After a three-year renovation that went $100 million over budget, nearly 600 students will flood into the school for the arts on Wednesday.

Now that we have entered the month of February, the heart of the ACC schedule is in full swing. While Wednesday’s action features a half-dozen teams in conference play, the main attraction is obviously the rivalry rematch between Duke and Maryland in College Park.

It was roughly around this time last year when the Washington Post decided to publish a three-part expose on Maryland head coach Gary Williams and his program’s decline since winning the National Championship in 2002. The Maryland faithful were growing weary of a team that had so recently won it all, yet had missed the NCAA Tournament in three of the last five seasons. My, how things have changed. Thanks to a veteran lineup of…

After twenty minutes of standing in line in the snow listening to buzzed twenty-something Duke and Georgetown alums try their best to talk trash without ever actually mentioning the game — or even the sport — about to be played, I don’t think anyone could have excused the neutral fan from sitting this one out. You’d be hard-pressed to find two fan bases that express more entitlement than these two. After all, one Final Four…

Maryland’s Greivis Vasquez skies over Wake Forest centerDavid Weaver. (AP Photo/John Bazemore) Wake Forest guard L.D. Williams’s vaunted defense couldn’t stop Maryland’s Greivis Vasquez from picking up 22 points in last night’s big upset over Wake Forest — a win that cleared the Terps for the conference championship and redeemed a close loss against the Demon Deacons earlier in the month. So what made the difference between last night’s 75-64 Maryland triumph and Wake…