Women's March Madness: Sweet 16 live updates, scores - ESPN
The regional semifinals have arrived. The Sweet 16 of the 2025 NCAA tournament has tipped off, and by Friday night, four teams will be one step closer to Tampa.
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Duke relies on length, elite athleticism to beat Arizona and advance to Elite Eight
NEWARK, N.J. — Peeking out from beneath the back-to-back 3-pointers by Anthony Dell'Orso in the opening four minutes, sneaking a glance from behind the double-clutch floater by Jaden Bradley that extended Arizona's early lead shortly thereafter, were the intermittent glimpses of fragility and fool's gold that seemed destined — desperate, even — to undermine any bid for an upset at Prudential Center on Thursday night. To drain the life from three separate fan bases whose allegiances here at the Sweet 16 were temporarily aligned and fused by a shared disdain for Duke, the top seed in the East Regional and a perennial national championship contender. That the Blue Devils' boast three potential lottery picks, including presumptive No. 1 selection Cooper Flagg, the five-star freshman sensation and front-runner to be named Naismith College Player of the Year, has begun to bathe this season with an air of inevitability.
2025 college basketball men's championship odds - ESPN
The 2025 NCAA men's basketball championship game will be played April 7 at the Alamodome in San Antonio. Tops seeds Duke, Florida, Auburn and Houston are the favorites while two-time defending champions UConn opened at 125-1 to three-peat but were eliminated by Florida in the second round.
Cooper Flagg scores 30, leads Duke over Arizona and into Elite 8 - ESPN
NEWARK, N.J. — Duke's Cooper Flagg put on a skills clinic and overcame an onslaught from Arizona and Caleb Love, finishing with 30 points, six rebounds, seven assists and three blocks Thursday night in a 100-93 NCAA tournament victory that pulled the Blue Devils within one win of the Final Four.
Inside the mind of Duke's Cooper Flagg: 'He wants to destroy his competition’
NEWARK, N.J. — Kelly Flagg remembers the scene like it was yesterday.
Kevin Love says young 'unicorns' taking basketball to 'amazing place' - ESPN
As a freshman at UCLA nearly 20 years ago, Kevin Love was viewed as a unique talent because of his passing ability and offensive versatility, but the five-time NBA All-Star said there is a new crop of «unicorns» that are more advanced than players of his generation at this stage.
Picking every women's March Madness Sweet 16 game - ESPN
The next stage is set for the 2025 women's NCAA tournament. While upsets were largely scarce across the first two rounds, that guarantees us some heavy-hitting showdowns at the regionals in Birmingham, Alabama, and Spokane, Washington.
Women's March Madness 2025: Ranking every Sweet 16 team - ESPN
Editor's note: This story was posted before USC announced that JuJu Watkins had suffered a season-ending knee injury and will miss the rest of the 2025 women's NCAA tournament. ESPN's Shams Charania reports that Watkins suffered a torn ACL in her right knee.