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...maybe we'll get some recognition instead of criticism," he said after the championship game, and when the ratings came out on Monday. Maryland had cracked...
...season, especially when you've already been whipped in your first conference game. Yet it is difficult to envision how a Driesell team could lose at Cole Field House unless it came up against an incomparably superior opponent. The wall-shattering roar that bursts forth whenever anyone wearing a Maryland uniform does anything is almost unearthly. It begins as soon as the first Terrapin comes on the court for warmups, and it builds ceaselessly until the team leaves the floor two hours later. It is worth at least ten points against a good team, as much as twenty against someone...
...even if Maryland fares poorly over the regular season, the team will have a reprieve in the form of the ACC playoff in March. Last year a North Carolina team that won the League title over a 14 game season lost it to South Carolina in a three game knockout tournament. Instead of going to the NCAA playoffs, where the other regular-season conference champions were, the Tarheels had to settle for the NIT at New York, which they won easily...
Driesell is well aware of the investment that Maryland alumni, fans and athletic officials have made in him, and consequently, leaves nothing to chance. The top school boy prospect in the nation last winter, 6-9 Tom Roy, plays for the Maryland freshmen now, along with two other high school All-Americans. There is an academic counselor on the athletic department staff, although a quarter of Driesell's squad is majoring in either recreation or physical education. And the team is incredibly well-publicized. Since it is situated between Baltimore and Washington. Maryland attracts press coverage from both cities...
Half of the Maryland schedule will be televised, three of the games nationally. Driesell, besides his weekly television show, does post-game radio interviews for WMAL. The game program runs to 140 pages, and even the beer ads mention the basketball team. There are 13 pictures of Driesell inside. The man is omnipresent...