Each seeded n ° 1 progressed in the second round of the NCAA 2025 tournament and a single two -digit seed – Pre -season n ° 16 ArkansasA seed n ° 10 – is always dancing while we are preparing for the Sweet 16. But guess what? Even a piece of chalk in the action has left the supports broken.
Yes, all: Sunday, no The perfect supports remained at CBS Sports.
Not even mine.
So, with the rest of the supports of our CBS team, also a mess (our title choices are always alive: give us a credit!), I took the freedom to extend our experts a Gob of Grace to reset their supports with the Sweet 16. A new slate, if you want.
Our blows below to reset the slate are below.
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Gary Parrish, initiated university basketball
Original choice for champion:: Auburn
I appreciate the opportunity to “reset” my support – but I will only make changes if necessary, which means that I will keep Auburn as projected champion.
Do I like it?
No, I don’t like it – especially since Auburn has only 3-3 in his last six games and ranked 32nd at the national level, to Barttorvik.comin this period. The tigers of Bruce Pearl slipped from the first to the fourth Kenpom.com Since the start of season 24-2.
None of this is good.
But, for the most part of this season, Auburn was the best team in the country – and there is no alignment season that Tigers cannot come back to it. So I stick to Houes The first Monday evening in April.
Matt Norlander, Senior Impaler of University Basketball
Original choice for champion:: Houes
Well, all in all, my support is not a pure and simple disaster. I lost St. John’s (final choice of four), but my three others are still alive. And at the start, I had Auburn against the state of Michigan, Duke vs Alabama, Houston against Kentucky and Maryland against SJU in the elite eight. So there is not much to do here, but I have to choose a new winner of the West.
As much as I like maryland (and the terps upset the gators in a reptile rumble), I will go with Texas Tech to emerge. The Red Raiders classified the first 10 in advanced measurements for two months at this stage. The Grant McCasland team has an offense among the first five, led by an All-American at JT Toppin and can match the other three teams. So give me the Red Raiders. Since my choice of title, there has been nothing to change. I have had Houston from the start and I will continue to support the coogs thanks to what it is the best offensive team of Kelvin Sampson since he arrived.
Dennis Dodd, principal writer
Original choice for champion:: Houes
Having watched Houston now skate through the Big 12 tournament and in Sweet 16, cougars have many samples. In other words, if part of their game goes wrong, there is always another to save him. The generally suffocating defense fell a little against Gonzaga in the second round. The cougars have in fact abandoned their more points in more than seven weeks. No problem, guard LJ Cryer Equal to a career summit with 30 points. Kelvin Sampson has three big who can defend and mark – a luxury for any team. But the rear area of Cryer and Milos Uzan are now one of the best in the country. The last time Houston was a better Guy V. Lewis sported a towel and Phi Slama Jama redefined the game. These couguars simply cross the support in a working style. .
Kyle Boone, university basketball writer
Original choice for champion:: Duke
If the university basketball gods cannot deliver a Cinderella in March, the least he can do is set up a date between the two teams that were the best from the point of view of the curriculum vitae or the metrics – or both, depending on the timing – in Auburn and Duke.
Duke is on a historical trajectory after driving the nation on the sidelines and exploding through the first two towers without sweat. Auburn’s regular season earned him the seeded n ° 1 after winning the dry in a good record year for the League.
It seems that all season was a constant drum beat working towards a collision class for these two to test themselves in the final of the season. I take the Blue Devils to descend the Tigers, as they did earlier this season in Durham, to punctuate his big season with a victory on the team that spent more time than any other in n ° 1 this season. Duke will cut the nets in San Antonio, and there will be no doubt as to if he won it.
David Cobb, university basketball writer
Original choice for champion:: Florida
Florida was my original choice to win everything, and I stick to the Gators, despite the fact that they were pushed in the second round by the seed Uconn. UF has the best group of guards in the support, and we all know how important the game is at this time of the year. The third year coach Todd Golden has never been so far in an NCAA tournament before, but the team he formed is good enough to overcome this inexperience. In fact, the Gators have in five victories of the six other dry teams which have always left for this tranche.
Cameron Salerno, a university basketball writer
Original choice for champion:: Duke
Duke was my choice of national title earlier this month, so it’s just that I stick to this selection. The Blue Devils looked like the best team of the NCAA tournament. Duke is on a collision class to meet the Florida in the match for the national title next month in San Antonio.
Chip Patterson, academic basketball writer
Original choice for champion:: Duke
No change in my Final Four, because the four teams, and seven of my eight eight eight original are still alive. If anything, the point to remember from the opening weekend more embraced me by the choice of Duke Crayous. Dan Hurley said last weekend that Florida reminded her of his UCONN teams in terms of alignment construction, but Blue Devils seem to have a UCONN type tournament winning each match with a two-digit margin. Tyrese Proctor warms up at the right time, and Cooper FlaggTime out of the field only seemed to energize it for this last push to the greatest goal of sport.
Jerry Palm, expert in crochetology
Original choice for champion:: Florida
My original choices are always alive, so I stick to them. Florida was less than stellar, its last against Uconn, but even if the Huskies have had a relatively difficult season, they are still the reigning champions. I did not expect them to abandon him easily. Duke seems just as dominant as they trampled through the ACC, but the Gators were the class of the best conference in the history of university hoops at the end, if not for the whole season. I always ride in Florida.
Isaac Trotter, a university basketball writer
Original choice for champion:: Duke
I had duc, auburn, Texas Tech And Houston in my final oven when the support was released for the first time. I stick to my rifles, the Red Raider style. The support was certainly opened for Texas Tech after the second seeded Saint-Jean I went down. Arkansas will be a chore, but Texas Tech is in a solid place. I will continue to hit the Auburn drum. I would be amazed if the tigers could not advance from this region. You can argue that this Arizona The game will be more difficult for Duke than the one he will face in the elite eight. If Duke goes down, that’s the place. I always have the Blue Devils who win the national championship, but it’s going to be a huge test. Meanwhile, I thought that the winner of Houston-Gonzaga would go to the Final Four. I will stick to it. If it is not broken, do not repair it.