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Virginia and Maryland Battling for Top Basketball Recruits
When Maryland left the ACC for the Big Ten in 2014, the historic rivalry between Virginia and Maryland essentially came to an end. The Cavalier and Terrapin men’s basketball teams have met just two times since then, with UVA prevailing both times in College Park. For the most part, the epic hardwood battles between these two archenemies are no more.
That has not prevented these two basketball programs from developing a new rivalry in a different setting: the recruiting trail.
Former Seton Hall head coach Kevin Willard was hired as Maryland’s new men’s basketball head coach in March and he immediately hit the recruiting trail hard, extending offers to nearly 40 prospects in the class of 2023. While Willard has cast a wide net, Tony Bennett is nearly the opposite, honing in on a smaller number of players and actively pursuing each of them.
Bennett and Willard have overlapped on three key targets in the 2023 recruiting class and reports also indicate that there are several common players in the class of 2024 that both coaches are contacting already.
Read entire article here: https://www.si.com/college/virginia/basketball/virginia-and-maryland-battling-for-top-basketball-recruits
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