As team after team was announced during Sunday evening's NCAA Tournament selection show, Maryland coach Mark Turgeon could barely contain his anticipation.
A few hundred miles away, Xavier coach Chris Mack and his team were stressing through several exasperating minutes just the same because a late-season skid chipped away at their chance of earning a bid.
In a fitting showdown between two teams that are ready to hit the reset button after stumbling late in the season and sweating through the selection show, the No. 6 seed Terrapins will take on the No. 11 seed Musketeers in a West Region first-round game Thursday at the Amway Center in Orlando, Fla.