COLLEGE PARK, Md. \u2014 Buzz Williams took some time to address the big picture of a season gone wrong.<\/p>\n
In his first campaign at Maryland, the Terrapins are 9-14, 2-10 in Big Ten play. That’s even after a victory at Minnesota on Sunday \u2014 one that was followed by some online debate over his postgame accessibility.<\/p>\n
So in his news conference Tuesday, Williams held himself accountable.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhatever was going on on the internet that said I didn’t want to talk to the media, I don’t know. I have not tried to dodge anything relative to the results. I\u2019ve coached 19 years as a head coach. I\u2019m completely aware of how good Maryland is, and how disappointing our season has been,” Williams said. “Our staff is continuing to study and figure out ways for improvement, but our system going forward will be more sustainable.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Terrapins already have four losses by at least 30 points.<\/p>\n
Williams took over after Kevin Willard left for the Villanova job. This season went downhill in a hurry, and leading scorer Pharrel Payne hasn\u2019t played since injuring a leg in mid-December.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have to do a better job in our decisions. We have to do a better job in our evaluations,” Williams said. “We can\u2019t control the injuries. That\u2019s not justification for our lack of success.\u201d<\/p>\n
Beyond the poor performance on the court, there’s been a sense Williams hasn’t connected well enough with his new fan base \u2014 an issue that’s important in an era when players come and go so quickly.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have never said no, unless it impacted what I needed to do on my job,\u201d Williams said. \u201cSo I apologize for those that don’t think they know me, or whoever these fans are. I’m not hiding anything.\u201d<\/p>\n
Maryland hosts Iowa on Wednesday night. <\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s not an excuse or justification for our lack of success, other than we have to do better and we will do better,\u201d Williams said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COLLEGE PARK, Md. \u2014 Buzz Williams took some time to address the big picture of a season gone…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":595727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3723],"tags":[7,319,217,231,772,1544,2148],"class_list":{"0":"post-595726","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-college","10":"tag-college-basketball","11":"tag-ncaa","12":"tag-ncaa-basketball","13":"tag-ncaab","14":"tag-wires-bot"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116049409657280050","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/595727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}