Cavs, Terps and Mids Are In; Hoyas Left Out

"It was nerve wracking," Navy Coach Richie Meade said of watching the selection show. "I had a sense after yesterday that we were probably going to get selected. But it's been different not knowing. . . . Despite what people tell you, you never feel comfortable."

Virginia and Maryland each will host a first-round game. The Cavaliers (12-3) will play UMBC (12-2) on Sunday at 5 p.m.; the Terrapins (9-5) will host Denver (10-6) on Saturday at noon.

Virginia earned a No. 2 seed; Maryland is seeded No. 7. "It's an exciting time of year," Virginia Coach Dom Starsia said. "There are always some surprises. . . . We're excited to be going forward."

Duke (16-1) is the top seed. Johns Hopkins (8-5), the defending champion, is the No. 5 seed. The Blue Jays will face Hofstra (10-5) on Sunday at 2:30.

The quarterfinal games will be played in Annapolis on May 17 and Ithaca, N.Y., on May 18.

The Final Four is being held Memorial Day weekend in Foxborough, Mass. And for the first time since 1996, Georgetown will not have a chance to make it.

The players are in exams, Urick said, and he added that a team meeting had been called for this afternoon to discuss the season's abrupt end.

"The bottom line is, we had a chance to play our way in," Urick said. "If we had won our last three games it really would have solidified our chances. We hoped winning two of the last three would be enough.

"We have a lot of questions about how this thing was selected. Hopefully, they will be addressed at some time. And we'll use this to go forward."