The Remaining 4 for the 2025 NCAA males’s basketball event is about because of wins by Houston (69-50) over Tennessee, and Auburn (70-64) over Michigan State.
Houston and Auburn now be a part of Florida and Duke on this 12 months’s Remaining 4 in San Antonio the place they’ll play for the nationwide championship.
Listed here are a number of the largest winners and losers from Sunday’s Elite Eight motion.
Winner: No. 1 seeds
For less than the second time because the NCAA males’s event expanded to 64 groups, the Remaining 4 will characteristic 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 option 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 will by no means hand over.
The 2008 event was the one different time all 4 No. 1 seeds superior to the Remaining 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 towards Houston.
That 15-point efficiency was traditionally unhealthy for a crew seeded that top within the event.
