Terps Overcome Emotions, Overtime and Seminoles to stay perfect at home

4 seconds, that's all remained between Maryland and a perfect record at home. And that one play showed how much Crystal Langhorne has grown in her four years as a player. With the clock running down and the ball fed into the post, Crystal faced a double-team and instead of forcing it up (freshman and sophomore year) or turning it over (junior year), she calmly turned, passed it to Marissa, who went strong to the bucket and tied the game at 76-all. After a last second miss by FSU, it was on to overtime and just like that an eight-point deficit with 3 minutes left was gone.

It was an emotional day at Comcast as the ladies were crying before the ceremony and much of that emotion continued deep into the game until the team realized that they may lose the game. Full credit goes to the team for digging down deep and getting the crucial stops they needed and make the post game ceremony filled with jubilation.

I never got worried as I knew we would get the stops we needed, but at certain times Florida State seemed to just throw the ball up and it would go in.

It also seemed that the senior filled line up confused not only FSU but ourselves as the post players weren't sure which part of the zone to cover and thus left FSU for 3.

I understand why we played zone today, but I think at certain times we are over rotating which allows the opposition to complete a skip pass to a wide open shooter. Teams with more than two good three-point shooters could hurt us down the line.

I was a little disappointed that we had an 11-point lead and let Florida State score 14 straight to take a three-point lead. During that stretch, we had two charges, two turnovers and a missed three. Those aren't great possessions.

We also have to stop the turnovers. I understand that for some reason traveling was a focus of the refs today, but we still forced some bad passes.

We have to get better on defense against teams with mostly guards as we seem to get exposed. Plus we were hesitant to attack the post over the top.

Another week off until North Carolina State. Our only hope to win the regular season title is to have UNC lose their next two and for us to beat State.