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GREENVILLE, S.C. &#8212; The Atlantic Coast Conference&#8217;s strong regular season only stood to set up a first-weekend flameout in the NCAA Tournament.The league had a record nine bids, but North Carolina is the only one alive in the Sweet 16. And the South Region&#8217;s No. 1 seed was fortunate to survive a second-round game against Arkansas to get there.Still, top seeds Gonzaga, Kansas and UNC headline a regional round featuring 12 of the top 16 seeds, two more than last season.The rest of the top conferences fared much better than the ACC. The Pac-12 is 8-1 and the Southeastern Conference is 7-2 so far, joining the Big 12 (8-3) and Big Ten (8-4) with three Sweet 16 teams each.Here&#8217;s a look at the updated Final Four paths for the top remaining teams in each region:SouthThis is the only bracket with the top four seeds still alive, so the Tar Heels&#8217; path looks the same as it did on Selection Sunday.UNC (29-7) needed a game-closing 12-0 run to rally past the eighth-seeded Razorbacks. Now the Tar Heels meets fourth-seeded Butler (25-8), which beat No. 1 seed Villanova twice this season.That game is the undercard to Friday&#8217;s matchup of second-seeded Kentucky (31-5) and third-seeded UCLA (31-4) in Memphis, Tennessee. The Wildcats survived a tough fight with Wichita State, while the Bruins beat Cincinnati to set up a rematch of a December game won by the Bruins.&#8220;I don&#8217;t know if all the other regions went chalk, but it&#8217;s 1, 2, 3, 4 in the South,&#8221; Bruins coach Steve Alford said. &#8220;So that South Region and bracket is going to be a lot of fun.&#8221;WestThis is the only other region to have its No. 1 and No. 2 seeds both make the Sweet 16.Top-seeded Gonzaga (34-1) faces fourth-seeded West Virginia (28-8) on Thursday in San Jose, California; No. 2 seed Arizona (32-4) meets 11-seed Xavier (23-13) &#8212; the lowest-seeded team still in the field after its rout of 3-seed Florida State.If seeds hold, that would set up a rematch of a December game won by the Bulldogs 69-62. But Arizona didn&#8217;t have Allonzo Trier, who was suspended for the first 19 games for performance-enhancing drugs.The matchup would still offer a Final Four breakthrough chance for Gonzaga&#8217;s Mark Few or Arizona&#8217;s Sean Miller, two coaches yet to get there despite a combined five Elite Eight appearances.&#8220;I know this (team) certainly is right there, should be considered with any that&#8217;s ever played&#8221; at Gonzaga, Few said. &#8220;There&#8217;s probably two or three of them that should be in that mix. Ultimately we&#8217;re going to have to accomplish that Final Four to kind of put it to rest and all that.&#8221;MidwestThe Midwest also had three of its top four seeds reach the Sweet 16. But it&#8217;s the bottom half of the bracket commanding the most attention with 7-seed Michigan, possibly the hottest team in the field.The Wolverines (26-11) had a scary moment before the Big Ten Tournament when the plane set to carry them to Washington slid off a runway during an aborted takeoff. They played the first game in practice jerseys but ended up winning the title, and now have beaten Oklahoma State and 2-seed Louisville for their first NCAA wins since 2014.Michigan made 16 3-pointers against the Cowboys and has made 33 of 52 shots (63.4 percent) after halftime in those two wins.&#8220;That&#8217;s been our identity in the last month and a half, finding different ways to win,&#8221; leading scorer Derrick Walton Jr. said. &#8220;Whether it&#8217;s the 3-ball or not, it&#8217;s finding multiple different ways to win and taking what the game gives us.&#8221;Michigan faces No. 3 seed Oregon (31-5) in Kansas City, Missouri, on Thursday. The Jayhawks (30-4) get fourth-seeded Purdue (27-7), the Big Ten regular-season champion.EastWelcome to the lone topsy-turvy bracket after losses by No. 1 overall seed Villanova and No. 2 seed Duke.Now third-seeded Baylor (27-7) is the highest remaining seed entering a matchup with seventh-seeded South Carolina (24-10), which is in the Sweet 16 for the first time in the current tournament format after hanging 65 second-half points on the preseason No. 1-ranked Blue Devils in Sunday&#8217;s 88-81 upset .The other half of Friday&#8217;s bracket in New York features fourth-seeded Florida (26-8) against No. 8 seed Wisconsin (27-9), which upset the reigning champion Wildcats on Saturday. The Badgers are in the Sweet 16 for the sixth time in seven years behind Bronson Koenig and Nigel Hayes &#8212; two holdovers from a run to the national-title game in 2015.&#8220;You have all types of your ranking systems, statistic, analytics guys that they put,&#8221; Hayes said. &#8220;The thing is with all those algorithms, they can&#8217;t calculate heart, will to win, toughness, desire. They can&#8217;t put that into a formula to come out with a percentage chance to win, and that&#8217;s the things that we have.&#8221;<style>
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<div class="neCaption">North Carolina&#8217;s Justin Jackson is trapped by Arkansas&#8217; Moses Kingsley, right, and Manuale Watkins during Sunday&#8217;s NCAA tournament game. The No. 1 Tar Heels needed a late-game rally to beat the Razorbacks for the 72-65 win. </div></div><div class="metaInfo"><photo0>https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/web1_NCAA-Sweet16.jpg</photo0><caption0>North Carolina&#8217;s Justin Jackson is trapped by Arkansas&#8217; Moses Kingsley, right, and Manuale Watkins during Sunday&#8217;s NCAA tournament game. The No. 1 Tar Heels needed a late-game rally to beat the Razorbacks for the 72-65 win. </caption0><photoCredit0>Chuck Burton | AP photo </photoCredit0></div></div>
<div class="metaInfo"><subheadMeta>After a record 9 NCAA seeds, UNC lone survivor</subheadMeta></div><div class="metaInfo"><bylineMeta>By Aaron BeardAP Basketball Writer</bylineMeta></div><div class="metaInfo"><factboxMeta>TV SCHEDULESweet 16 ThursdayCBS &#8212; No. 3 Oregon vs. No. 7 Michigan, 7:09 p.m.TBS &#8212; No. 1 Gonzaga vs. No. 4 West Virginia, 7:39 p.m.CBS &#8212; No. 1 Kansas vs. No. 4 Purdue, 9:39 p.m.TBS &#8212; No. 2 Arizona vs. No. 11 Xavier, 10:09 p.m.Regional Semifinals (Sweet 16) Friday, March 24Games (Sweet 16) Date Game Site Time (ET) NetworkFridayCBS &#8212; No. 1 UNC vs. No. 4 Butler, 7:09 p.m.TBS &#8212; No. 3 Baylor vs. No. 7 South Carolina, 7:29 p.m.CBS &#8212; No. 2 Kentucky vs. No. 3 UCLA, 9:39 p.m.TBS &#8212; No. 4 Florida vs. No. 8 Wisconsin, 10:09 p.m.</factboxMeta></div>

ACC flameout reshapes Sweet 16 bracket