bad threes (although he made two of the bad ones he took, so what do I know...).

[BSLChrisStoner]

Weird is a good way to describe it. I feel like MD is the more talented team, and needs to come away with the W.

[Mackus]

I'm convinced Mosley is actively trying to throw the game. If he could go back to just being invisible as opposed to being aggressively terrible for the Terps maybe we'd have a shot to get back in the game.

[Mackus]

Really hate that Turgeon is just giving up. What is that supposed to teach?

[Mackus]

13 points in the second half. What an embarrassment.

[BSLChrisStoner]

BSL: MD loses at UVA, crushed in 2nd half; The Good, The Bad, The Ugly
http://baltimorespor...ife.com/?p=3901

[BSLChrisStoner]

Really hate that Turgeon is just giving up. What is that supposed to teach?

I did not have a problem with him pulling the scholarship players, with the game over. As I mentioned in the recap, Coach Turgeon can not score for the Terps, but I thought he did a poor job of making adjustments during that 16-0 UVA run in the 2nd half. MD needed to put full court pressure on somewhere during that 8 minute stretch and try and use that to get the offense going.

Very disappointed with the result today. I don't think that UVA team has any more talent than the Terps.

[You Play to Win the Game]

Bottom line, we're just not good enough. This year.

[bnickle]

Really hate that Turgeon is just giving up. What is that supposed to teach?

I think it was mostly about 3 games in 6 days. Your down 18 with 4 min left. The game was over. No need to wear out the legs more and risk another injury since we are once again down to 8 scholarship players.

[glenn__davis]

Really hate that Turgeon is just giving up. What is that supposed to teach?

Like bnickle said, I think that was about preparing for the next game. The team looked gassed, and you have another relatively quick turnaround with a game on Tuesday.

Having said that, I haven't been all that impressed with Turgeon's in-game adjustments or his substitutions, and the conditioning of the team does not seem that good to me. Especially Len - I know he is a freshman and has a lot to adjust to, but he seems to wear down very quickly.

Hopefully getting some more talent in here, particularly in the frontcourt, will help.

[Mackus]

Having said that, I haven't been all that impressed with Turgeon's in-game adjustments or his substitutions, and the conditioning of the team does not seem that good to me. Especially Len - I know he is a freshman and has a lot to adjust to, but he seems to wear down very quickly.

I don't know if I don't like many of his in-game decisions, or if he is just different than Gary in ways that seem so ingrained to me while watching that they seem like mistakes.

He is much more conservative with his timeouts than Gary was. Maybe he's just trying to let the players learn on the fly still (he admitted he didn't call timeouts earlier in the season because he wanted the guys on the floor to work through their issues), but he definitely lets runs and bad play go longer without a timeout than Gary did.

To his credit though, the team does play incredibly hard even when they aren't playing well. And the team defense has been a very pleasant surprise. For a squad that seemed impossibly thin on the inside coming into the season they have done a good job on the glass. I certainly think he is a heck of a coach, but it's still weird that he isn't Gary.

[glenn__davis]

He is much more conservative with his timeouts than Gary was. Maybe he's just trying to let the players learn on the fly still (he admitted he didn't call timeouts earlier in the season because he wanted the guys on the floor to work through their issues), but he definitely lets runs and bad play go longer without a timeout than Gary did.

I actually love that about him. I always thought Gary took time-outs too quickly. You have to let your team learn to correct their own mistakes sometimes.

[Mackus]

I actually love that about him. I always thought Gary took time-outs too quickly. You have to let your team learn to correct their own mistakes sometimes.

I agree, especially earlier in the season. However I think by now, he needs to reign things in when they are getting out of control. There really wasn't anything I strongly disagreed with from the UVA game in that regard, but the game against Clemson I thought he desperately needed to call some timeouts when their press really gave us (Pe'shon especially) trouble and let them back in the game. We needed a better plan to beat that press and the guys on the court clearly weren't doing things in a very fundamentally sound way. Fortunately we were still able to sneak out of there with a win, though.

It's just interesting to see the different style from Gary, without classifying it as better or worse.

[glenn__davis]

It's just interesting to see the different style from Gary, without classifying it as better or worse.

I agree, good points all around.

I've gotten my wife to be a casual MD fan, and as we were watching the 2nd half the other day she said, "Gary wouldn't have stood for this." I'm not sure what Gary would have done differently, but you're right in that it is different to watch them.

And just to be clear, I've still got a lot of support for Turgeon. I'm not quite as high on him as others seem to be, but I do think he'll ultimately be successful here. There's not much he can about the fact that he's got 1 guy who's a legitmate ACC starter.

Going to take a while though. Hopefully the incoming freshmen will help, and hopefully Len can put some bulk on during the offseason.

[SBTarheel]

The lack of time outs is the "Carolina coaching tree" way he learned from Larry Brown and Roy Williams, who of course learned it from Coach Smith. It will make these guys better decision makers in tough situations, I promise you!

The future is bright for you guys, I mean honestly, how many of you expected this team to win 18-20 games?

[DJ MC]

I actually love that about him. I always thought Gary took time-outs too quickly. You have to let your team learn to correct their own mistakes sometimes.

I agree, especially earlier in the season. However I think by now, he needs to reign things in when they are getting out of control. There really wasn't anything I strongly disagreed with from the UVA game in that regard, but the game against Clemson I thought he desperately needed to call some timeouts when their press really gave us (Pe'shon especially) trouble and let them back in the game. We needed a better plan to beat that press and the guys on the court clearly weren't doing things in a very fundamentally sound way. Fortunately we were still able to sneak out of there with a win, though.

It's just interesting to see the different style from Gary, without classifying it as better or worse.

I remember being able to call Williams' timeouts the instant the other team scored, with about 95% accuracy. I forget which game it was recently (maybe Clemson), but the other team went on a run and I was going, "Ok, he's going to call timeout...now..." *Opposing basket* "...ok, now..." *opposing basket* "...ok...NOW..." before he called one.

Just found it funny.