NCAA Basketball 2018/2019

[DPMOmaha]

Huh? A road loss to a likely tournament team is a bad loss?

[UMDNats]

Huh? A road loss to a likely tournament team is a bad loss?

Purdue played horribly, seriously the worst I've seen them play in a few years. They tried to gift Maryland a win, and Maryland went the final 5 minutes with 0 field goals. For long stretches Maryland didn't even run plays, they just stood around and chucked up long 3s. 

Purdue is Carson Edwards and a bunch of dudes. Well-coached dudes, but dudes. One of my best friends is a die-hard Purdue alum and he said this year they're more middle-of-the-road B1G than top of the conference and the early season results back that up. Maryland has a junior PG and, two first-round forwards and 4 other top-100 recruits. There is zero excuse to throw away a winnable road conference game when your opponent is playing poorly. Just awful, awful coaching. They got gifted a possession with 3 seconds left to tie it and his play had our PG screening a freaking center.

It has been 12 years since Mark Turgeon beat a ranked team on the road.

[HalfSmokes]

Huh? A road loss to a likely tournament team is a bad loss?

When you have delusions of greatness, yes

[UMDNats]

When you have delusions of greatness, yes

The only delusion of greatness I have is thinking that Maryland should be a tournament team just about every year and that road games against teams with a pulse shouldn't be automatic Ls. If Mark Turgeon misses it this season, he will have missed it as often as he's made it, and he will have coached close to 10 NBA players in that span, including a likely lottery pick this season (Fernando). Pathetic.

Seriously, my bar is "just be a tournament team that sits around 20-40 in the rankings all year and maybe have fun upsets."

The reason it's a bad loss is because it proves this team is no different than any other Mark Turgeon team - unable to beat decent teams but can squeak by bad teams.

[DPMOmaha]

Purdue played horribly, seriously the worst I've seen them play in a few years. They tried to gift Maryland a win, and Maryland went the final 5 minutes with 0 field goals. For long stretches Maryland didn't even run plays, they just stood around and chucked up long 3s. 

Purdue is Carson Edwards and a bunch of dudes. Well-coached dudes, but dudes. One of my best friends is a die-hard Purdue alum and he said this year they're more middle-of-the-road B1G than top of the conference and the early season results back that up. Maryland has a junior PG and, two first-round forwards and 4 other top-100 recruits. There is zero excuse to throw away a winnable road conference game when your opponent is playing poorly. Just awful, awful coaching. They got gifted a possession with 3 seconds left to tie it and his play had our PG screening a freaking center.

It has been 12 years since Mark Turgeon beat a ranked team on the road.

Middle of the road big ten teams are getting to the tournament this year.

[UMDNats]

Middle of the road big ten teams are getting to the tournament this year.

It's a bad loss because a team around Maryland's level played a terrible game and Maryland still was incapable of executing a simple pick-and-roll. You can point to multiple moments down the stretch where they blew opportunities to pull away or take the lead. Purdue tried to give it away.

I mean Carson Edwards sucked yesterday and Maryland still scored only 60 points. They scored 71 vs. UVA!

Also Mark Turgeon does not schedule any OOC games vs. top-50 teams so wins vs. good teams are hard to come by. We're not making the tournament at 19-11 with close losses to Purdue and UVA and wins vs. Rutgers, PSU & Illinois.

[bluestreak]

When you have delusions of greatness, yes

It apparently doesn’t apply to only basketball. 

[Nick the Pig]

Another bad loss for the Mark Turgeon-led Terps. Two first round picks in the front court and he won't be dancing yet again.

The Terps are a bunch of money hungry traitors.  Just sayin'.

[JCA-CrystalCity]

UPenn beats Villanova, breaking a 25 game Big 5 winning streak for Villanova.  1st Quaker win over Villanova since 2002.

[Natsinpwc]

UPenn beats Villanova, breaking a 25 game Big 5 winning streak for Villanova.  1st Quaker win over Villanova since 2002.

It was an entertaining game last night. I think the long city winning streak may be more unbelievable than winning toe national championships in three years.

The Ivy League seems much more talented than a few years ago. Probably still a stretch to get a second bid. Is the tourney at Yale this year?

[JCA-CrystalCity]

It was an entertaining game last night. I think the long city winning streak may be more unbelievable than winning toe national championships in three years.

The Ivy League seems much more talented than a few years ago. Probably still a stretch to get a second bid. Is the tourney at Yale this year?

I would not think they'd move the tourney from the Palestra.  It is much bigger than Payne Whitney.  The only comparable-sized arena in the league is Princeton's (Jadwyn?).

[Natsinpwc]

I would not think they'd move the tourney from the Palestra.  It is much bigger than Payne Whitney.  The only comparable-sized arena in the league is Princeton's (Jadwyn?).

Might as well just play at the top seed.

[UMDNats]

The Terps are a bunch of money hungry traitors.  Just sayin'.

ACC is a small-time conference that only cares about Duke & UNC when it comes to basketball.

[HalfSmokes]

ACC is a small-time conference that only cares about Duke & UNC when it comes to basketball.

The big10 is a big-time conference that still doesn’t give a crap about Maryland

[JCA-CrystalCity]

Might as well just play at the top seed.

Harvard's gym is too small.

[UMDNats]

The big10 is a big-time conference that still doesn’t give a crap about Maryland

They moved the Big Ten men's basketball tournament to DC for us, and they also pay us $40 million a year. I don't care if they favor OSU and PSU when they pay us that well

BTN is also way better than the Food Lion conference having....a partnership with ESPN3?

[Natsinpwc]

Harvard's gym is too small.

I guess they don’t have the money for a bigger one? 

I was just thinking they could play all the individual games at the higher seed? Tough to lineup a tv schedule that way though.
 Probably they will end up back at the Palestra next year.

[Nick the Pig]

ACC is a small-time conference that only cares about Duke & UNC when it comes to basketball.

Ha, I like it ! 

Duke and UNC are our Big Dogs, to be sure.  We can't, and never will, compete with the SEC nor P1G in football...

But, other than having sold out, how are the Terps doing in that midwestern conference ?

[Nick the Pig]

They moved the Big Ten men's basketball tournament to DC for us, and they also pay us $40 million a year. I don't care if they favor OSU and PSU when they pay us that well

Whore !

[UMDNats]

Nebraska-UMD should be a good game coming up soon, DPM.

[DPMOmaha]

Should be. UMD's strengths match up with our weaknesses, but I really like this Husker squad. Maybe the best one in school history. Last 20 years for sure.

[Nick the Pig]

UMD hoops, I can't even....

[UMDNats]

Oh DPM Nebraska might beat Maryland by 20. It's going to be a bloodbath. Maryland is bad. In the last eight years Turgeon has made Maryland basketball from a solid to good program to a turd team and nuked all fan support. It's gross.

[DPMOmaha]

I've learned to never count any chickens when it comes to these sort of things. I do like that we make the trip to Maryland over the holiday break.

[Nick the Pig]

Oh DPM Nebraska might beat Maryland by 20.

No way.  I'll take some of that action !