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Sweet vindication for Terps.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

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| April 01, 2002 | Lyon, Bill | COPYRIGHT 2002 Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

ATLANTA _ You've got the best talent. That's what Maryland was told all along and at every turn. Everyone seemed to agree on that.

Except it was said more as accusation than assessment.

It wasn't so much a compliment as a demand for proof. It was a dare. Inherent was the suggestion that for all their glittering talent the Terps would find a way to self-destruct. They had a good thing going, but they'd blow it. Wait and see.

Monday night, vindication arrived, and it was sweet beyond believing.

Maryland won the national championship of college baskets, pulling away from game and gallant but eventually earth-bound Indiana, and winning with a score that looks like something from a generation ago: 64-52.

At that point in the game when they had tended to be susceptible to a case of the shakes, the Terps held together and played with power and purpose. They have seemed to play better from behind than from in front. Last night, though, there was no meltdown.

The Hoosiers, those implausible dragon-slayers of Duke ...

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