NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 tips on Thursday. Seven SEC teams are part of the 2025 March Madness Sweet 16, including Kentucky and Tennessee. The two longtime SEC rivals will face off with a trip to the Elite Eight on the line on Friday at 7:39 p.

The NCAA Tournament is here for men's basketball. The American-Statesman staff has full brackets and Final Four predictions for March Madness.

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.

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This year's Sweet 16 features no mid-majors — a first since the bracket expanded to 64 teams in 1985 — with the SEC (a record-seven teams) and Big Ten (four) dominating the field. There are only four conferences with teams playing in the round and that's the fewest in NCAA Tournament history.

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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.

Fans of Oregon State will recognize at least one familiar face in Oklahoma standout Raegan Beers, who has helped lead a program to a second straight Sweet 16 after helping the Beavers a year ago. Though Beers has been strong, the Huskies have run away from their opponents through two rounds and look too dominant to stop.