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The Elite 8 stage of the 2025 NCAA March Madness tournament is set to deliver some of the most intense and highly anticipated matchups in this year's men's and women's college basketball season.
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Texas won a regional final for the first time in four tries under coach Vic Schaefer, who previously made two Final Four trips with Mississippi State.
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South Carolina's experience shines, UCLA can play without Lauren Betts, Texas' offense is just as good as its defense, and UConn's depth is impressive as we look ahead to the Final Four.
Bueckers has scored a total of 50 points across those two games, including 28 when UConn defeated USC in the Elite Eight last year to advance to the Final Four. Bueckers has also recorded a total of 13 rebounds and eight assists and has shot 44.4 percent from the field and 35.7 percent from 3-point range against the Trojans.
The 2025 NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament is getting close to the end and on Monday, March 31 the Elite Eight wraps up, starting with the Regional 3 Birmingham bracket where the 2 seed TCU Horned Frogs take on the 1 seed Texas Longhorns at Legacy Arena at BJCC in Birmingham, Ala.
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OKC Thunder Wire on MSNMarch Madness Elite Eight: Complete wrap-up of potential OKC Thunder prospectsDuke continues to prove why they entered March Madness as the easy title favorite. An 85-65 win over Alabama showed off the clear talent gap between the Blue Devils and the rest o
The USC Trojans' loss of JuJu Watkins will really be felt in the Elite Eight matchup on Monday against Paige Bueckers and the UConn Huskies. UConn is a 13.5-point favorite at DraftKings Sportsbook for the Regional 4 final in Spokane.
Who is still playing in March Madness? See the Elite Eight teams in the NCAA Tournament, which runs on Saturday, March 29 and Sunday, March 30, 2025.
The four No. 1 seeds in the NCAA Tournament escaped the second weekend of the Big Dance and are heading to the Final Four to cap one of the chalkiest NCAA Tournaments ever. It's the first time since 2008 and just the second time since the field expanded to 64 teams in 1985 that all four No. 1 seeds are still standing at this juncture.
Texas has advanced to the Final Four for the first time since 2003 and the fourth time overall after beating TCU 58-47 in the Elite Eight. The Longhorns’ smothering defense gave the Horned Frogs fits all game long, forcing 21 turnovers and allowing only 12 made field goals on 27% shooting.
Dramatic, last-second losses by 10-seed Arkansas and 6-seed Ole Miss were the closest we got to having “surprise” entries into the Elite Eight. In fact, 3-seed Texas Tech – which needed a 16-point second-half comeback to get past the Razorbacks – is somehow the only team seeded No. 3 or lower still in the field.