NCAA Tournament March Madness

#120 Maryland

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Projection: likely out

Maryland’s season is a tale of bright spots that are overwhelmed by damaging setbacks: they have resume-grade victories at Marquette and on neutral floors against UNLV and Oregon and showed they can win away with a road victory at Minnesota and a home win over Iowa, but those moments are overshadowed by crushing neutral losses to Gonzaga and Alabama, an embarrassing home defeat to Michigan and lopsided road debacles at Michigan State and Wisconsin along with too many defeats to major conference rivals like Purdue and Illinois. That mix leaves the committee focused on a profile that contains quality wins but also a troubling collection of bad losses and inconsistent performance away from home, and with most of the marquee chances already in the books there are limited windows left to add a truly resume-altering result so the overall picture reads like a borderline resume that ultimately comes up short.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3(N)Coppin St363W83-61
11/7Georgetown79L70-60
11/11Alcorn St346W84-64
11/15@Marquette84W89-82
11/19Mt St Mary's277W95-90
11/24(N)UNLV108W74-67
11/25(N)Gonzaga10L100-61
11/26(N)Alabama18L105-72
12/2Wagner305W89-63
12/6@Iowa25L83-64
12/13Michigan3L101-83
12/20@Virginia13L80-72
12/28Old Dominion248W73-58
1/2Oregon99L64-54
1/7Indiana46L84-66
1/10@UCLA27L67-55
1/13@USC80L88-71
1/18Penn St138W96-73
1/21@Illinois7L89-70
1/24@Michigan St9L91-48
2/1Purdue8L93-63
2/5Ohio St26L82-62
2/8@Minnesota77W67-62
2/11Iowa25W77-70
2/15@Rutgers124L68-57
2/18@Northwestern57L78-74
2/21Washington53W64-60
2/25@Nebraska14L74-61
3/1Rutgers124L69-65
3/4@Wisconsin22L78-45
3/8Illinois7L78-72
3/10(N)Oregon99W70-60
3/11(N)Iowa25L75-64