2009-2010 ACC Season Previews: Maryland

LCB believes that while teams have been playing games since the start of November the real college basketball season does not begin until conference play is in full gear. Over the next couple of weeks, we will preview each ACC team by remembering some of the conference's past players that may have gone forgotten in some circles.

Season Outlook: What the hell was this guy? Trapped in eternal basketball limbo as neither guard nor forward, neither Steve Francis nor Len Elmore, Nik Caner-Medley was more Terrance Morris than Len Bias and happily pulled off Maine's scrap heap by Coach Williams for four years of scowling, grunting, and bar fights. Nik once even claimed in a fit of passion, "I am from Maryland, and no one can beat me." Under Coach Gary Williams, Maryland has perpetually snagged unknowns from the recruiting world and turned paupers into princes of a rag-tag college town, College Park. At any one point in time Caner-Medley could vasilate between all-out baller and all-out bawler, giving opposing fans as much reason to hate his brash antics as they did his clutch threes. Given that MD is sporting an '09-10 team comprised almost completely of scrappers between 6'4" and 6'8", they will be channelling their inner-Medley's all season. Unfortunately, while I'm sure this team is from Maryland, I'm not so certain they can't be beaten.

Key Players: G Greivis Vasquez (Sr.)and G Sean Mosley (So.)
Top Newcomer: F Jordan Williams (Fr.) (And almost Lance Stephenson)


Record at Time of Posting: 6-3
Teach's Prediction: 5th in the regular season
Langston's Prediction: 5th in the regular season
Iceman AD's Prediction: 6th in the regular season

Key Games:
L Cincinnati 69-57
L Wisconsin 78-69
W Indiana 80-68
L Villanova 95-86
Florida State 1/10
@ Wake Forest 1/12
@ Boston College 1/16
North Carolina State 1/23
Miami (FL) 1/26
@ Clemson 1/31
North Carolina 2/7
Virginia 2/10
@ Duke 2/13
Georgia Tech 2/20
@ Virginia Tech 2/27