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Full Court Preview of UConn vs Maryland
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Zemek knows his stuff, and really excellent preview. Nice line: "It’s absurd, isn’t it? It’s Connecticut."
Still not sure about any ideas that in this likely up-tempo game that Maryland will need to post around 91 points to beat UConn because the possibility seems so remote. But I think he's right that MD's hope will be to try to extend their very good perimeter D to keep UConn from banging in 9 or 10 threes, but UConn will also be ready for that strategy to feed it back inside for buckets for Stewart and Tuck and probably some fouls for Jones and Howard, who average 2.7 and 2.1 fouls per game, and the Terps really don't have other great options in the post, though Pfirman will probably see some minutes. And on D, probably UConn will be trying to emulate the 2nd half of the Dayton game rather than the 1st against a somewhat similar team.
Still not sure about any ideas that in this likely up-tempo game that Maryland will need to post around 91 points to beat UConn because the possibility seems so remote. But I think he's right that MD's hope will be to try to extend their very good perimeter D to keep UConn from banging in 9 or 10 threes, but UConn will also be ready for that strategy to feed it back inside for buckets for Stewart and Tuck and probably some fouls for Jones and Howard, who average 2.7 and 2.1 fouls per game, and the Terps really don't have other great options in the post, though Pfirman will probably see some minutes. And on D, probably UConn will be trying to emulate the 2nd half of the Dayton game rather than the 1st against a somewhat similar team.
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