The Ultimate 4 for the 2025 NCAA males’s basketball match is about 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 among the largest winners and losers from Sunday’s Elite Eight motion.
Winner: No. 1 seeds
For under the second time for the reason that 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 sport on Sunday.
Houston dominated Tennessee on its strategy to a 19-point win, whereas Auburn used a 17-0 first-half run towards Michigan State to leap out to an enormous first-half lead it might by no means hand over.
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 sport towards Houston.
That 15-point efficiency was traditionally dangerous for a workforce seeded that prime within the match.
