After winning the ACC regular season title and the ACC Tournament, No. 1 seed Duke is headed to the Elite Eight for the second consecutive season. During this time, Cooper Flagg has cemented himself as one of the best freshmen in college basketball history, a fact which has been clearly highlighted during the NCAA Tournament.

Each ACC team played in a dangerous game on an adventurous Thursday in Charlotte. Duke battled through Cooper Flagg’s injury and a horrible start to avoid the upset against Georgia Tech.

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.