It's been tough sledding for Ayoka Lee in the Sweet 16 matchup, as the 6-foot-6 center has struggled to counteract USC's two-headed center combo of Marshall and Clarice Akunwafo. Lee has 10 points with three minutes to play but has needed 13 shots to get there.

2025 NCAA Tournament favorites went a perfect 12-0 in both rounds. Favorites are also 50-13 straight-up in the 2025 tournament. The Final Four doesn't contain any surprising teams, as all four No. 1 seeds are still alive.

Who is playing in Final Four? See the national semifinal teams in the March Madness NCAA Tournament and schedule, which runs on Saturday, April 5.

I've got more March Madness for you today, including some NIT thoughts. I also want to talk about NFL kickoffs and, separately, tattoos? But first, another update on the Reason Friends and Family Bracket Contest.

For the first time since multiple teams from the same conference could even enter the NCAA tournament, the ACC failed to get two into the second round. Time for some soul-searching.

And that extends to the 2025 Final Four participants, powerhouse programs who separated themselves from the rest of the field early in the regular season. Florida, Houston, Duke and Auburn were always great,

Florida survived third-seed Texas Tech while Duke didn't need any late-game heroics to secure a bid to San Antonio as the second No. 1 seed

No. 1 Texas and No. 2 UConn won their respective Elite Eight matchups on Monday night to wrap up the second weekend of the women's NCAA tournament. The Longhorns fended off Hailey Van Lith and TCU to reach their first Final Four since 2003,