Buzz Williams on how good his Maryland basketball team looks, NIL and running out of underwear

It’s been a “whirlwind spring and early summer for Buzz Williams. He abruptly moved from Texas to Maryland, built a new roster, hired a staff and swung back to Texas to renew his wedding vows with his wife.

“It was a memorable deal. I’d never been to a vow renewal. I hadn’t, to be transparent, I’d never even heard of the word,” he told Jon Rothstein (more from the interview here). “I just didn’t know that in year 25, 50 days before the vow renewal, I would move halfway across the country. So the timing of when we moved and when our children moved, and all of the different pieces that come in a transition, kind of centered around the vow renewal. But I would have never thought anything would have transpired in my career the way that it has. I was a junior college manager. I was an NAIA manager and from a town that still doesn’t have a stoplight. So all of this has been way more than I could have ever even dreamed.

“I wouldn’t have believed one syllable of that. I’ve been blessed way more than I deserve, not only professionally but personally.

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Rothstein asked Williams how good his Maryland team might be next season.

“I kind of go back and forth, you know? I think some of it, John—I don’t know if we’re great. Because we played six teams in the Big Ten last year at Texas A&M, so I have some familiarity. But in truth, that’s the depth of knowledge that I’m comfortable with competitively speaking, and I haven’t studied enough since I’ve been here on Big Ten because we’ve been trying to put together our roster. Do I think we’re great? I don’t know. I would say I don’t think we’re bad, but I don’t know if that means that we’re great.”

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