Like most of the players and coaches on the 1993-94 Maryland men's basketball team, Keith Booth has vivid memories of the 84-83 overtime upset of 15th-ranked Georgetown at USAir Arena.
As the No. 3 Terps and unranked Hoyas get ready to play a regularly scheduled game for the first time since that Friday afternoon on Thanksgiving weekend, what brings back the biggest memory — and biggest laugh — for the third-year Loyola Maryland men's assistant coach was the impromptu pregame speech he gave his teammates.
It came after Maryland coach Gary Williams, then starting his fifth season back at his alma mater, had ripped into his players for what he thought was a lackadaisical warmup session two hours before the tip.