Word: terrapins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Today, having skillfully assembled one of the most talent-laden teams in college basketball, ole Lefty has turned center stage over to his Terrapin terrors. Hitting a hot 56% of their shots last week, the fast-breaking Terrapins rolled over Virginia 93-74 to register their 14th victory in a row-and make good on Driesell's promise to build his team into "the U.C.L.A. of the East." True to his word, Maryland as of last week was ranked No. 2 behind the West Coast's six-time national champions. "Sellin'," says Lefty, "that...
...difficult to envision how a Driesell team could lose at Cole Field House unless it came up against an incomparably superior opponent. The wall-shattering roar that bursts forth whenever anyone wearing a Maryland uniform does anything is almost unearthly. It begins as soon as the first Terrapin comes on the court for warmups, and it builds ceaselessly until the team leaves the floor two hours later. It is worth at least ten points against a good team, as much as twenty against someone like Western Kentucky...
Several weeks after he arrived from Davidson in the late winter of 1969, the M Club, composed of former Maryland letterwinners, and the Terrapin Club, to which anyone who is willing to donate $40 a year can belong, spent $594 for a full-page ad in the sports section of The Washington Post, for the sole purpose of attracting the top four high-school prospects in the Baltimore-Washington area...
Meanwhile, the Washington-Baltimore fans and press bought Lefty's scheme in its entirety. The field house was repainted. The Terrapin Club offered a gold Terrapin pin with an inlaid diamond, four season tickets to basketball and football games, and various parking privileges and ticket options to anyone who would make an annual donation of $1000 to the Maryland Educational Foundation for the purpose of athletic scholarships. Local automobile dealers donated 19 "courtesy cars" for use in recruiting and travel by Maryland coaches. And Driesell was installed as a prominent businessman in College Park. There is the Lefty Driesell...