Sandwiched between the two Mitten State teams is Maryland, which won seven of its final eight games and 11 of its last 13 to wrap its regular season. The Terrapins went 14-6 in Big Ten play and matched their program record for most wins in the conference after joining the league from the ACC in 2013.

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It has been 39 years since St. John’s was the No. 1 seed in the Big East Tournament. It has been a quarter century since the Red Storm reached the title game or won the event. What’s the over/under on viewers who will learn just before tipoff (or now) that they need a Peacock subscription to watch the start of the school’s most anticipated run in decades?