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Eight Sweet 16 games will take place across Thursday, March 27 and Friday, March 28.
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The 2025 Women’s NCAA Tournament begins on Wednesday, March 19 and runs through Sunday, April 6.
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This quartet has been the best four teams in the country for the majority of the season, and are the top-four in the NET rankings.
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The NCAA Tournament is here for men's basketball. The American-Statesman staff has full brackets and Final Four predictions for March Madness.
NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 tips on Thursday. Seven SEC teams are part of the 2025 March Madness Sweet 16, including Kentucky and Tennessee. The two longtime SEC rivals will face off with a trip to the Elite Eight on the line on Friday at 7:39 p.
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Thomas Casale is on a 60-36 run in college basketball picks and just revealed his second-chance 2025 March Madness bracket
Last year, there were only four brackets that remained perfect after the first two rounds of the women’s tournament.
This year's Sweet 16 features no mid-majors — a first since the bracket expanded to 64 teams in 1985 — with the SEC (a record-seven teams) and Big Ten (four) dominating the field. There are only four conferences with teams playing in the round and that's the fewest in NCAA Tournament history.
The biggest bracket buster so far was No. 9 seed Indiana's 76-68 win over No. 8 seed Utah in the first round, ending 1.2 million perfect brackets. No. 10 Oregon's 77-73 overtime win over No. 7 Vanderbilt in the first round took out an additional 633,227.
Statesman staff completed it's NCAA women's tournament brackets. But how many got the right picks for the Sweet 16?
It's been tough sledding for Ayoka Lee in the Sweet 16 matchup, as the 6-foot-6 center has struggled to counteract USC's two-headed center combo of Marshall and Clarice Akunwafo. Lee has 10 points with three minutes to play but has needed 13 shots to get there.