Was Denver better than Virginia and/or Maryland?
Hard to say. No head to head between those three. Maryland staggered late in the regular season but has been terrific in the NCAA's. UVA was very inconsistent and had some big wins and bad losses including looking bad yesterday. Denver was solid all year but didn't have top end talent on offense. None of those three teams won their conference tourneys or were seeded in the top 4.
Maryland is probably the second best team in the country now. I'm expecting a dogfight for 3 quarters and then Irish handle business late.
As Lax points out we are deeper and that will be very important with the short turnaround. Lax teams rarely play more than once a week and when they do its usually 3-4 days apart.