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Eight Sweet 16 games will take place across Thursday, March 27 and Friday, March 28.
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The Women's NCAA Tournament has reached the national semifinals after some thrilling games down the stretch in the Sweet 16 and Elite Eight.
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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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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.
The NCAA Tournament is here for men's basketball. The American-Statesman staff has full brackets and Final Four predictions for March Madness.
If your bracket is busted, you are not alone, so here's what our experts would do if given a chance to reset their predictions
Last year, there were only four brackets that remained perfect after the first two rounds of the women’s tournament.
Statesman staff completed it's NCAA women's tournament brackets. But how many got the right picks for the Sweet 16?
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.
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.
Fans of Oregon State will recognize at least one familiar face in Oklahoma standout Raegan Beers, who has helped lead a program to a second straight Sweet 16 after helping the Beavers a year ago. Though Beers has been strong, the Huskies have run away from their opponents through two rounds and look too dominant to stop.