Maryland baseball released its 2018 schedule Tuesday afternoon, and the Terps will begin their season with a three-game series on the road against Tennessee starting on Feb. 16.

Maryland will continue its recent trend of playing an early-season SEC road series, doing so against Alabama in 2016 to start the year and then last season against LSU. The Terps defeated the Volunteers, 10-9, in their last meeting in 2016 during the Keith LeClair Classic in Greenville, North Carolina. Tennessee finished 27-25 overall in 2017.

Maryland went 38-23 in last season, earning the No. 4 seed in the Big Ten Tournament. The Terps rattled off three wins in the conference tournament after losing their first game, but were eliminated by Northwestern in the semifinals. After a one-year hiatus, Maryland returned to the NCAA Tournament for the third time in four seasons, where it earned a No. 3 seed in the Winston Salem Regional.

The Terps will participate in a tournament hosted by Coastal Carolina (Match 2-4), which will include Ball State—an opponent from last season—and Radford. Instead of participating in a second tournament like last season, the Terps will visit East Carolina from March 16 to March 18. The Terps and Pirates last played during a tournament in 2016.

Maryland will take on four nonconference opponents that earned a spot in the 2017 NCAA Tournament, including North Carolina, West Virginia, Delaware and Radford. Overall, though, only seven of Maryland’s 26 opponents this season qualified for the NCAA Tournament last year. 

Maryland’s four home-and-home series include William & Mary, VCU, Delaware and James Madison. Maryland will play a pair of midweek matchups against North Carolina (March 20) and West Virginia (May 1) during the regular season, like it did last year.

Every game this season—home and away—can be listened to
LIVE on the Maryland Baseball Network.

The Terps, who went 20-3 at Bob “Turtle” Smith Stadium in 2017, will begin their home schedule with a three-game series starting on February 23 against Army, who the Terps last played and swept back in 2011. The Terps will also host out-of-conference opponents Bryant (March 9-11) and Stetson (March 23-25). Maryland welcomed Bryant to College Park last season, but haven’t played Stetson since 2003.

The Terps will begin conference play by hosting Northwestern from March 30 to April 1. The Wildcats came to College Park last season, defeating the Terps in two of three games. The Terps beat Northwestern to keep their Big Ten Tournament hopes alive, but couldn’t replicate the result the following day and were eliminated in the semifinals. Maryland will also host Illinois, Purdue and Rutgers in conference play.

Like last season, Maryland will travel to Lincoln and Bloomington to take on Nebraska and Indiana.  The Terps will also visit Michigan and Michigan State as the other two conference road series. It’ll be a tough conference road slate, as three of Maryland’s four opponents all made the NCAA Tournament last season.

The Big Ten Tournament will be played from May 23 to May 27 at TD Ameritrade Park in Omaha, Nebraska.