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Message: [QUOTE="MilfordHusky, post: 2098681, member: 366"] I think Maryland deserved a 2 and is a top 5 or so team. I don't see them behind Duke. That said, the OOC schedule definitely hurt. Brenda may have done the scheduling because of the large number of freshmen on the team and wanting to break them in slowly. The other thing that hurt them was the conference. If Maryland had the same record in the ACC, they would have had a 1 seed. The Big 1o was the weakest of the 5 Power Conferences in WCBB this year, possibly by a wide margin. I think the loss to OSU cost them a lot. It narrowed the gap between the Terps and the Buckeyes and, in so doing, narrowed the gap between Maryland and the rest of a so-so conference. If they had only the UConn loss, irrespective of their schedule, they had a strong argument for being somewhere between 2 and 5 at the lowest. Let's see how the Terps do. If they advance to the Final Four, the 3 seeding was a joke. If they advance to the Regional Finals and play UConn close, they were under-seeded. If they lose at home in the second round again, their seeding was merited. For their sake, they should not be focused on UConn or even Duke. WVU could be a tough out. We'll know more in time. [/QUOTE]