The ACC set a record for NCAA Tournament futility on Friday, as No. 11 seed North Carolina's 71-64 loss to No. 6 seed Ole Miss left Duke as the conference's only team left in the field. It marks the first time since the NCAA Tournament added at-large bids that there won't be multiple ACC teams in the second round.

Duke is officially the only ACC team in the Round of 32. Via @ESPNStatsInfo, it's the first time since the NCAA started allowing multiple teams from the same conference into the NCAA tournament in 1975 that the ACC will have one or fewer teams in the Round of 32.

Jon Scheyer and the Duke Blue Devils have made it look easy on their way to the first Final Four appearance under the three-year coach. On Saturday night, No. 1 seed Duke took down No. 2 seed Alabama 85-65 in the Elite Eight,

Second-seeded Duke defeated No. 3 North Carolina in the NCAA Tournament’s Sweet 16 on Friday in the teams’ first NCAA postseason meeting. The Blue Devils will play again Sunday.

Five teams appeared in the men's NCAA tournament in 2022, '23 and '24. In 2019 and '21, seven ACC squads received a berth. Nine teams made it in both 2018 and '19. (The 2020 NCAA tournament was canceled.)

UNC took some losses to highly ranked competition in nonconference games, but eventually molded into a team that earned an NCAA Tournament spot.

The latest results, news, notes and analysis from the 2025 NCAA Tournament. It’s shaping up to be a landmark year for ACC women’s basketball and the Triangle’s league teams in particular.

For the first time since multiple teams from the same conference could even enter the NCAA tournament, the ACC failed to get two into the second round. Time for some soul-searching.