March Madness - 2025

[Baz]

https://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/page/bracketology/ncaa-bracketology-2025-march-madness-men-field-predictions

https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/bracketology/

Some very competitive basketball being played this season

Doesn't look good for UConn to 3-peat this year.

The SEC will send a record number of teams to The Dance this year.

[Baz]

#1 seeds right now are:

Duke, Houston, Auburn, and Florida

[Baz]

Last AP Poll ahead of the post-season:

1. Duke

2. Houston

3. Auburn*

4. Florida

5. Alabama

6. St. John's

7. Michigan State

8. Tennessee

9. Texas Tech

10. Clemson

11. Maryland

12. Iowa State

13. Louisville*

14. Texas A&M

15. Kentucky

16. Memphis

17. BYU

18. Wisconsin

19. Saint Mary's

20. Purdue

21. Missouri

22. Michigan

23. Oregon*

24. Illinois

25. Marquette

Others receiving votes: Drake, Arizona, UCLA, UC San Diego, UConn, Gonzaga, New Mexico, Creighton, Mississippi, VCU, High Point, Kansas, Akron, McNeese State, Xavier

[Baz]

https://www.ncaa.com/news/basketball-men/article/2025-03-05/2025-selection-sunday-date-schedule-tv-times

Selection Sunday for 2025 March Madness is set for Sunday, March 16. The 68-team fields for the men's and women's NCAA DI basketball tournaments will be announced during selection shows.

Here's the schedule for the 2025 men's tournament:

Selection Sunday: 6 p.m. ET Sunday, March 16 on CBS
First Four: March 18-19
First round: March 20-21
Second round: March 22-23
Sweet 16: March 27-28
Elite Eight: March 29-30
Final Four: April 5 at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas
NCAA championship game: April 7 at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas

[Baz]

SEC Tournament Second round -- Thursday, March 13
Game 5: No. 8 Ole Miss vs. No. 9 Arkansas | 1 p.m. on SEC Network
Game 6: No. 5 Texas A&M vs. Game 2 winner | 25 minutes after Game 5 on SEC Network
Game 7: No. 7 Missouri vs. No. 10 Mississippi State | 7 p.m. on SEC Network
Game 8: No. 6 Kentucky vs. No. 14 Olklahoma | 25 minutes after Game 7 on SEC Network

[Baz]

Final score: 86-77 - Florida wins the SEC Tournament over Tennessee.

I'm so happy for our players.....they put the work in.....and just got rewarded!

Selection Sunday later today at 6pm.

[Baz]

A few upsets today - especially McNeese State over Clemson. Georgia also lost and so did Louisville.

Day 1 (and today's games are not even over yet!) and only 6 % of the country's brackets remain unbroken!

[Baz]

All games can be found on one of these channels:

CBS, TBS, TNT, or TruTV

[Baz]

Congrats to Coach Cal and the Hogs!

Kansas is headed home...bwahahaa........

[Baz]

[Baz]

Sweet Sixteen:

All times ET

Thursday, March 27

(2) Alabama vs. (6) BYU, 7:09 p.m. | CBS
(1) Florida vs. (4) Maryland, 7:39 p.m. | TBS
(1) Duke vs. (4) Arizona, 9:39 p.m. | CBS
(3) Texas Tech vs. (10) Arkansas, 10:09 p.m. | TBS

Friday, March 28

(2) Michigan State vs. (6) Ole Miss, 7:09 p.m. | CBS
(2) Tennessee vs. (3) Kentucky, 7:39 p.m. | TBS
(1) Auburn vs. (5) Michigan, 9:39 p.m. | CBS
(1) Houston vs. (4) Purdue, 10:09 p.m. | TBS

[Seahawk]

Originally Posted by Baz

Saw the highlight this morning...the post game interview was great with the Floroda coach and his players.

BTW, I was in SC this weekend and was surrounded by Clemson fans...they were strangely quiet for Clemson fans

[Baz]

Originally Posted by Seahawk

Saw the highlight this morning...the post game interview was great!

BTW, I was in SC this weekend and was surrounded by Clemson fans...they were strangely quiet for Clemson fans this weekend

“The SEC now has 7 teams in the Sweet 16, the most for any conference ever at that stage of the NCAA Tournament.”

https://www.saturdaydownsouth.com/news/college-basketball/the-anti-sec-crowd-finished-opening-weekend-of-the-ncaa-tournament-silently-eating-crow/

Good read!

[URY914]

Now that the SEC has half of the universities in the country in it isn't that big of a surprize.

[onewhippedpuppy]

Some great basketball this weekend, love this time of year!

[Baz]

Originally Posted by onewhippedpuppy

Some great basketball this weekend, love this time of year!

Those last 2 games last night were intense!

[onewhippedpuppy]

Originally Posted by Baz

Those last 2 games last night were intense!

I really wanted to see CSU win, that was a heartbreaker!

[KFC911]

I caught the last 6 minutes of the Gators game ... that was awesome . I hate to say it .....

That Gator wuz GREAT ... what a game!

Then Dook .... hoot! Don't recall ever seeing a team so loaded with talent, b-ball smarts, defense, EVERYTHING... a SURE thing to win it all... for SURE !

It's gettin' good ... more great games ahead.... Madness I tellz ya!

[Baz]

Here we go....4 games tonight!!!


(2) Alabama vs. (6) BYU, 7:09 p.m. | CBS
(1) Florida vs. (4) Maryland, 7:39 p.m. | TBS
(1) Duke vs. (4) Arizona, 9:39 p.m. | CBS
(3) Texas Tech vs. (10) Arkansas, 10:09 p.m. | TBS

[Baz]

(2) Michigan State defeats (6) Ole Miss and (2) Tennessee defeated (3) Kentucky.

These two on now and are very competitive!

(1) Auburn vs. (5) Michigan, 9:39 p.m. | CBS
(1) Houston vs. (4) Purdue, 10:09 p.m. | TBS