Men’s and Women’s Basketball Teams Earn Bids to NCAA Tournament

The Terps ladies’s and males’s basketball groups will each kick off their NCAA Tournaments this week, with the ladies final evening incomes the No. 2 seed and the boys seeded eighth.

The Maryland ladies’s crew (25-6) will host the primary and second rounds this weekend on the Xfinity Middle. The Terrapins will face Fifteenth-seeded Holy Cross (24-8), the Patriot League champion, within the spherical of 64 on Friday, with the winner advancing to face the victor of the matchup between No. 7-seeded Arizona (21-9) and No. 10-seeded West Virginia (19-11).

The Maryland males’s basketball crew (21-12) will face No. 9 seed West Virginia within the first spherical at 12:15 p.m. on Thursday in Birmingham, Ala. The winner of that matchup will play on March 18 in opposition to the winner of the sport between No. 1 seed Alabama and No. 16 seed Texas A&M Corpus Christi.

The Terps reached the quarterfinals of the Massive Ten Event in head coach Kevin Willard’s first season with this system, and are returning to the NCAA Event for the primary time because the 2020-21 marketing campaign.

The Maryland ladies have earned a bid to the NCAA Event in every of the final 13 seasons (however the 2020 NCAA Event was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic). The Terrapins have earned a high 4 seed 22 instances of their 28 NCAA Event appearances and 15 instances in head coach Brenda Frese’s 18 NCAA Event appearances. The Terrapins have been a No. 2 seed in 2021, 2016, 2012, 2007 and 2006 below Frese.

Of their earlier 17 appearances below Frese, the Terrapins are 38-16. Frese has led the Terrapins to 10 Candy Sixteens, six Elite Eights, three Last Fours and the 2006 NCAA Championship.

Senior Diamond Miller was named a unanimous All-Massive Ten first crew decide earlier this month. Sophomore Shyanne Sellers was named to the All-Massive Ten first crew by the league’s media panel and the second crew by the league’s head coaches. Abby Meyers earned second crew honors from each teams, and senior Religion Masonius earned a Massive Ten Sportsmanship Award.

NCAA Regionals will probably be held in Greenville, S.C. and Seattle, Wash. the weekend of March 24-27, with the Last 4 scheduled in Dallas March 31-April 2.

The Terps are 1-1 all-time in opposition to Holy Cross, with the final assembly in 1997, when Maryland beat the Crusaders within the ECAC Vacation Pageant in Worcester, Mass.

The boys will make their thirtieth all-time look within the NCAA Event, the place they’ve earned a 43-28 report. The Terps have reached the Candy Sixteen 14 instances, the Elite Eight 4 instances, the Last 4 twice, and gained the NCAA Nationwide Championship title in 2002. The Terrapins have gained 14 of their final 15 opening-round video games relationship again to 1997.

The NCAA Event bid marks Maryland’s sixth look within the final seven relevant years.

Maryland is led this yr by Jahmir Younger, who averages 16.1 factors per sport, adopted by Hakim Hart (11.5 ppg), Donta Scott (11.5 ppg) and Julian Reese (11.2 ppg).

West Virginia is 19-14 general and went 7-11 within the Massive 12 this season. The Mountaineers lead the all-time collection in opposition to the Terps, 24-14, with the groups final assembly within the 2015 NCAA Event, a 69-59 win by the Mountaineers.