There is nothing pretty about scoring just forty-two points in the modern era of college basketball. No Dean Smith out there running his sickening, Carolina-blue, four-corner spread offense. Not even an opposing pair of menacing seven-footers swatting away all of Virginia’s shots.
Just bad, uninspiring, wretched basketball, plain and damn simple.
Virginia’s Assane Sene grabbed a career-high fifteen rebounds, but he also was credited with six costly turnovers in the loss. Mustapha Farrakhan, and Joe Harris led the Hoos with eight points each.
Maryland was on fire at times in this game, and finished the contest 7-15 from three-point-land, while the Hoos were just 4-17 from beyond the arch. The Terps were led by Adrian Bowie who had a season-high twenty-two points.
Tony Bennett’s Wahoos committed fifteen turnovers, to Maryland’s eleven in what was one sloppy, ugly hoops game. Virginia shot a pitiful 33.3% for the game, as Maryland shot an incredible 68% in the second half.
Yikes, at least National Football Signing Day is right around the corner, right?
Hoos fans, listen in tomorrow from 3-6 p.m as I sit in as guest host for Mac McDonald’s (almost) statewide radio show. Locally the show is available on WKAV (1400 AM), also on WLEE (990 AM) in Richmond, WHBG (1360 AM) in Harrisonburg, and WREL (1450 AM) in Lexington. Go Hoos!