For the third time in coach Mark Turgeon’s seven years at Maryland, the Terps will not be playing in the postseason.
Maryland (19-13), which had been thought to be a fourth or fifth seed in the National Invitation Tournament, was left out of the 32-team field of the second-tier tournament.
A late rush of regular-season champions guaranteed spots as well as two other Big Ten teams with better resumes than the Terps contributed to Maryland’s exclusion.
It marks the first time since the 2013-14 season — the last for the Terps in the Atlantic Coast Conference — that Maryland will not be playing in the postseason.