By David Cobb & Kyle Boone, CBS Sports: The Pac-12 has been maligned as a basketball league in recent years, and the conference was robbed of the opportunity to show its improvement on a national stage in 2020, when the NCAA Tournament was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. But Monday produced a rather stunning reality: there will be four Pac-12 teams in the Sweet 16 and just one team from the Big Ten.
That was solidified during the conclusion to second round action, as No. 7 seed Oregon knocked off No. 2 seed Iowa. Then, No. 11 seed UCLA defeated Abilene Christian to become the Pac-12’s third squad bound for this weekend’s regional semifinals. USC pushed the total to four by knocking off Kansas 85-51, the third worst in KU history, in the final game of the second round.
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