Maryland men’s basketball has found itself comfortably in the field for nearly the entirety of conference play with the team climbing one seed line in the latest updates.
One day after Joe Lunardi listed Maryland as a five-seed and 18th overall in his bracket, ESPN projected Maryland as a five-seed in Seattle facing the winner of Arkansas vs. Wake Forest in the play-in game, with Auburn the one-seed and St. John’s the five-seed in the same region.
USA Today had a near-identical projection with Maryland a five-seed in Arizona, though facing Drake in the first round with the winner of Arizona vs. High Point awaiting the Round of 32 matchup.
Jerry Palm of CBS Sports, who ranks 164th out of 179 bracketologists in accuracy, was most bullish on the Terps after he projected Maryland as a seven-seed vs. San Diego State with Texas A&M the two-seed in the same pool.
Still, Maryland remains a consensus pick to land in the 2025 NCAA Tournament with all 97 brackets tracked on bracketmatrix.com projecting the Terps in the field, landing on the six-seed line with an average seed of 5.84 across all brackets.
Whether Maryland can climb into the four-seed range is the question with three of the final five games set at Xfinity Center, starting with Thursday night against USC for an 8:30 PM tip. Three of those games, including Thursday, are Quad Two games where Maryland stands 3-1 so far this season. The last two regular-season games against ranked teams gives Maryland a chance to move to 8-5 in Quad One games this season, a stark turnaround after starting 1-3 against Quad One opponents.
Winners in three straight and seven of their last eight games, Maryland also enters Tuesday tied for fifth in the Big Ten next to UCLA, though it’s Maryland who owns the tiebreaker over the Bruins thanks to the 18-point win back on Jan. 10.
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