The wise guys in Vegas have posted the Maryland men's basketball team as a seven-point underdog going into Thursday night's (9:40 p.m.) game against No. 1 seed Kansas, but if the Terps stumble out of the gate like they did on Sunday, they'll be lucky to still be in the game at halftime.
The Jayhawks aren't just the No. 1 season in the region, they were the near-unanimous No. 1 team in the nation in the USA Today coaches poll entering the postseason. The Terps, of course, had slipped to No. 17 over the final weeks of the Big Ten season, but it might be wise for coach Mark Turgeon to remind them that they are the same group of players that was ranked ahead of Kansas in both major preseason polls.