GW Countdown #17 and #18

Gary Williams is in his 19th season as head coach at Maryland. Here is a ranking of his previous 18 seasons. 1992 and 1993 were the only years that MD finished under .500 since he took the job in 1989.

The NBA salary information below is from basketball-reference.com.

Case and point #1 on why MD needs to mix in a course on decision analysis for next year's curriculum: The career earnings for Walt Williams noted below is less than the amount of money he opted out of in Miami in 1996 - only to sign for the league minimum with the Raptors. Regardless, Williams' reverse throw-down alley-oop dunks against UNC are still near the top of the list on all-time great MD highlights.

#17

1992:
Final AP Ranking: Unranked
Record: 14 - 15 (Banned from NCAA Tournament)
ACC: 5 - 11 (eighth)
ACC First Round: Lost to Duke by 7
NCAA Champion: Duke
- Williams (Sr): 27 - 6 - 4 - ACC1 -- NBA (13 years, 708 gp, 12 ppg, 4 rpg, 2 apg, $35M in career earnings)
- Burns (Jr): 16 - 7 - 1 -- NBA (1 year, 23 gp, 2 ppg, 1 rpg, $1.6M in career earnings)
- McClinton (Jr): 12 - 5 - 5
- Smith (Sr): 10 - 7 - 2
- Broadnax (Sr): 9 - 4 - 3
- Kerwin (Jr): 4 - 5 - 1

#18 (worst season):

1993:
Final AP Ranking: Unranked
Record: 12 - 16 (Did not make NIT or NCAA Tournament)
ACC: 2 - 14 (eighth)
ACC First Round: Lost to UNC by 36
NCAA Champion: UNC
- Burns (Sr): 19 - 9 - 2 -- NBA (1 year, 23 gp, 2 ppg, 1 rpg, $1.6M in career earnings)
- McClinton (Sr): 16 - 5 - 6
- Rhodes (Fr): 14 - 5 - 3
- Hipp (Fr): 11 - 5 - 3
- Kerwin (Sr): 7 - 5 - 1
- Lucas (Fr): 4 - 2 - 0

Note: The NBA statistics and salary information is from basketball-reference.com. It was valid as of March, 2008.