Breaking Down NCAA Tournament Final 4
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On Monday, Texas left little doubt in a suffocating defensive effort against Hailey Van Lith and No. 2 TCU.
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Auburn and Michigan State collide in a clash of veteran coaches, toughness and tempo — Bruce Pearl’s blazing Tigers meeting Tom Izzo’s tournament-tested Spartans.
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No. 1 Florida erased a double-digit deficit in the second half against No. 3 Texas Tech to beat the Red Raiders 84-79 and win the West Region inside Chase Center in San Francisco.
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And in the late game, No. 1 USC is as an underdog against No. 2 UConn, led by star guard Paige Bueckers. The Trojans, despite losing star JuJu Watkins to a season-ending injury earlier in the tournament, managed to survive their Sweet 16 matchup against Kansas State. But UConn will provide a much stiffer test.
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Bueckers has scored a total of 50 points across those two games, including 28 when UConn defeated USC in the Elite Eight last year to advance to the Final Four. Bueckers has also recorded a total of 13 rebounds and eight assists and has shot 44.4 percent from the field and 35.7 percent from 3-point range against the Trojans.
Since March Madness expanded to 64 teams in 1985, the only other year that all four top-seeded teams from their respective regions earned Final Four spots was 2008. That year, Kansas won a national title with an overtime victory over Memphis.
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Florida and Duke have already secured a spot in San Antonio for the 2025 Final Four. On Sunday, the Gators and Blue Devils will find out their semifinal opponents as champions emerge from the Midwest and South regions in Elite Eight action.
The 2025 NCAA women's basketball tournament continued on Sunday, with two of the four Elite Eight matchups in the books. South Carolina took down Duke by the score of 54-50 in the first contest, as head coach Dawn Staley's squad clinched a spot in the Final Four for the fifth consecutive season.
And then there was one. TCU’s 71-62 win over Notre Dame on Saturday took out six perfect brackets in the women’s NCAA Tournament, leaving one out of 3.2 million on ESPN’s bracket tracker.
The road to the Final Four of the men's NCAA Tournament has nearly reached its last stop.