The Maryland Terrapins are headed to another dance hall, still dancing thanks to Derik Queen’s ridiculous buzzer-beater to defeat a very feisty Colorado State team on Sunday.
Even if the “Crab Five” fall to Florida on Friday night, they’ve still reached the first half of “Sweet 16 or bust,” even if, as radio analyst Chris Knoche told the Junkies Monday, it took all 40 minutes to do it.
And, for a little while, it took the attention away from what Kevin Willard had said about now ex-athletic director Damon Evans earlier in the week…until Willard doubled down on that postgame.
“I think he's just frustrated. I just think he feels like he's going in there into a gunfight with a knife sometimes,” Knoche said. “I think he wants to be fully funded, as he said, and, I mean, he recognized this when he accepted the job as a basketball school, and most people recognize it as such, and I think he just wants to treat it that way. That’s not to dog football or anything like that, football's the tail that wags the dog, it’s a big deal and I get it – but Maryland football could have a phenomenal year next year and be and be the sixth best team in the Big Ten. It doesn't work the same way in basketball, so I think there's some frustration there. There's a part of me that wishes he hadn't said it, but he said it and that's kind of who he is.”
Listen to Knoche’s entire visit with the Junkies above!