NCAA Tournament March Madness

#127 Maryland

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Maryland’s resume shows flashes — a road win at Marquette, a neutral-site victory over UNLV, a road win at Minnesota and a bounce-back home win over Iowa — but those highlights are overwhelmed by several damaging blowouts and bad neutral losses, most notably at Gonzaga and Alabama and on the road at Illinois and Michigan State, plus heavy defeats at home to Michigan and against top conference rivals. The committee will see a team that can beat solid mid-tier opponents but has not beaten many proven top teams and has been regularly swept up in lopsided losses, which hurts on résumé and resume construction. Remaining games against Rutgers, at Northwestern, a home date with Washington and late chances against Illinois and Wisconsin give Maryland opportunities to add the kind of resume-saving wins it needs, yet unless it strings together road or neutral victories against respected opponents those remaining chances are unlikely to erase the damage already done.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3(N)Coppin St364W83-61
11/7Georgetown83L70-60
11/11Alcorn St340W84-64
11/15@Marquette103W89-82
11/19Mt St Mary's295W95-90
11/24(N)UNLV129W74-67
11/25(N)Gonzaga10L100-61
11/26(N)Alabama16L105-72
12/2Wagner324W89-63
12/6@Iowa24L83-64
12/13Michigan1L101-83
12/20@Virginia20L80-72
12/28Old Dominion243W73-58
1/2Oregon100L64-54
1/7Indiana35L84-66
1/10@UCLA41L67-55
1/13@USC50L88-71
1/18Penn St124W96-73
1/21@Illinois6L89-70
1/24@Michigan St13L91-48
2/1Purdue8L93-63
2/5Ohio St40L82-62
2/8@Minnesota80W67-62
2/11Iowa24W77-70
2/15@Rutgers16147%
2/18@Northwestern7022%
2/21Washington4732%
2/25@Nebraska114%
3/1Rutgers16169%
3/4@Wisconsin298%
3/8Illinois67%