Where does Clemson’s loss in the men’s NCAA Tournament rank on ESPN’s list of those that hurt the most?
ESPN released a men’s March Madness Pain Index, breaking down every team’s exit into eight different tiers.
Clemson suffered a first-round NCAA Tourney exit for the second straight season. This year, the eighth-seeded Tigers fell to No. 9 seed Iowa by a score of 67-61 in the South Regional at Benchmark International Arena in Tampa, Fla. on March 20.
In ESPN’s March Madness Pain Index, which ranks the losses from most painful (No.