Real basketball starts Friday, so this should be one of the very last pieces of preseason praise for Mark Turgeon's team. ESPN "bracketologist" Joe Lunardi pegs the Terrapins as a No. 1 seed in March's NCAA Tournament, drawing the top slot in the West region, with North Carolina finishing as the No. 1 overall seed and therefore taking the East. Lunardi projects Maryland to start in Brooklyn (which is actually quite possible), with a possible round-of-32 match against North Carolina State.