Overview
- The SEC won 13 of 16 games in the SEC-ACC Challenge, with an average victory margin reported at 13.6 points.
- The only ACC winners were SMU, Syracuse and Virginia Tech, and every ranked ACC team lost its matchup.
- Media ballots and projections moved SEC teams to the top tier, with SB Nation listing Texas No. 1 ahead of UConn and South Carolina and FanSided projecting UConn first, Texas second and South Carolina third.
- Entering Sunday, NET snapshots showed nine SEC teams in the top 30 compared with just two from the ACC.
- Signature results included Texas defeating North Carolina in Austin, double-digit home losses for Duke, Miami and Florida State, Mississippi State routing Pitt, LSU beating Duke and Louisville falling to South Carolina by two.