Not for this blog site, and not for Gary Williams' Maryland basketball team. More on that later.

As for this blog, it's almost certain to be undergoing some renovations in the next few weeks. It might be blended in with other sites on baltimoresun.com, it might change form and focus slightly, it might even get a new name. But it definitely will be more of a daily destination. It's taken about a year to really settle in with what this media format is all about; the same goes for the weekly podcast, which also will undergo some alterations (and will return later today). For those who stuck with it through the hiatuses and sporadic postings (this latest stretch of inactivity was partly because of time off from the job, and partly because transmitting from Miami the week of the Super Bowl was a daily technological nightmare), I appreciate your patience and fortitude.

And, once again, I insist, this blog was not in disarray.

See, I'm channeling Gary Williams again.

Hate to say I told you so, but I told you so. Williams told you a month ago, after the losses at Virginia and Virginia Tech, when he said this team was close and was going to be "fine.'' At that point they were 1-4 in the ACC, and that comment got ridiculed - even though anybody who has watched him over the years knows that if he thinks his team is lying down on him or underachieving, he won't bite his tongue or sugarcoat it. Think back to two years ago, for example, when John Gilchrist and Co. faded so badly at the end when only one win would've clinched a berth.

After the second loss to U-Va, at home, making them 3-6 in conference, the screaming about the game passing him by and about the program going downhill and about him probably needing to be put out to pasture got the loudest its ever been. It ticked him off. Apparently, it ticked all his players off, because they haven't lost since. Five in a row.

So much for how historically disastrous it was going to be when they got left out of the Dance for the third straight year. When. With a month to go in the season. It's as if nobody could see the obvious difference between the last two seasons and this year - no gagging down the stretch of the season, no senior leadership letting them down, no academic suspensions, no groundswell of mid-majors cluttering up the bracket possibilities, no huge separation between the top tier and next tier in the conference.

Terps fans, you made yourselves look bad on this one. You just completely lost it. Soak up this win over North Carolina, revel in the all-but-certain NCAA berth, ponder the possibilities of keeping the streak alive in the final two regular-season games and in the ACC tournament - but feel a little ashamed of yourselves for melting down the way you did a couple of weeks ago. (On the other hand, though, feel proud - no burning couches on Route 1 last night. Very nice restraint.)

No wonder Gary got all teary-eyed in the post-game on-court interview. Of course, some fan rushing the floor might have stepped on his foot.

One way or another, his feelings were definitely in disarray.

Final thought: too bad Williams didn't back up his defense of his team a couple of weeks ago by pledging to shave his head bald if the Terps didn't make the tournament. Then again, that might have raised the possibility of a sight like this: