Marissa's Unbelievable Performance Leads Terps to Elite 8

It's been almost 18 hours since the game and I am still in awe of what I saw yesterday. The 42 points were the third most by a Maryland men's or women's player. Marissa refused to let the team lose. As Wirth was dominating us, Marissa went to the coaches and asked to cover her. She's the MVP of the team and it's about time people mention her in the same vein as Maya Moore.

For most of the game yesterday, I was having Stanford flashbacks as Vandy was making shot after shot. Every time we would come back, The Dores would sink another bucket and with the way we were playing D I figure the trip to Raleigh would be a short one. In the end, the defense clamped down when it need to and Vanderbilt didn't haven an answer for #25.

And now it's on the Elite 8 again with a match up again Benedict Arnold aka Jeff Walz. After a failure of a season in 2007, he decided to jump ship instead of help us get back to the promise land. Since then we have only lost 8 games, and Coach Park has helped fix most of our defensive issues. I hope we prove to Walz that he made a mistake.

Things I liked
- Marissa. 42 and 15? Are you kidding me?
- Kim's effort on the glass. Not the tallest player and limited by her knee injury she pulled down a career-high 12 rebounds. She gets better each time I watch her.
- The defensive lockdown. Over the last 26:28 of the game, Maryland outscored Vandy, 63-41. When we needed stops we got them.

Things I would like to see more
- Better composure. We came out at the start of both halves flat and disinterested. i was really disappointed that after we cut the gap to 3 at half, we let Vandy rebuild the lead again. Teams aren't going to roll over for us anymore.
- Production from players not named Coleman and Toliver. Kizer hasn't played like the ACC Rookie of the Year the entire postseason. Marah's picture showed up on my carton of milk this morning.
- Defense. Going under screens and getting blown past on defense, isn't good. We cannot be afraid to challenge shots. If it's middle of the second half and our posts don't at least 1 foul it means we aren't challenging shots.
- Officiating. I think we got the D crew as I couldn't tell what was a foul and what wasn't. KT's charge in the first half was terrible and then at some points the refs would let them play and then again start calling touch fouls.

Back tomorrow with a preview after scouting who we could play in the Final Four.