Well, there we have it. Butler to the Sweet 16.
It's funny, because so many people figured Maryland wouldn't even make it to the second round because they're so inconsistent. So it's not necessarily surprising that the Terrapins went down today.
It would have been so much sweeter if Xavier had knocked off Ohio State. Maryland is definitely an ACC school, but has long had much more of a scrap-and-grit mentality to it. Duke and Carolina get all the good basketball players. The Florida schools have historically dominated the conference in football, and Penn State gets a very large percentage of the good football players in Maryland.
Still, we have a mid-major in the Sweet 16, and for the second time in three years it's from the Horizon League (remember Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 2005?). It sure would be something if the Bulldogs took out Florida too.
