Maryland's Matt Shaw (Maryland Athletics)

Midwest Impressions: Maryland, SEMO Among Opening Weekend Standouts

There are 53 Division I teams from the 12 Midwest states (Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, Wisconsin) that play in 12 different conferences.

Several teams in the Midwest more than proved they can more than play with teams from the South. What stood out over the first weekend of play as the 2022 season kicked off? I’ll attempt to answer that here.

Maryland Joins The Ranked

When putting together the Big Ten Conference preview leading up to the season, Burke Granger and I felt pretty confident putting Maryland at[…]