NCAA tournament 2025 Bracket Watch: Auburn and Duke Avoiding are an intelligent final Four Play

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If you are a team that wants to do the final Four in April, she wouldn't have to play on the way from Auburn or Duke. It becomes clearer.

It is so clear that it is often said until the tournament that one of you on the first weekend for an 8: 9 devil, as the bracket made possible this week? This is the beauty of this tournament, which does not need any changes and certainly no expansion. Such things happen every year.

However, logic and probability say: avoid these two. The best way? Is a seed No. 1. The legitimate contenders for the other two places? I count four.

Auburn is not currently playing its best basketball of the season, but the tigers have the highest self -confidence in late game. And they have Johni Broome, whose 31 and 14 ensured that Georgia would not make things too interesting on Saturday. Duke did the things in a 110-67 eyes in a 110-67 eyes on Saturday in Madison Square Garden that was not as close as the end result to silence a weak Acc, which Cooper potentially cost, and the struggles flag a No. 1 -Aatgut.

This is a No. 1 seed. In the last few weeks of the regular season and/or the conference tournament, show me a few breathtaking ACC disorders and we can speak. But at the moment Duke is put aside with Auburn.

The other seeds of No. 1, Florida and Alabama, obviously belong to the discussion. So also the top No. 2 seeds, Tennessee and Houston in this order. After the impressive street victory of the Vols against the Aggies, I have fallen out of the race on Saturday, in which UT-Senior Point Guard Zakai Schraßler kept taking his all-America case with a takeover in the second half.

The aggies remain a No. 2 seeds. If you win in Florida and defeat Auburn at home before the regular season ends, are you under discussion again? Absolutely. The state Iowa could get well and also make a tear. Even the two top no. 3-seeds, Wisconsin and Michigan State, could theoretically do cases by dominating them from here, although both probably have the 2-line as a ceiling.

Say logic and probability that Florida, Alabama, Tennessee and Houston will fight for the last two No. 1 seeds. Together with Auburn and Duke, these are currently their top -six in both curriculum vitas and in predictive figures. As a memory, the TOP No. 2 cannot be coordinated with the total name of number 1 – with a lot of certainty. But it could still get the other monster.

So here is what is ahead of the conference tournaments that could swing things. Houston gets a return from Kansas and goes to Baylor. Tennessee goes to Ole Miss. Florida has the Texas A&M game mentioned above and also travels to Alabama. Alabama travels to Tennessee. And houses the state Mississippi. And goes to Auburn.

We could come back to No. 1 Alabama in a few weeks. Or to No. 3 seeds Alabama. The probability is in between and a rear of a nap that is required in front of the Crimson Tide Trek to Nashville.

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