Monday Musings

Amazingly, we stayed at fifth in the AP Poll

Charlie Creme dropped us to a two seed in his latest bracketology with us going to Spokane. I really like this draw, but coach Park may have to check his emotions if we play Utah in the third round.

On the drive back I thought more about Saturday's game and I still couldn't believe we lost and how sick it made me feel. I hope this serves as a wake up call for the team as we have slept walked through the last few games. What disappointed me the most was that we didn't attack the basket. Yes, the refs weren't calling everything, but we helped their cause by not going inside against the zone. We all know that Joy Cheek and Crystal Thomas can't stop Laura and Crystal, so why didn't we dribble penetrate? Why did we settle for jumpers instead of creating contact and going to the line? Marah needs refind her game or maybe it's time to let Ashleigh start. Marah helps us when she can score from the outside, but her defense was not very good this weekend and if she isn't helping on defense then she needs to score. Yes, lack of bench preparation did hurt us, but Duke's energy is what killed us. The Crystal Langhorne and Laura Harper era at Maryland has six more games to go, if we plan on playing in all those games, the two of them should get touches in the paint 95% of the time we are on offense. Unless we find two other players who shoot nearly 65% from the floor.

Congrats is order for two Former Terps today. First, Kalika France and her teammates at Purdue won the Big Ten Title last night at the buzzer to make the tournament. And then, my favorite Benedict Arnold, Jeff Walz upset Rutgers in the Big East Tournament. Hopefully if we play Rutgers again, Coach Park will give Jeff a call for some pointers.