Terps Ruin Whittington's Senior Day

Another trip down to the Tar Heel State and another win. A solid Terps effort and a few timely runs gave Maryland their 13th win the conference and 29th overall. Their 13-1 mark in the ACC matches their best ever and the 29 wins are the second most in program history. Now our one chance to get a share of the ACC title is to root for Ekud in their game against UNC. Either way we are a two seed, but it would be nice to put up a banner (Not as nice as an ACC Championship banner).

We play on Friday night at 6 in Greensboro and it looks like we are playing either BC or VT/Wake (winner of the coin toss). Either way that works in our favor as all three teams like to slow down the pace. A win gets us probably Ekud again and then hopefully a rematch with UNC. The key to Friday night's game is to put it away early as to rest the starters.

As for today's game, I think we played good but not great game. We took care of the ball and pounded it inside (I would have liked to see more, but that's me), but none of the guards shot the ball well and Marah and Kristi were missing wide open threes. I knew our perimeter defense would struggle and we have to be better against penetration. The zone helps us a little, but someone needs to fill the lane when they get by Kristi. Also, when we went up 19, I don't understand why the bench wasn't cleared. A win's a win, whether it's by 19 or by 7. At least the starters get some rest.

Congrats to Crystal who passed Monique Currie for 11th on the ACC scoring list as well as to Ashleigh for playing in the most games in Maryland history. I think she needs to play in 8 more to have the ACC record.