Just Win Baby… Please!

Here we are.
Just hours from the biggest game of the season for us fans.  But we all need to remember it’s the biggest game of some of the players’ lives.  In the final day of the regular season, the Terps have it all in front of them.  Win a game against a rival on their [...]

The Case for Memphis

Most sportswriters are busy dissecting the merits of the Kansas Jayhawks and the Memphis Tigers in an effort to hypothesize who will emerge victorious tomorrow night. I say, who cares about the handicapping? The real question is which team is worth your rooting support?
The University of Kansas draws its basketball bloodlines straight from [...]

What The Soup Is All About!

I’ve been impressed folks with the intelligent discussions regarding the analysis of this year’s underachieving team and the outlook and strategy for next year. It’s so interesting to read the opinions that don’t start off with ‘this guy sucks’, ‘fire this guy’, ‘they are pathetic’, etc. Thanks to posters Gerry, ricksterps, frustrated fan, [...]

Strengths & Weaknesses

Okay, now that we’ve had nearly 24 hours to vent, analyze, etc., I was asked to write a strengths and weaknesses column for Roster Magazine. First, though, it’s been interesting reading the comments on Wednesday night’s game. There was a lot of blame and not too much praise going on. “Vazquez and [...]

Profiling the Field – Maryland

Editor’s Note: The following article will appear in the March Issue of Roster Magazine. To our regular readers, please don’t accuse me of jinxing the Terps. I had a deadline!
Maryland
17-9 (7-4)
RPI 50
Seed #3-10
Seed Explanation
Yeah, that’s right. I went with an eight seed spread for the Terps Tournament destination. With a total [...]

Butler Did It. Terps Did Not.

What an awful day.
It started by me going to FIVE different sports bars in Chicago to look for the game. None of them had it. Why on Earth would a sports bar choose not to buy the Direct TV package for the NCAA Tournament? It took me an hour and half to find the game.
By [...]

Winning U-G-L-Y

Stephen Curry got star treatment by the officials today. Make no mistake. He is a legit player. But that call against Ibekwe that fouled him out? Pleeeaaase. I thought I was watching Dwayne Wade in the NBA Finals last year. The kid can shoot, but he has not earned that yet.
Regardless, Maryland cannot expect to [...]

The Most Wonderful Time of the Year

This is Turtle Soup’s virgin NCAA Tournament.  After three seasons, we have finally popped our Tournament cherry.    When I wrote my first piece in October 2004, I predicted that the defending ACC Champion Maryland Terrapins would go to the Final Four.
Who could have imagined that it would take three years (and three different websites) [...]

Out of Sync, But We’re Dancing

This was just one of those games that you kept looking at the clock and the hoping the game would end sooner. Every one in Terp Nation just wanted the “W” and you could just feel that the players played that way too.
That was a brutal final eight minutes of the first half wasn’t it? [...]

Must Wins and Tolerable losses

Happy Valentine’s Day. The holiday means that even though the game is actually on national TV tonight, I likely won’t be able to watch it.
Regardless, we have six games left before the end of the season and as I see it, here are the wins we MUST have in order to get off the bubble:
Must [...]