A little something from the Baltimore Sun in anticipation of Saturday's North Carolina-Maryland battle:

Because the teams will meet only once in the regular season, the winner not only will own the tiebreaker should there be a deadlock, but have the cushion of being able to lose a game in the second half of the conference schedule without necessarily ceding first place. Today's winner also might claim a leg up in the race for a top seed in the NCAA tournament among a pool of teams that includes top-ranked Connecticut, No. 2 Tennessee, both of which have beaten North Carolina, and No. 5 Rutgers, which gave Maryland its lone loss.

Look for the game on FSN, 1pmEST