Five months of the 2025 university basketball season will meet in the coming days while the four heads of series 1 of this year NCAA tournament – Auburn, Florida, Duke and Houston – will meet in San Antonio to finish March Madness with a starry Four.
It is the First time since 2008 The four heads of series are left standing in the last weekend of the tournament in a quasi-party that Goodness awaits us in the last three games of the 2024-25 season.
On the left side of the support, the seeded n ° 1 Auburn faces the enemy of the dry Florida with a first potential trip to the title game. Auburn is a narrow outsider in the game against the Gators after having fallen 90-81 in their only regular season match.
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Isaac Trotter
On the right side of the support, Duke, the preferred to win the championshipis also favored to advance in his final match four against Houston. DUKE A Sports player of the year CBS Cooper Flagg leading the best show of university hoops, but the cougars and their experienced physical team are embarrassed in the end of the season’s final.
Houston, like Florida on the other side, is not to be outdone and saved its best ball for the end. The cougars have won 30 of their last 31 times entering the weekend, while the Gators have a 15-1 file in their last 16 outings.
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2025 expert predictions of the last four
Gary Parrish
My original support included Auburn and Houston in the title match – with Auburn, winning all of this. I’m going to stick to that, if you don’t mind, in part because moving Bruce Pearl tigers to watch them win the national title would be frustrating. So, yes, I ride with the seeded n ° 1, even if it is the first time in the history of the NCAA tournament that the seeded n ° 1 is considered to be the least of the four schools of the Final Four to win the national championship.
It is a testimony to the strength of Duke, Houston and Florida – each of which is classified in front of Auburn on Kenpom.com. But the Tigers were the best team in the country for the stretching this season, and I will trust them to finish it with two other victories.
Matt Norlander
I took Houston on the selection on Sunday. Why stop now? We cannot deny how great Duke is. But Duke was beaten three times this season, and moreover, two of these three defeats came as a team in the top 20 of adjusted defensive efficiency.
This season, Duke has a 1-2 file in matches against the defense of the top-20. Houston? The cougars are 8-2 against the first 20 defenses. And Duke did not face a defense like Houston’s. The same thing goes in the other direction, but Houston almost always dictates the conversation.
As for the other side of the support, I like Auburn on Florida because the tigers have gathered their confidence. They are more and more like the dominant team that we saw in the first three months of the season. And Johni Broome should be fully capable on Saturday evening. He will be the best player on the ground. Auburn is on board. Anyway, I think we are in one of the best pairs of semi-final matches that sport has long seen.
Dennis Dodd
Sometimes it is better not to think too much about things. Duke plays the best in the tournament. Duke East The best of this tournament. Their height, their length. Their waving flag. It is a frankness ready to win everything in the third season of Jon Scheyer. The match against Houston in a semi-final is not good.
For Houston. Duke is among the highest teams in the country. As much as Houston has improved offensively this season, I imagine Milos Uzan and LJ Cryer having problems maneuvering against Sion James and Tyrese Proctor. Cooper Flagg is simply on a radiator. The best first -year student from Kyrie? Anthony Davis? Carmelo Anthony? (Choose one) can do anything. Kelvin Sampson will launch his crowd of fat in Flagg trying to slow him down. It will work, for a while. Flagg sees angles and openings that others do not see.
In the other semi-final, Auburn seems too struck to survive this match. Like Houston, Florida has lost once since February 1st. In March only, the Gators beat five best Kenpom teams by at least 14 points. The feedback against Uconn and Texas Tech Oints these Gators as a destiny team.
Almost.
In a thriller of a league match, Walter Clayton Jr. and Flagg each go for 25 with the Blue Devils winning 85-83.
Kyle Boone
For months, it feels like you have followed a collision road to see the two best teams – Auburn with the best CV and Duke with what I think is the best team – compete with everything online.
This is how I brought my support into the tournament and that is how I will predict that it starts on the last weekend.
I stick to my choice of Duke to win. He has the n ° 1 offense to go with a defense among the first five, a 3 best points in percentage and, by the way, Cooper Flagg in the center of the operation. This team has several lottery choices with length and depth to match one of the remaining possible clashes. He has no obvious faults.
The best teams do not always win the NCAA championship, of course. The 2014-15 Kentucky team is an excellent example, as is the big Duke 1998-99 team which fell into the title match. But in this case, I think that Duke, the best team, pushes it through the finish line and ends at the top to put an arc on one of the best seasons in the history of university hoops.
David COBB
Of these four teams, Florida has so far had bancal moments in the NCAA tournament. Things were tense during a second round victory over Uconn and again during a return victory over Texas Tech in the Elite Eight. But surviving these fires taught Gators how to occur in clutch situations.
Most importantly, UF emerged a hero. Walter Clayton Jr. is the best goalkeeper who remains in this tournament, and he has already shown the opportunity to hit winning fire for his team with games at stake. His clutch gene and Florida good faith in combat to help Gators will help Gators cut the net on Monday evening.
Cameron Salerne
Duke was my choice of national championship last month, so it’s just that I stick to this selection. The Blue Devils have the best player (Cooper Flagg) and the Global team. This Duke Current team reminds me of their 2015 team a bit won the national title.
Duke will face Florida Monday evening in San Antonio and win his sixth national title in the history of the program. If this happens, there will be no debate on the fact that Flagg has the best one And-Done season in the history of university basketball.
Isaac Trotter
Auburn-Duke was my prediction of a national championship game from the start, and I ride with it until the wheels fell. But as Tipoff approaches, I become more nervous. It may be just San Antonio’s atmosphere, but I think Houston can win this match much more than me when the match was official. These guards are so hard. Defense is so vicious.
But Duke discouraged Uconn Vibes all season with its size, its rim protection and an offense that creates the 3 least kept university basketball and shooting points. Talent is one thing. But the process is so solid. I think he is the differentializer.
Chip Patterson
Duke’s size helped make it the best 2 -point attack and the best 2 -point defense in the tournament and at the end of a long and exhausting tournament – in particular given the adversaries in the semi -final – being able to convert the easy points is a path to victory. Duke can do it and defend this, better than anyone and it will help win matches in this Final Four of all time.
Another way to gain in the margin?
Adjustments.
Jon Scheyer has shown several queues and adjustments at stake that helped Blue Devils flee a late Arizona team and completely closed the water for a powerful infraction in Alabama two nights later. Styles are fighting, but the possibility of adjusting styles can gain battles, and therefore it is the tenacious defense of Houston or whatever the dry power that Blue Devils can face in the title game, my expectation is that Duke will have answers to everything that is thrown in their own way.
Jerry Palm
I chose Florida at the start of the tournament because they looked like the best team that entered it. They somewhat miraculously survived a fear against Texas Tech in the regional final, but the champion generally has a game like that. The Gators had two, needing forty minutes to overshadow Uconn. Florida should have confidence in front of Auburn, having already beaten them at home.
Duke has been the best team in the tournament so far, but Houston’s defense should make Blue Devils work hard for a victory. This weekend will be the biggest challenge for Duke this season. I believe that Duke’s talent will always prevail against the cougars.
For Florida Bat Duke, their rear area, led by Walter Clayton, Jr. will have to become big, but the game could probably swing on the way Alex Condon and Thomas Haugh control painting and especially Duke Center Khaman Maluach.
