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BYU is in the Sweet 16 for the first time since 2011, while Ole Miss will return to the second weekend of the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2001.
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The top teams entering the 2025 NCAA Tournament are still alive following the Elite Eight. With Auburn's 70-64 victory over Michigan State on Sunday, all four No. 1 seeds officially clinched spots in ...
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Gabriela Jaquez scored 18 points for the Bruins and Timea Gardiner finished with 15, helping to pick up the slack went Betts went to the bench after committing two first-quarter fouls.
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Quite simply, this is not the year of the Cinderella squad. The silver lining: The second-weekend matchups are loaded.
Since N.C. State and LSU met in the Bahamas in November, the Wolfpack and Tigers have combined to win 44 of 52 games and have evolved considerably.
Villanova fired Kyle Neptune, and the Wildcats waited quite some time while the rest of the coaching market swirled. Villanova ended the year with a 19-14 overall record; the Wildcats have missed the NCAA Tournament three straight years.
The Duke and North Carolina women have faced each other 110 times, including 16 games on a neutral court, but they’ve never played in the NCAA Tournament — until Friday.
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Sporting News on MSNSweet 16 teams by conference: How mid-majors got left behind in 2025 NCAA TournamentHere's a breakdown of which conferences are represented and why mid-major schools were unable to get over the hump during this year's tournament.
Maryland: Derik Queen, who made a buzzer beater against Colorado State in the second round, puts up 16.2 points per game for the highest scoring average of any Maryland freshman since 1947-48. Queen is actually behind only Joe Smith, who had 19.4 points per game in 1994-95 before getting taken first overall in the 1995 draft.
It takes just six days to narrow the field of 68 down to 16 teams, and after that whirlwind of wall-to-wall basketball, we get to spend some time hitting reset on the NCAA Tournament picture. When the Sweet 16 tips off on Thursday and Friday with eight regional semifinal matchups across the two nights,
There isn’t as much … top of the draft talent so to speak. But it’s always worth keeping an eye on how things are going.
If you're a big fan of Cinderella stories, the Sweet 16 of the men's 2025 NCAA tournament might not be for you. It's going to be an awesome round of games. However, there's no Saint Peter's or Oral Roberts ready to pull off more mid-major magic. Everyone left in this year's Big Dance realistically could win four more games.