Beltway Basketball Beat: March sadness for U.Md. and Georgetown, plus the 2026 cookie bracket

WTOP's Dave Preston is out with his annual Girl Scout Cookie ranking.(WTOP photo) WTOP's Dave Preston is out with his annual Girl Scout Cookie ranking.(WTOP photo) Dave Preston is an AP Top 25 voter. View his latest ballot here. March will deliver much more sadness than madness in the D.C. area, with the two flagship men’s college basketball programs dealing with losing seasons for the third time in five years. This world of March misery is a recent phenomenon: Before 2022, the last time the Terps and Hoyas posted losing seasons the same year was 1968. The two schools took opposite avenues to their conference cellars. While Maryland posted nine of its 15 Big Ten losses by 17 points or...