Grand Canyon Antelopes vs Maryland Terrapins Prediction, Odds and Picks for Today, 03/21/25

The Grand Canyon Antelopes will be making their third consecutive NCAA Tournament appearance when they face the Maryland Terrapins during first-round action on Friday afternoon. Grand Canyon accounted itself well each of the past 2 years, losing to #3 seed Gonzaga by 12 points in 2023 before winning a 5-12 matchup over a favored St. Mary’s team last season and then losing to eventual Final Four participant Alabama by 11 points. All 5 Antelopes starters have played in multiple NCAA Tournaments and 3 are former WAC Tournament Most Outstanding Players (Tyon Grant-Foster, Ray Harrison and most recently JaKobe Coles). This kind of experience cannot be discounted in the Big Dance.

Maryland, on the other hand, has only 1 player (Julian Reese) who has participated in March Madness–with the Terrapins in 2023. Head coach Kevin Willard’s club is led by freshman big man Derik Queen, who averages 16.3 points and 9.0 rebounds per contest. The Terps are a solid squad, but half of their 6 Big Ten regular-season losses came to opponents that are not in the tournament. Grand Canyon head coach Bryce Drew had his own One Shining Moment in 1998 with a famous buzzer-beater to stun Ole Miss in the first round. Now he will make another attempt with his Antelopes team to produce historic March Madness result. It may not happen, but at the very least the ‘Lopes should be competitive.

Grand Canyon vs Maryland prediction: Grand Canyon +10.5 (-110) available at time of publishing. Playable at that number.

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