Following a 79–61 blowout loss to No. 10 seed Miami in Sunday’s second round of the NCAA tournament, Auburn coach Bruce Pearl did not mince words when discussing the SEC’s record in the Big Dance.
“The SEC will get crushed for our tournament performance. We just beat each other up all year. It was just a grind. We didn’t show it in the tournament,” Pearl said.
Five of the six SEC teams in the tournament failed to make it to the Sweet 16, and all five were eliminated by a double-digit seed.
