First, our PG back on the 2002 team was Adam Boone. Aaron Boone is a former MLB player and the current manager of the Yankees. We might have been better off with Aaron as our PG.
Second, according to KenPom, Maryland was the 3rd best team in the nation in 2002 with a NetRating of +29.25. Carolina was 137th with a NetRating of +2.53. If you dig even further beyond those topline metrics, you'd see that KenPom shows that the strength of the Terps were their guards and that guards were our biggest weakness. Qualitative metrics in 2002 certainly predicted that we would struggle against Maryland and that, in particular, our guards would struggle against their guards.