With hopes of getting their first glimpse of four-star prospect Bruno Fernando, Maryland fans battled National Cherry Blossom Festival Parade traffic and the typical weekend Metro delays just to get to Verizon Center for Saturday's Capital Classic.
They were left disappointed, not by what Fernando did on the court but by the fact that he never left the bench. The 6-foot-10, 225-pound power forward from Angola, who played a post-graduate year at IMG Academy in Florida last season, sat out the game after banging knees with one of his U.S. teammates toward the end of practice Friday — a practice Fernando apparently dominated.