Four teams from the ACC and SEC combined made it to the second round of the NCAA Tournament, but two of those would fall on Saturday. Ten seed Maryland was blown out by two seed Memphis, 89-70, and eight seed LSU was handled by one seed North Carolina, 84-70. With LSU’s loss, the SEC was knocked out of the tournament. Duke was the second ACC team to advance to the Sweet 16, defeating Texas, 74-69.
In a massively disappointing first two days for ACC partisans everywhere, four conference teams fell in the first round, and two of the games weren’t close. Both Wake Forest and Boston College were blown out on Friday night (by 13 seed Cleveland State and 10 seed USC, respectively). Two other ACC teams, Clemson and FSU, lost to lower-seeded teams (in this case, 10 seed Michigan and 12 seed Wisconsin).
LSU was the only Southeastern Conference team to make it out of the first round. Thirteen seed Mississippi State was beaten handily by Washington on Thursday, and Tennessee fell narrowly to Oklahoma State on Friday afternoon.
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