At this time last year, Maryland basketball was nervously waiting to hear if it would make the cut for the NIT — it didn't. The year before that, the Terps made the NCAA Tournament field as a No. 6 seed, but lost their first game against No. 11-seed Xavier.
This year, they’re back, earning a No. 6 seed again and playing either Belmont or Temple in Jacksonville on Thursday afternoon.
Nobody on Maryland’s current squad has ever played in and won a postseason game, and only seniors Ivan Bender and Andrew Terrell were on the roster when the Terps made the Sweet 16 in 2016.