How is Maryland #1 in recruiting right now?

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Josh_Ag99
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2:17p, 4/15/26
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https://247sports.com/season/2026-basketball/overallteamrankings/

Buzz Williams just went 12-21 at Maryland. How are they #1 in recruiting? It's gotta be more than NIL money.
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2:32p, 4/15/26
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You don't just commit to Maryland to play basketball for Buzz Williams.

You commit to #getbetter



That means getting better at shaking hands, changing tires. Perfecting small talk on long distance phone calls. Establishing a consistent and unique signature and definitely improving your reading skills.
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Bunk Moreland
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2:39p, 4/15/26
Unfortunately the sips will overtake them when Marcus Spears' kid commits to them.
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Seven Costanza
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4:32p, 4/15/26
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Thank you notes are written and mailed to the players after recruiting calls. Modern players really respond to that sort of thing.
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Dimond1968
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4:33p, 4/15/26
Buzz couldn't or wouldn't recruit here but is now going nuts.
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In reply to Josh_Ag99 • 5:05p, 4/15/26
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Josh_Ag99 said:
https://247sports.com/season/2026-basketball/overallteamrankings/

Buzz Williams just went 12-21 at Maryland. How are they #1 in recruiting? It's gotta be more than NIL money.


Let buzz go. We got we want.

Recruits probably can't shoot free throw or threes.
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MarcAg
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In reply to Josh_Ag99 • 5:14p, 4/15/26
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Josh_Ag99 said:
https://247sports.com/season/2026-basketball/overallteamrankings/

Buzz Williams just went 12-21 at Maryland. How are they #1 in recruiting? It's gotta be more than NIL money.

Its #1 in portal + HS recruiting which is kind of a weird thing to lump together. It's also super early in the portal. He also benefited from getting a top 12 HS player that was probably going to Maryland regardless of who was coaching.

Buzz was not one to try terribly hard to drum up money for NIL, which you have to do at Texas A&M. Bucky wants to be out int he community and meeting everyone and selling A&M basketball and himself. Buzz is fortunate that Maryland is a basketball school and he doesn't really have to go ask for the money.
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In reply to Bunk Moreland • 5:15p, 4/15/26
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Bunk Moreland said:
Unfortunately the sips will overtake them when Marcus Spears' kid commits to them.

This is 2026 class and Spears is 2027, unless he is reclassifying.
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6:54p, 4/15/26
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Bunk Moreland
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In reply to MarcAg • 7:27p, 4/15/26
Oh, gotcha.
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In reply to GCP12 • 10:47p, 4/15/26
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GCP12 said:


Pickemup!
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In reply to Josh_Ag99 • 6:23a
Buzz is a piece of work. He refused to do NIL here. Had a terrble year at Maryland and guess what. He is now doing NIL.
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8:33a
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"Refused to do NIL here" and "now doing NIL" is such a weird way to phrase the situation.

He did NIL here, do we think the players were playing for free? Or that highly sought after transfers like Payne, Phelps, Dennis, etc. just liked his vibes?

Buzz was "doing NIL" here, he just wasn't going to go around begging for more money. And then he was rubbing people the wrong way with how he was spending it so didn't get as much as he could have.

Maryland's coach left them for Villanova and basically made them sound broke on the way out, so Maryland is giving him a much bigger purse to work with without him doing anything different than he did here.
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The Collective
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8:54a
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I hope Baba Oladotun enjoys learning to miss shots in the most rebounding efficient manner possible.
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