TERRAPINS BASKETBALL PREVIEW
For a long time I’ve been putting it on Twitter and just kind of counting down.
It’s coming quick. EVAN SM OTRYCZ , TER R A PI NS MEN ’S BASK ETBA L L FO RWA R D
A NEW BEGINNING By Aaron Kasinitz @AaronKazreports Senior staff writer
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n the hours leading up to Terrapins men’s basketball home games last season, before thousands of spectators and several television crews poured into Comcast Center, forward Evan Smotrycz had Gary Williams Court to himself. ¶ Opposing teams hadn’t arrived at the facility yet, and the Terps were napping in the locker room or munching on pregame meals. But Smotrycz, serv-
ing an NCAA-mandated year on the bench after transferring from Michigan, had time on his hands. ¶ Sometimes joined by fellow transfer guard Varun Ram or student managers and other times alone, Smotrycz would spend hours taking hundreds of shots at the rim and pounding the ball into the floor, causing an echo to fill the vacant, almost 18,000seat arena. STORY CONTINUES P. 2