By Brian Kapur
The Terps will take the field today with a lot on the line. The ACC Championship win vaulted them into the top spot in the polls and if they can hold serve against Dartmouth they will be the prohibitive favorites to get the top seed in the NCAA tournament.
While they are already pretty much guarenteed homefield advantage for the first two rounds and the final four and championship is set at Towson, the seeding holds bigger stakes.
The way it is right now, if the seeds were worked out Maryland would be in the top spot with Northwestern and UNC in the two and three seeds (not sure about the exact order of UNC and Northwestern, but for Maryland it would not matter).
In this scenario, the Terps would likely get a team they had beaten in the final four (again assuming they hold serve in the regular season finale and what should be two home games in the first two rounds) The likely matchups would be UPenn, Duke or Virgina depending on how things shake out.
The bottom line in all of this is that the Terps "just have to win baby!" as Al Davis once said. They could have a very clean road to the title game before likely taking on Northwestern or UNC.
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