Heels and Friends Beat Terps 91-80.

After yesterday's game, I am sure there are a ton of people out there who think our win over Carolina was a fluke because of Ashleigh's shot. Count me out of that group. Yesterday proved that even after 3 games in 3 days we can still play with the #1 team in the country. We cut the game to 3 and then UNC decided to let the refs affect the outcome of the game. Then after we made it a game again, another phantom call and essentially we were taken out of our comfort zone.

Here's a stat for people to chew on: First 10 minutes of the game, Maryland 3 Fouls Against, North Carolina 8 Fouls Against. Remaining 30 minutes of the game: Maryland 21 Fouls against, North Carolina 11 Fouls Against. Can someone explain how a pressing team commits fewer fouls than a team that sits back and gets ready? That's 10 more fouls in a 30 minute span. Of course the same jackass who gave a technical to Ashleigh on Saturday worked the game on Sunday so that was decidely against us. How does the best conference in the ACC have the crappiest refs in America?

To make matters worse, Tennessee beat LSU last night so that idiot Charlie Creme has them jumping over 7 teams and getting a one seed, while we are stuck with a #2. I would have never guessed losing to only 4 games to teams ranked #1 in the country would result in being a two seed.

Other than that, I thought we played with heart and emotion, but Carolina was a little fresher and a lot longer.

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Positives

Jade Perry. She came off the bench and scored 18 points on 7 of 8 shooting, most of which were jumpers. This earned her second team all-tournament honors. I wish she would have rebounded more, but her offense kept us in the game.

Newman. She looked more aggressive and determined to score yesterday. Good things happen when not saddled with foul trouble.

Coleman. Again she was ready to take over the game. It's too bad the refs didn't allow that.

Free Throw Shooting. We only missed 4, which is good considering what happened the first two days.

Negatives

Rebounding. We didn't attack the glass that well and that may be as a result of the 3 games in 3 days. need to get better at that for the Big Dance.

Defense. We turned it up a little bit in the second half, but we can't let teams have their way inside like Larkins did and then let the other players drive with no help.

The officiating. We had four players with 4 fouls, they had none. It would be ok if they were decent refs who had bad games, but Lisa and Eric are known to be the worst refs in the ACC.

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