CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — A full regular-season schedule didn’t provide a clear answer as to who is the best team in the majority of the power conferences.
No. 2 Virginia and No. 3 North Carolina ended up sharing the Atlantic Coast Conference’s regular-season championship. No. 9 Michigan State and No. 11 Purdue split the Big Ten. And in the Big 12, No. 8 Texas Tech and No. 18 Kansas State finished atop the league standings to end No. 13 Kansas’ run at the top.
Of the five power conferences, only No. 10 LSU in the Southeastern Conference and Washington in the Pac-12 ended up winning their league races outright.