Harp & Lang.

Having spent a good bit of time in England, the BasketCases have always thought that The Harp & Lang would be a perfect name for your friendly neighborhood British pub. Indeed, there may be such a place tucked away in some nice green hamlet. We don't know. What we do know, however, is that Harp & Lang is the name of one of the best frontcourt tandems in the country. And in today's Philadelphia Inquirer, Mike Jensen tells the wonderful story of how two of the country's top high school players rejected the nation's college basketball powerhouses to take a chance on Coach Frese, Maryland, and the dream of a first national championship. The overall tale is one that is familiar to most Terps fans, but Jensen's re-telling is well worth the read. And in another retrospective, Greg Schimmel in today's Diamondback takes a look at Lang's development into the star she is today.

It's been four years since their high school days in the Philly suburbs, and Harp and Lang are major reasons why Maryland is now mentioned in the same breath as those other college basketball powerhouses. Thank you, Harp and Lang!