Two Pretty Great Quotes From A Pretty Great Maryland-UNC Game

That Maryland lost a close one to UNC is not the point. The point is that Maryland, a team of underclassmen thought to be at least a year away from anything, was able to push a star-studded, No. 5-ranked team to the brink. Bravo to that, and to the continued development of freshman seven-footer Alex Len, who basically took on UNC’s All-American frontcourt by himself. Anyway, two great quotes from the game that was. One, here’s what Mark Turgeon said after the game, which was punctuated by a John Henson garbage-time, buzzer-beating dunk: I didn’t like the dunk. Coach [Roy Williams] knows that. But we’re going to be good soon. The world goes round. And two, here’s UNC’s Kendrall Marshall’s postgame tweet: Maryland fans are the most… passionate fans in America. It’s unclear whether that was intended as a compliment or not, but Maryland should take it as one. And they should be happy with the loss too, if that’s possible, beca...