2025 Final Four Picks: Expert predictions for Auburn vs Florida, Duke vs Houston Games in March Madness

We finally arrived at the largest scene in university basketball, the Final Four 2025, and after an NCAA tournament which began to look towards chalk from the first laps, the story was made with the second time with the four heads of standard n ° 1 for the tournament tournament.

What the tournament has produced with this Final Four filled with heads n ° 1 is the challenges of the champion of this year for having endured one of the most difficult races of all time. Whether it is Auburn, Duke, Houston or Florida who cut the Nets of San Antonio, this team will have won the honor of being crowned champion after surviving two laps against other top four talents. And all this happens after each of the last four participants had to face the seeded n ° 2 or n ° 3 in the elite eight and is a seeded n ° 4 or n ° 5 in the Sweet 16. There is “the chance of the support” to find with this group, just a quartet of the university basketball teams which worked consistently at the top of the sport during most of the season.

The festivities on Saturday will manage with an all-sec battle between Auburn and Florida at the start of the game (6:09 p.m. HE), developing the Tigers as champions of the regular season and Gators as champions of the tournament tournament which was one of the best people and will establish a new record with 14 teams in the 68-year-old field. Then he will be from Duke. Offensive n ° 1 of the nation and defense n ° 2 collided, putting Sports player of the year CBS Cooper Flagg under the spotlight against his most difficult competition in college to date.

Of course, with games of this issue and of this magnitude, there will be different opinions on the choices to be won. We have assembled selections both directly and against the spread of our panel of experts, and we offered a ventilation of each of the national semi-finals of the Final Four on Saturday.

Rating via Sportsline consensus | All time is

(1) Auburn against (1) Florida

6:09 p.m. on CBS | March Madness Live: Auburn recently experienced a series of slow departures, except when they faced another slow team in the state of Michigan. The tigers are 1-7 against the first half in the last eight games and 4-11 in their last 15, a duration which dates back to the defeat against Florida on February 8. The Gators, on the other hand, have linked or led half-time in each of their last 10 games and can involve their bench early to test the depth of Auburn.

The familiarity in gold Bruce Pearl-Todd could produce a little dead end in the first half-the first half less than 76.5 is also worth it-but I count on Auburn to pivot on his best game and his output after half-time. Florida closed well at the end of the 1st half a few times during this race in the playoff series, “winning” the last 10 minutes of the second half in five of the seven games between the Dry and NCAA tournament, and these habits should feed a half-time advance for the Gators. Choose: Florida 1h -1.5

(1) Duke against (1) Houston

8:49 p.m. on CBS | March Madness Live: For all the deserved attention that goes to the defense of Houston, there is the slightly less discussed aspect of the defense of Duke, who ranks fifth at the national level worldwide in defensive efficiency and only after Houston among the final participants. It is a group that has just maintained the 25-point Alabama below its average marking of the season in a victory of 85-65 and has granted more than 70 points twice in their last 15 games (since February 12).

Now there are results where Houston can win the match and end up going through this total team, but even these scenarios speak of a game that is played at a slower pace with a grinding style. The length of Duke at the edge is configured to limit Houston’s ability to obtain easy buckets, which will in turn contribute to a lower score overall. Choose: Total of the Houston team within 66.5