Baltimore Bullets

Sarah Kwak

March 17, 2008

Morgan State isn't the only Baltimore college team showing the nation that there is more than one basketball program in Maryland. Take the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). Thanks to a trio of transfers—senior guard Ray Barbosa (left), senior forward Cavell Johnson, and junior forward Darryl Proctor—the Retrievers snapped a skid of five years without a winning record by finishing 21--8 and atop the America East Conference. If UMBC beats Hartford on Saturday in the conference tournament final, it will make its first trip to the Big Dance in 22 years as a Division 1 program. Also doing Crabtown proud was Loyola, four years removed from a 1--27 record. Now in their fourth season under former Maryland assistant Jimmy Patsos, the Greyhounds went 18--13 and reached the semifinals of the MAAC tournament.