The Terps made easy work of the lowly Miami Hurricanes last night in College Park.  Before last night’s game I felt that Maryland would win, but I didn’t think it would be that easy.  Maryland is coming into its own at just the right time this year.  Here’s what I learned from the beat down of the McClintonless Canes:

• Landon Milbourne is a stud.  He was 7/10 from the field and finished with 16PTS and 5RB against a tough, physical Miami front court.  The Brothers Barry were talking him up like he was NBA material toward the end of the game.
• Speaking of the Brothers Barry, is it really appropriate to have them both announcing the same game?  Their banter sounded like dinner conversation at some lame family gathering. ”Interesting point John, would you please pass the dinner rolls?”   They actually went so far as to trot out family pictures.  At one point, Drew Barry compared Greivis to Larry Bird.  I love Greivis and all, but come on, couldn’t ESPNU get a couple of pros to do this game?
• This game was the best game of Jordan Williams’s short career.  8PTS and 6RB might not sound like a sexy stat line, but he did it against Dawayne Collins, one of the bigger power forwards in the ACC.  Williams also succeeded in keeping Collins off the offensive glass, which was no small feat, and took him off his game to the point where he was in foul trouble and sat for 16 minutes.  Williams is starting to look like the missing piece that completes Maryland’s puzzle as a legitimate contender.
• Dawayne Collins is a big dude but he’s slow.  He needs to learn how to get his body under control, and he needs to learn that you can’t jump over the back of another player to get a rebound.  That’s an “over-the-back foul”.  It’s in the rulebook.  Look it up.
• To say that Miami is poorly coached is like saying that Baltimore has nasty strip clubs.  It’s blatantly obvious, but nobody knows what to do to improve it.  Miami spent the first half turning the ball over 14 times and leaving Maryland shooters wide open, and then they proceeded to do more of the same in the second half with no adjustments.  Frank Haith was seriously outclassed last night.
• Interesting point from the AP: “Combined with an 88-64 win over North Carolina State on Saturday, Maryland has recorded successive 20-point victories in the conference for the first time since February 2003.”  After last night’s game I was thinking that I couldn’t remember a time when we had back-to-back ACC blowouts like this.  Maybe that’s because my long term memory only goes back eight days.
• Maryland is suddenly an outside shooting threat.  Don’t tell anyone, but since the W&M game the Terps have been taking what the defense gives them.  Last night they were 7/15 (46%) from beyond the arc.  Keep playing zone, ACC opponents, please stay in that zone.
• The press seemed to work last night against an inferior opponent.  I don’t know if that’s a result of good coaching on Maryland’s part or bad coaching on Miami’s part, but it did work.  Don’t count on it against Clemson.
• It was a quiet 16 PTS and 9 AST for Greivis last night.  He did what he needed to do to win the game.  We only saw one Greivis Shimmy.  Only one behind the back pass.  I guess he’s saving his mojo for Sunday night.

Maryland has taken care of some crucial must win games before heading into the maelstrom that is the rest of the ACC schedule.  I feel great about where the team is right now.  The true test comes this Sunday at Littlejohn Coliseum.