2025 NBA mock draft: Pick projections ahead of March Madness - ESPN

March Madness is here, and there's no better time than this week and next to watch projected 2025 NBA draft picks play in their respective conference tournaments and the NCAA tournament.

There are a host of projected first-round prospects, including Duke's Cooper Flagg, Maryland's Derik Queen, Baylor's VJ Edgecombe and Oklahoma's Jeremiah Fears, whose teams are projected to be in the Big Dance.

NBA executives will lean on the next month to scout how players will perform under pressure in some of the biggest games of their careers.

The first- and second-round order was generated by ESPN's BPI forecast, which predicts how well all 30 NBA teams will perform during the rest of the season.

Notes: The draft order, as updated through Tuesday morning, reflects picks owed and owned via trades. True shooting percentage (TS%) is a formula that blends field goal percentage with free throw shooting and 3-point shooting into one catch-all ratio.

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Cooper Flagg, SF/PF, Duke
Freshman | TS%: 61.0%

Scouting report: Flagg has solidified his standing as the consensus No. 1 pick in a phenomenal freshman season that saw him improve every facet of his game, helping him exceed the expectations with which he had when he entered college. Now approaching the biggest games of his young career in the coming weeks, Flagg will try to help Duke solidify its candidacy as the No. 1 overall seed with an ACC tournament championship before trying to win six NCAA tournament games and cut down the national championship nets at the Final Four in San Antonio.

NBA intel and fit: The Wizards have done well to position