THE OFFICIAL RUTGERS-MARYLAND PREDICTION THREAD

[bac2therac]

Maryland 75 RUTGERS 67

 

[LeapinLou]

Wow, that's probably more than the point spread will be. Bad matchup in your opinion with the size advantage they will have at the basket?

I was hoping they would win @OSU and come in overconfident. But instead worst case scenario, losing a heartbreaker. Maryland will have energy on Sunday.

 

[toby83]

i think we will be 8 pt dogs

 

[Treaster51]

Maryland coming off deflating loss with 12:00 start time. Rutgers more motivated. Rutgers wins 74-70

 

[bac2therac]

Wow, that's probably more than the point spread will be. Bad matchup in your opinion with the size advantage they will have at the basket?

I was hoping they would win @OSU and come in overconfident. But instead worst case scenario, losing a heartbreaker. Maryland will have energy on Sunday.

I think its a bad matchup and they can defend, going to need 50 combined from ace/dylan to win....for RU to win this game needs to be in the uppers 70s and 80s range

they certainly are not unbeatable...they have struggled even with some mediocre teams and blew a big lead at Ohio State. I think they are very balanced and have guys at every position

 

[gregkoko]

Worried about their bigs just feasting on us. Our defense is finally rounding into form. I think we come up short

MD 73
Rutgers 68

 

[RC66_rivals315488]

RU 76
MD 72

Motivating locker room speech: now looking like we are getting passed the point where we risked getting shut out of the B1G tournament; and with lots of ranked opponents in rest of schedule; so we have an opportunity to keep winning to work our way back into NCAA tourny conversation; and that is certainly possible. But we must start today.

 

[Mr. Magoo1]

We usually play well there but I think we get beat up inside

Maryland 81
Rutgers 73

 

[Loyal_2RU]

Rutgers: a little more
Maryland: a little less

 

[BillyC80]

All of MD’s 6 losses were in close games, 5 of them on the road and 1 at home (against a ranked Marquette team).

In all of their losses they were beaten in the second half (or in the case of NW, in OT).

So, if we can keep it close in the first half (within 6 or less), we can win a close game.

RU 71
MD 70

 

[BigEastPhil]

If I’m Willard, I pound the ball inside to Queen and to Reese.

Somerville / Dortch and Martini will not be able to defend them.

 

[RU-ROCS]

Maryland 75 RUTGERS 67

Agreed with this spread. This is a bad match up even for a healthy RU. MD's two 6'-10" bigs lead their offense and we have no depth at center. Expect them to pound the ball inside. MD 80 - RU 70

 

[BOCA93]

Seems like Reese has been at MD forever. He and Queen are a handful inside. Both averaging around 15/9 per game. Lathan, Grant and Martini will need to step up. RU 73 MD 70

 

[toby83]

people just talk about their bigs, but their PG from Belmont is a stud and shoots 41% from three in-conference

 

[LeapinLou]

If I’m Willard, I pound the ball inside to Queen and to Reese.

Somerville / Dortch and Martini will not be able to defend them.

My daughter goes to UMD so I've watched a fair amount of their games. The guy that worries me is Gillespie. If we try to pack the interior to contend with Queen and Reese, Gillespie will torch us. We're going to have to rotate a lot of guys and maintain defensive pressure.

 

[RUDiddy777]

RU 80 - UMD 70

Though I’d feel better if they beat tOSU.

 

[fluoxetine]

Maryland 80, Rutgers 70

 

[RutgersClassof2004]

Rutgers 80-Maryland 70. Rutgers wins this one.

 

[dfr1966]

RU 84-80

 

[RutgersClassof2004]

PJ Hayes dropping bombs in College Park

 

[dark_check]

Maryland 76-65

 

[RUforester72]

Ace beats Queen?

 

[Degaz-RU]

people just talk about their bigs, but their PG from Belmont is a stud and shoots 41% from three in-conference

This is my concern. Reese and Queen are a mismatch for sure, but their three guards/wings can light it up from outside. Gillespie, Rice, and Miguel have combined to hit 145 threes out of 365 attempts (spread about equally among them) for an average of 39.7%.

MD shoots 48.1% from the field overall, and 37% as a team from 3-pt range, and their five starters average between 15.0 and 11.3 ppg, so any one of them can kill us. So it's the "inside-out" aspect of their team that really scares me, because if we try and double the post, we open things up from beyond the arc and they can start raining threes.

MD also plays very good defense, giving up an average of 65.87 ppg overall, and 71.92 in Big Ten games.

Maryland 80
Rutgers 73

 

[NickRU714]

RU 76
MD 72

Motivating locker room speech: now looking like we are getting passed the point where we risked getting shut out of the B1G tournament; and with lots of ranked opponents in rest of schedule; so we have an opportunity to keep winning to work our way back into NCAA tourny conversation; and that is certainly possible. But we must start today.

 

[BillyC80]

If I’m Willard, I pound the ball inside to Queen and to Reese.

Somerville / Dortch and Martini will not be able to defend them.

A challenge for sure Phil, but we did pretty well against UM with their two bigs and we could have (maybe should have) won that game even without Dylan. With Dylan at near full strength we have a decent chance to pull the upset, imo.

 

[Knight Owl]

If ever there was a game to come up with some kind of help defense where you don’t leave perimeter guys too wide open it is this one. If you front the bigs you need help if they lob over the top and if you’re playing behind them you need guys crashing down to help in the paint.

 

[rudad02]

If Ace & Dylan are cookin & we play the best defense we can I wouldn't bet against RU. If we make the Big Tourney & are playing like that I don't think anyone will want anything to do with us.

 

[bac2therac]

This is my concern. Reese and Queen are a mismatch for sure, but their three guards/wings can light it up from outside. Gillespie, Rice, and Miguel have combined to hit 145 threes out of 365 attempts (spread about equally among them) for an average of 39.7%.

MD shoots 48.1% from the field overall, and 37% as a team from 3-pt range, and their five starters average between 15.0 and 11.3 ppg, so any one of them can kill us. So it's the "inside-out" aspect of their team that really scares me, because if we try and double the post, we open things up from beyond the arc and they can start raining threes.

MD also plays very good defense, giving up an average of 65.87 ppg overall, and 71.92 in Big Ten games.

Maryland 80
Rutgers 73

This is the best defensive team we will have played this year

 

[RU_SAM]

RU 82
MD 78

Why not us?

 

[RUJMM78]

Rutgers has the two best players but Maryland has more scoring threats.Maryland runs a far better half court offense.Both teams are mediocre 3 point shooters and have difficulty putting teams away because of scoring droughts.I agree that Bailey and Harper need to score at least 50 points.Rutgers needs to limit scoring within 3' of the basket.I expect plenty fouls to be called.

This definitely is a must win for Rutgers but the team lacks a consistent third scoring threat .
Maryland 77 Rutgers 71

 

[Waldo73]

Md 80 RU 71

 

[RUskoolie]

We just played Michigan who had two excellent bigs and I think we handled them well and had a chance to win...and that was without Dylan.

A healthy Dylan makes that much of a difference. Somehow I think we win this. It's a big game if we all want to dream.

 

[mikeyoc]

If someone besides our stars decides to score 15 or so, we have a shot. Otherwise....

 

[93RUDoc]

Rutgers 74
Maryland 72
Rutgers gets contributions from Hayes /Martini who have their shooting touch back

 

[RidgewoodKnight13]

Rutgers 81 - Maryland 73

 

[ruhoopshq]

Maryland about to be 13-2 at home after Sunday

** Fingers crossed **

 

[ruhoopshq]

Rutgers has the two best players but Maryland has more scoring threats.Maryland runs a far better half court offense.Both teams are mediocre 3 point shooters and have difficulty putting teams away because of scoring droughts.I agree that Bailey and Harper need to score at least 50 points.Rutgers needs to limit scoring within 3' of the basket.I expect plenty fouls to be called.

This definitely is a must win for Rutgers but the team lacks a consistent third scoring threat .
Maryland 77 Rutgers 71

Just need J-Will or Acuff to go ballistic and score, they seem to be the third wheel for Rutgers

 

[red sail]

Send the slashers in Derkack, JWill, J'Michael and attack their bigs to draw fouls on Queen and Reese. Thornton and Royal were effective doing that late in the 2nd half last night.
RU 82 - UMD 76

 

[RAC93]

Rutgers - 77
Maryland - 72

 

[scarletnewyorker2006]

RU 68, Maryland 66