Is there a parallel between the coaching styles of Maryland's last Coach Williams (Gary) and the new one (Buzz). Former Terps big man Dave Neal thinks so.

Neal, the starting center on the 2009 NCAA Tournament team, joins Fear the Podcast this week to discuss:

- The Terps' team

- How the Kevin Willard era ended

-- Hiring Buzz Williams and similarities between Buzz and Gary Williams

-- How to get more former Maryland players involved with the program

-- Him joining the Shell Shock Maryland alumni team in an operations role, as they get set to compete in this summer's The Basketball Tournament

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InsideMDSports is excited to introduce a new Maryland basketball podcast to our coverage called "Fear the Podcast," hosted by Matt Modderno.

Fear the Podcast will bring you interviews with former and current Maryland players as well as analysis on games, recruiting, and transfer portal additions. Host Matt Modderno is a 2010 graduate of the University of Maryland’s Philip Merrill College of Journalism and lifelong Maryland fan. He co-hosts the Bleav in Wizards podcast with former Washington Wizard Jahadi White, and has also contributed to various media outlets including Bullets Forever, ESPN Radio, the Mid-Atlantic Sports Network, DraftExpress, FanSided, WizardsXTRA, and Hoopville.net.

In the first episode, new Maryland basketball forward Elijah Saunders joins Fear the Podcast to talk about why he committed to Maryland, what he was looking for in a team and a coach, and what fans should expect from him this season. He talked about influences on his game, what he wants to improve on this year, and what he'll be working on in the offseason. Plus, we close with some lighter questions to get to know him off the court.

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It's been two weeks since Buzz Williams arrived at Maryland In that time, the entire Terps basketball roster was depleted and Williams has added eight new recruits. If you squint, you can see the makings of a good team, but more additions are needed.

What are the positions they need to fill? Who could be the next commitment? How does his start compare to Kevin Willard's at Villanova?

In football, it was a busy day of news for Mike Locksley and company. What should you make of all the outgoing departures? How high can hopes be for a team with a lot of young talent but few proven players? Plus lots more from College Park!

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It's been a full week since Buzz Williams took over the Maryland basketball program. In that time, the Terps have seen their entire roster cleared out and five new players sign up, with more to come. How's that process going so far? What do we know about Williams' staff?

Texas A&M beat writer Andrew Hattersley also joined the show to give us insight on Willams' personality, strategy, recruiting and his traveling show.

Plus:

And lots more!

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A wild couple of weeks for Maryland basketball continued on Tuesday when the school abruptly announced the hiring of new coach Buzz Williams. Williams, who's spent the past six seasons at Texas A&M, has a track record as a winner, but doesn't stick around long wherever he goes and has no connections to the DMV.

Was the the right hire and who made the decision?

How well will he recruit and does Maryland have money to spend on players?

What will Rodney Rice do?

Plus lots more!

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The embarrassing final chapter of Kevin Willard's time at Maryland is done. Willard stained his reputation, torched the program for sport and left for Villanova, perhaps with some of the Terps' assistant coaches and best players with him.

So who will replace him as Maryland's coach? Which prospects have the best combinations of coaching ability and character? How did Luke Murray become the breakout star of the coaching search? And who's running the search?

Answers to all of those questions and lots more as Maryland gets closer to making a hire.

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A great Maryland basketball season that provided those feelings from great Terps teams in the past just ended in the least fitting way. A coach appearing to be tiptoeing his way out of town saw his rants throw the season off the rails.

Where do things go from here? What to make of Willard's manevuring? Plus more on the final postgame show of the season.

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After a season dotted by buzzer-beating losses, Maryland basketball finally turned the tables, and they did it at the most important time. After freshman star Derik Queen's buzzer-beater sent the Terps to the Sweet 16, the IMS Radio crew convened for another in a string of post-game episodes.

Scott Van Pelt followed through on his promise to rejoin the show if Maryland won, reflecting on the joy of the win as only SVP can. What are Maryland's chances against Florida? How enormous of a win was it for Kevin Willard after he plopped them up on the table in his NCAA press conferences? What to expect now with his contract extension?

Plus:

And lots more!

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After a slow start, Maryland basketball hammered Grand Canyon in its NCAA Tournament opener by 32 points, the program's largest winning margin ever in an NCAA Tournament game. There was no such slow start on the IMS Radio postgame show, highlighted by an appearance from Scott Van Pelt.

SVP and the crew talked about the Terps' impressive win and more:

-- When was the last time SVP enjoyed a season this much?

-- A strong performance from DeShawn Harris-Smith

-- This is Maryland's best team since ... when?

-- What to make of the Willard-Damon Evans situation?

-- Thoughts on Terps vs Colorado State

And lots more!

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The IMS Radio crew convened for an emergency episode after a wild day of news. The Terps haven't opened NCAA Tournament play, but Kevin Willard produced his own version of March Madness, airing out his beef with AD Damon Evans and announcing Evans is leaving for SMU.

It was a wild day for Maryland, which opens NCAA play on Friday against Grand Canyon.

Does this mean Willard is staying? Is Evans definitely gone? How popular with Willard's 'Art of War' maneuver with the fans and was he ever really interested in Villanova?

All that and more on an emergency episode of IMS Radio.

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