The Maryland men's basketball team is only about a month away from starting play in the NCAA Tournament. Whether the Terps are a No. 1 or No. 4 seed, they'll certainly enter the opening weekend as a favorite to reach the Sweet 16 - and perhaps go farther than that.
With the better part of a week until the Terps play another game (on Saturday, against Wisconsin), it's a useful time to take stock of where the Terps are and where they're likely to go. This has been a beautiful mess of a college basketball season, with no team looking anything near unbeatable and giants falling to heretofore mediocre opponents all the time.