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… but the roller coaster stays the same. Oh Maryland basketball, how you mystify me. There hasn’t always been a lot to cheer for this year with losses at home to Virginia Commonwealth, Boston College, American, and Ohio. American? Didn’t we chant ‘Metro is that way’ whilst beating them by 40+ back in Cole Field house? How did this happen? I still watch what games I get out here in the desert, I cheer, curse, throw things and try to look at the bright side of things, but I wasn’t all that thrilled before this weekend’s game at Chapel Hill. Prospects didn’t look good.

Then you go into the Dean Dome and knock off the previously undefeated, #1 ranked Tar Heels in a great game. Neither team played it’s absolute best, but it was a great game and Maryland knocked off the nation’s number 1 for the 7th time in Gary William’s tenure. All you idiots that were calling for his head, take your foot and shove it down your throat. No, one win does not a season make, but if you doubt Gary’s ability to get his kids to play, you’re blind. If you doubt what he can accomplish with what many of you call ‘less than the best’ in recruits, I’d like you to recall the how highly recruited the roster of our 2002 title team was, because they really weren’t. So please, shut up and support the damn team or just shut up. No, this doesn’t make the early seasons losses at home any less embarrassing, but it certainly, hopefully, wakes up a team that many had left for dead until next year.

I just hope the team that showed up today shows up again, and again, and again, and keeps getting better.

Oh, and c’mon UNC fans, I thought you were better than that, going and pulling a ‘Duke’ and weeping over your loss. Maybe you were following your coach’s lead? (Ouch, ok, cheap shot ) Who knows, but one loss does not your season make and we’ll probably see you all playing deep into March. So grab some Kleenex, chill out, and go root against those kids wearing darker blue down in Durham who’s fans were spotted on ESPN high-fiving Clemson faithful upon hearing of your loss. If there were ever a game where I wish both teams could lose, but I guess the ‘lesser of two evils’ rule applies.