Maryland men’s basketball opened its NCAA Tournament with a comfortable win. The Baltimore Sun staff reacts to the win over Grand Canyon.

Maryland's 32-point win is the biggest margin of victory in the school's long, rich March Madness history. It was, by far, the worst loss in GCU's five NCAA tournament games, a string that began in 2021, coach Bryce Drew's first year leading the program.

Myriad distractions confronted the fourth-seeded Maryland basketball team entering Friday’s NCAA tournament game agae No. 13 seed Grand Canyon. The Terrapins tuned them all out. Instead, they simply clamped down defensively and controlled the interior offensively,