Five of twelve S-Tier teams didn’t make the second weekend. The biggest surprises, to me at least, were Kentucky and Baylor. Baylor had the best comeback that never was and ran into a red-hot North Carolina team.
There was a 50-point difference between North Carolina and Baylor, and something I kept going back to, man, momentum is hard to understand. Teams like Virginia Tech and Iowa were on fire after their respective conference tournaments and flamed out after 40 minutes.
I still believe that the 2022 national champion is on this short-list, but it did take a hit in the first four days.