Well, I am going with the mega-upset: The North Carolina Tar Heels will hand the Clemson Tigers their first loss, which will basically make the College Football Playoff picture a complete mess.
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In his first game back from a broken hand, Paige scored 20 points and dished out five assists. But the Terrapins (6-1) hung around.
NO. 4 KANSAS 94, LOYOLA 61: Wayne Selden Jr. scored 18 points, Perry Ellis added 15 and Kansas used a big second-half run to rout Loyola in Cheick Diallo’s much-anticipated debut with the Jayhawks.
After Maryland tied the score at 69, the Tar Heels closed the game on a 20-12 run as Trimble, who was forced to play 38 minutes because of Maryland’s lack of backcourt depth, exhausted a bit.
After trailing by two points, Maryland missed 8 of its last 10 shots.
“He’s used to it”, Maryland coach Mark Turgeon said. The Terps committed 10 turnovers in the first 10 minutes of the game.
Maryland will be back at home on Friday night to take on Saint Francis.
I thought that Maryland would be very unsafe this year because I thought Layman would be a consistent contributor to this team and right now he looks like a role player off the bench.
As I noted in the preview, there is no way of knowing what kind of performance you will get from a player returning off an injury. “We were able to get out on the break and get a lot of fast break points”. “Kids like Marcus are so conscientious and care so much, but I had a feeling the little rascal would be pretty good”. Incredible crowd, incredible atmosphere and they played well.
Having improved down the stretch, Williams may be the 2nd best QB we’ve faced (depending on your opinion of DeShone Kizer), and he’ll bring a stable of receiver talent to challenge our secondary.
In his fourth season with the team, Fedora has led North Carolina to an 11-1 record and a spot in Saturday’s ACC championship game.
“Probably on the playground back in high school”, Paige said, adamant that he would have finished the play if the pass had been better.
This year, there have been fewer mistakes, and in turn, more resilience. Melo and Rasheed put on a show out there from distance.
“Kennedy pointed it out to me in the middle of a defensive possession!” noted hip-hop head Marcus Paige said with a laugh after the game.
The Heels’ nationally televised matchup against Maryland, which resulted in an 89-81 win for Williams and Co., was one of the biggest games of this college basketball season so far.
Clemson might have that ideal record, fancy No. 1 ranking and a serious Heisman contender in QB Deshaun Watson, but North Carolina could be the best opponent it plays all year.
Maryland: Trimble had eight turnovers…. “But I knew I had to overcome, and I couldn’t let it affect me anymore what it did at night”.
“[They wanted] to make a personal vendetta and get me out of my game”, said Sulaimon. “I just had to move on”. Unfortunately we lost, but my teammates wanted me to be aggressive. That, combined with the Terps first real road test, seemed to get to the rather inexperienced Terps club in terms of those who are playing together.
Welcome back, sports fans, to Throwback Thursday, a time to look upon our past with equal parts nostalgia, pride and a healthy dose of shame.
And the ninth-ranked Tar Heels have a tough matchup with a former conference foe – the second-ranked Maryland Terrpains.
The high-level game did the rest.
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Clemson tight end Jordan Leggett said players are drilling on ball protection this week, even doing extra laps if they drop a ball. But Fedora made it clear, an ACC Coastal Championship isn’t something the team is willing to settle for. “It was just fortunate for us that it was in our building”.
