2022 NCAA Tournament records by conference: ACC overperforms, while SEC falls short during March Madness

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The college basketball regular season is a marathon. Teams play 30-35 games doing as well as they can with the hopes of getting a spot in the NCAA Tournament.

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Regular-season performance is used by the NCAA Tournament Selection Committee to select and seed the field.

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Once the bracket is created, however, a new season begins. The number to the left of a team's name is trivial.

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Teams no longer have months to prove themselves. One loss and their season is over. There is no time to recover from an injury

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The 2022 NCAA Tournament often did not reflect regular-season performance. Two double-digit seeds made the Elite Eight and two more got as far as the Sweet 16. A No. 8 seed

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It should be no surprise, then, that if team performance did not reflect the regular season, then conference performance didn't, either.

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Here is a breakdown of how each conference fared. In parenthesis are the number of teams from that conference, its overall tournament record and the number of wins against higher

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