Maryland was picked to finish near the top of the Big Ten last season but had a losing record and missed the postseason altogether. Kevin Willard, who reached the NCAA tournament in year one with the Terps, enters his third season in College Park.
In October of 1975, at the end of a long tour of Britain, Billy Connolly came to Ireland to perform his comedy act here for the first time. The Troubles were at their height, and he had been warned by many that his safety could not be guaranteed. “They asked me,” he tells a journalist at a Dublin press conference, “so I thought what the hell.”
Fifth-year Virginia Tech coach Mike Young will lean heavily on a backcourt featuring starters Hunter Cattoor and Sean Pedulla, backed up by a blossoming MJ Collins.Questions loom in the frontcourt, h