For the first time since 1979, the ACC’s Big Four — Duke, North Carolina, North Carolina State and Wake Forest — won’t have a participant in the Sweet 16. If not for Virginia’s win over Memphis on Sunday night, the entire ACC, even with new additions Syracuse, Pittsburgh and Notre Dame, would have been out before the Sweet 16 for the first time since ’79 too.
Third-seeded Duke was upset by Mercer in the second round. North Carolina State won a play-in game, but collapsed down the stretch against St. Louis and was ousted the same night as the Blue Devils. North Carolina lost in the final seconds on Sunday to Iowa State.
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