NCAA men's Final Four features all four No. 1 seeds, who has the edge?
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Mar 31, 2025
The NCAA's Final Four is set and for the first time in 16 years all four No. 1 seeds have made it. Which team will have the edge Saturday?
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For only the second time since the NCAA tournament field went to 64 teams in 1985
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all four number one seeds are in the final four. The last time it happened, 2008
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So if they're all equally good, who has the advantage come Saturday
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We'll start with the overall number one Auburn, who knocked off Alabama State
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Creighton, Michigan, and Michigan State to make it this far. They got a scare during Sunday's win when Star Center, Janine Broome, left the
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the game with an elbow injury. He returned to hit a three-pointer and lift the Tigers to a 70-64 win
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Confident as ever, Coach Bruce Pearl knows what's next. I told our guys right now, we haven't
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beaten a team yet that I thought was better than us. And that's why we're the overall number one
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seed. And now we're going to the final four where there are four or one seats. And I think the four
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teams that are advanced, I think there are four best teams in the country. That doesn't obviously
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always happen. The Tigers will match up with their S-E-E-E-E. EC rival Florida in the first final four game. The Gators beat Norfolk State, Yukon
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Maryland, and Texas Tech, and they've won 10 straight ball games to this point. They needed
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a come from behind effort to beat the Red Raiders Saturday, and Walter Clayton Jr. was the
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catalyst with two late three-pointers. I think I've definitely seen them, you know, a couple shots
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when they're kind of turned around, look at a look at a bench like how. So honestly
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nothing was going through my mom. My mom was kind of just blank. Thank you
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Shots went in, but, you know, we was locked in until the final buzzer sounded
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So my mind was blank, honestly. On the other side of the bracket the Duke Blue Devils have been dominant all season And even with star freshman Cooper Flagg ankle injury in the ACC tournament they have not missed a beat crushing Mount St Mary Baylor Arizona and Alabama
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en route to their 18th Final Four appearance. Their defense is as dominant as their offensive
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game, making them the favorites to win the title. To hold them to 65 points is incredible
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You know, watching them play the other night, you know, they score 113, 25 threes. I think the biggest thing for us
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was not to take the bait of getting so spread. You know, three, Youngblood, Holloway
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and Sears had 21 of the 25-3s. And so for us still, we want to use our length and size
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and these guys did an incredible job. And speaking of defense, Houston has been the best in the country
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in that category all season long. They shut down S IU, Edwardsville, Gonzaga
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Purdue, and Tennessee to make it to the final four for the second time in four seasons
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They own the nation's longest winning streak at 17 games by using that defense
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They held the VALS to 15 first half points, the fewest in an elite eight game in 46 years
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I think we've won 30 plus games five times, but this is the first time we've won 34 games
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And I'm glad this team did it. This was a, the maturity level of our older guys has been good for our young guys
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So only two more wins to a national championship for Kelvin Sampson and the rest of the four teams
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The first game in San Antonio, Florida, and Auburn tips at 609 Eastern Time, followed by Duke and Houston
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We'll have more on how these teams match up as the week progresses. For Straight Arrow News, I'm Chris Francis
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