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Something has been irritating me all week...it has me more frustrated than the economy or the recent debacle of the Republican Party...you see...Saturday was torture for about 40 minutes in basketball time. The Maryland Terrapins (the winner of the 2002 national championship) have reached an all-time low. It is hard for me even to say, but the Terps were dominated by Duke on Saturday. 85 - 44! They honestly looked like a high-school team out there. Vasquez looked like he had 0% confidence that anybody else on the team could score a bucket. It was like a pick-up game where a really good player realizes he is screwed because he missed all his free throws to make it on the good team and was left to play with the 4 crappy players that NEVER make it on the first team. You know...one of those games where the good player on the crappy team doesn't dare pass it to his teammates, so he just drives into traffic, does a 180 in the air and throws it over his shoulder figuring this is the team's best chance to post a couple of points. What is with the Terps?!? They have one of the best coaches of all time in Gary Anderson. Is he struggling to recruit? Has he passed his prime? Can he possibly last another season like this without having a heart attack? All I know is that one of the reasons I always liked Maryland is you could never count them out in Cameron Indoor or the Dean Smith Center. I went into Saturday's game with this same attitude and came out of it wondering if it would ever be the same.