It's been a nasty flu season. And Maryland apparently is taking another hit or two.

The Terps have already played without Cliff Tucker for a stretch, pretty much quarantining him for a game while he battled the flu last month. And Bambale Osby got sick as well, with an ear infection making his life miserable for about a week.

And now ...

"This is certainly another test for us to see how strong we are mentally as well as physically," coach Gary Williams said today. "We have had some flu problems this week as it's gone along. I don't want to be specific a to what players have had it, but that's been out there. It makes it tough. That's part of a season. A season is a long time. You go through things you have to get out of if you expect to do well. I think we'll be in good shape to play Sunday."

Someone (or someones) has a built-in reason for a shaky performance in the regular-season finale at Virginia. Let the guessing games begin as to who (if anyone) might produce an understandable but still poorly timed clunker in C-ville.

--- Patrick Stevens