The Ultimate 4 for the 2025 NCAA males’s basketball match is ready due to wins by Houston (69-50) over Tennessee, and Auburn (70-64) over Michigan State.
Houston and Auburn now be part of Florida and Duke on this 12 months’s Ultimate 4 in San Antonio the place they may play for the nationwide championship.
Listed below are a number of the largest winners and losers from Sunday’s Elite Eight motion.
Winner: No. 1 seeds
For under the second time because the NCAA males’s match expanded to 64 groups, the Ultimate 4 will function all 4 No. 1 seeds. Florida and Duke took care of their enterprise on Saturday, whereas Auburn and Houston did the identical on Sunday.
And there was little or no doubt in both recreation on Sunday.
Houston dominated Tennessee on its technique to a 19-point win, whereas Auburn used a 17-0 first-half run in opposition to Michigan State to leap out to an enormous first-half lead it could by no means surrender.
The 2008 match was the one different time all 4 No. 1 seeds superior to the Ultimate 4.
Loser: Tennessee’s first half
The Volunteers picked absolutely the worst time of the season for his or her offense to desert them, scoring simply 15 factors within the first half of Sunday’s Elite Eight recreation in opposition to Houston.
That 15-point efficiency was traditionally unhealthy for a staff seeded that top within the match.
