Hampton and Maryland Battling

[YardBirds13]

Really struggling tonight, the Terps are in a dogfight with Hampton.

Maryland has played really poorly, turning the ball over a ton, and not getting Gist any looks down low.

Hampton trails by 5 as I type this with just under 6 minutes to play.

[bryanman8]

Yuck. This West guy is killing us. Hopefully this is a wake-up call to these guys of how great they need to play every single night to return this team to real tournament caliber and compete with the best in the ACC this year. This bench really looks too thin as of right now and we're not smart enough to get the ball to Gist everytime like we should.

We should pull this one out though.

[YardBirds13]

Osby has missed all 6 of his free throws in the last 3 minutes.

Maryland has the lead by 3 with just over 3 to play.

[YardBirds13]

And One for Hampton! They are a free throw away from tieing the game with 2 and a half to go!

This is unbelievable.

[EddieO's21]

wow...just wow...this is awful

[YardBirds13]

Free throw is there and we are tied.

Gist is cramping up again pretty badly and has to leave with just under 2 to play. This is looking really dicey.

Vasquez will go to the line for 2.

Missed one! Unreal.

Second one is there and Terps lead by one.

[EddieO's21]

Hampton takes the freakin lead

[square634]

Dude, that guy is like my height. And apparently he is a worse free throw shooter.

Thank god ESPNews is showing the end of the game.

[The Goob]

Is the game on TV? I could not find it.

[YardBirds13]

This is getting unreal.

Hampton breaks the press easily for a dunk, but then Vasquez answers with a huge 3.

Hampton to the line for 2.

Misses the first one. Terps by 2 with 1 minute to go. Second one is missed as well.

Terps by 2 with the ball, 50 seconds to go. No more TO's for Gary, just used his last one.

[EddieO's21]

big three for vasquez...boy if they pull this out they are lucky with how awful they have played

[square634]

Is the game on TV? I could not find it.

It's on ESPNU, but if you get ESPNews they are also showing it now.

[Sports Guy]

Game over...Why was this game so close? That is ridiculous.

[EddieO's21]

well this hopefully is a good wake up call for the Terps...personally, I always like to have a close game to a nobody in the season somewhere to give a team a kick in the butt

hopefully this nonsense is now out of the way

[YardBirds13]

Well that should do it. Looks like the Terps should hold on to win.

However, they have some big issues. None of the big guys with Gist's exception look like they can score at all. Osby killed them with turnovers and free throws, he looks like nothing more than a defensive stopper.

Vasquez turned the ball over wayyyyy too much, but he did come throughwith the big 3 late in the game.

Let's just say if they play like this against UCLA (their likely opponent in the semis), they will get destroyed, whether or not UCLA has Collison.