As the first game of the day gets rolling, how’s your bracket doing? Mine’s doing okay, but it’s not even within spitting range of the entry submitted by the enigmatic Dr. Terp, who leads both DCist staff-reader pools with an unbelievable 30 (!) correct picks in the first round. The esteemed Doc only missed on Georgetown and Marquette during the first two days. Since his/her Ph.D. is obviously in basketball prognostication, I’d like to dig into Dr. Terp’s expertise for this hypothetical: if Maryland and the Wizards played each other in a one-off, neutral-site game, who would win? Last night, Maryland scored more points, shot better from the field, and has a freshman who looks like a more well-rounded player than anyone than Flip Saunders can toss out there. Not only that, but the Wizards haven’t won a game this month, and obviously can’t manage endgame situations — critical in March — after losing on a last-second shot to Portland last night in what was probably the most boring NBA game I’ve ever read about. Of course, for this hypothetical to even make a lick of sense, you’d have to make the leap that the Wizards would possess enough quality to even make the NCAA Tournament. (Good thing for them that the expansion to 96 teams “will happen“, I guess.)