The Gavinski Award is a weekly award given to the team with the worst performance in college basketball over the past seven days. It is presented in honor of J.P. Gavinski, the most useless player in Division 1 basketball.
Gary Williams
Another year, another whine from Gary Williams. The insecure, combative - yet somehow beloved by the national sports media - coach of the perenially overrated Maryland Terrapins complained this week that the regular season champion of the ACC should be considered the "ACC Champion" and get an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. Conveniantly, the Terps are in first place in the ACC right now. Gary wouldn't be saying this if his team was in its usual place in the bottom half of the ACC, since "elite" Maryland has had exactly one winning ACC record in the last six years.
We hate Maryland for many, many reasons. And one of those reasons is that Gary bitches about something every year, in an effort to excuse his team's performance. Whether it be complaining that his overrated 2006 team didn't get into the NCAA Tournament over more deserving Missouri Valley teams, or crying that the BB&T used to be a national tournament after his team got housed by George Washington for a second straight year, Gary is always good for a couple sniveling, contempt-filled quotes. Williams has proven over the years that he is a classless, whining punk of a coach who is too afraid to play mid-majors and thinks his program has joined the UNC-Kansas-Kentucky elite college basketball fraternity after a flash in the pan run of success they had at the beginning of the decade. This Gavinski's for you, Gary.
