Fox Sports college basketball analyst Steve Lavin, who coached teams to eight NCAA Tournament berths and made five trips to the Sweet 16, believes the Maryland men's basketball team can make a deep run come March.
"I'm big on Maryland," Lavin said on Glenn Clark Radio Feb. 1. "I think they're a Sweet 16 team capable of even going farther."
Lavin was the head coach at UCLA from 1996-2003 and St. John's from 2010-2015. Lavin made the Tournament six out of seven years at UCLA, making it the Sweet 16 in five of those years and the Elite Eight once.
Maryland head coach Mark Turgeon -- now in his seventh season at Maryland -- has yet to get any Terps team past the Sweet 16. In fact, Maryland hasn't made it past the Sweet 16 since it won the national championship in 2002. But history shows that patience really is a virtue, at least for some teams.
