Jay Bilas picks every single game in the 2025 men's NCAA basketball tournament - ESPN

Every year, the «College GameDay» crew staffs «The Bracketology Show» on Selection Sunday. And every year, we are handed a bracket by one of our crack assistants to fill out… in a grand total of five minutes. We make our rushed, thoughtless selections so they can be displayed to the unwashed masses.

We know there will be upsets, but which ones? When we pick upsets, we are called reckless. When we go with the «better team,» we are called gutless. (Of course, both are true.)

Sure, we complain. Wouldn't it be great if we had more time to contemplate our selections? That's where this column comes in — my «More Than Five Minute» bracket. Usually, I make picks with confidence. This year, though, the field is full of question marks, inconsistent teams and injury questions — coin flips, educated guesses and head-scratchers.

Fitting, for one of the craziest, most interesting basketball seasons on record. The SEC left us all breathless with praise; we have never seen such a powerful league, top to bottom, relative to the field. The SEC earned 14 bids to the NCAA tournament, a record that is unlikely to be broken (unless we go to 30-team leagues in the future); the league has four top-2 seeds and six top-4 seeds, which are also records.

Of course, that does not mean that the national champion will come from the SEC. It doesn't work that way. Maybe it will even come from the ACC, which received four bids, tied for its lowest since 2013 — and that included North Carolina, the last team selected, confounding bracketologists everywhere. The Tar Heels played a tough schedule, but they did not win against it. Heads exploded when North Carolina showed up on the board.

Six teams in this year's field have won at least 30 games (with three