The transitive property was one of my favorite lessons of high school geometry. You know, the standard "If A is B and B is C, then A is also C" sort of thing. We can't actually apply this to sports wins and losses for obvious reasons, but there's no good reason not to play around and have fun with it. And so, with the national championship game in college basketball happening on Monday night, this is a pretty good time to do exactly that.
Maryland isn't playing in the national final, obviously. But North Carolina and Villanova re playing.