Men’s NCAA Tournament projections: What seed might No. 13 Maryland, Towson earn?

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With just two games left in the regular season, No. 13 Maryland men’s basketball is running out of chances to improve its NCAA Tournament resume. Fortunately for the Terps, they’re well within the projected field. The battle now is to improve their seeding.

Maryland’s projected seed can improve Wednesday, as the Terps face No. 17 Michigan on the road for a chance at their seventh Quadrant 1 victory of the season. They’ve climbed to No. 14 in the NET rankings, which are used to sort teams into quadrants and aid the selection committee as it picks and seeds the NCAA Tournament field. Maryland is 11-0 in Quad 3 and 4 games, suggesting the Terps don’t have any bad losses. They’re a solid 5-1 in Quad 2 games, although their 6-6 record in Quad 1 games leaves room for improvement.

The Terps are viewed reasonably well by most advanced metrics that the selection committee is given to review teams before fielding the 68-team tournament, although predictive metrics view them better than the strictly resume-focused numbers:

The resume-focused metrics would improve with a road win over a well-respected Michigan team and any meaningful neutral site wins in this month’s Big Ten Tournament. A win against Michigan would also help the team’s Big Ten Tournament seeding outlook. With strong current metrics, “bracketologists” have the Terps on the verge of earning a top-four seed for the first time since 2015.

Towson, which went 16-2 in Coastal Athletic Association play to earn the conference’s No. 1 seed for its upcoming tournament, is also projected to make the field as the CAA’s automatic qualifier. Here’s where a few prominent bracket experts have the Terps and Tigers projected to land in the NCAA Tournament field.

ESPN’s Joe Lunardi

Lunardi lists Maryland as a No. 5 seed in the East Region, and the Terps would open against No. 12 seed Drake. The winner would face the victor of Arizona vs. Akron in the second round. Lunardi’s projected East Region gives Duke the…

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Author : Baltimore Sun

Publish date : 2025-03-04 20:37:00

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