The 2025 NCAA Tournament bracket was revealed on Sunday the SEC, as expected, was rewarded heavily for one of the best seasons in history for a single conference. There were 14 teams from the SEC that heard their names called during Selection Sunday 2025, including the Tennessee Volunteers, who are a No. 2 seed in the Midwest Region of the 2025 NCAA bracket despite losing the SEC Tournament title to Florida earlier in the day. Tennessee will take on No. 15 Wofford in the first round, which officially begins on Thursday after NCAA Tournament First Four games are held in Dayton on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Meanwhile, the Auburn Tigers are the No. 1 overall seed after winning the SEC regular-season title and will head to the South Region. Head coach Bruce Pearl guided the Tigers to a Final Four in 2019, but can the Tigers make a deep run in the 2025 March Madness bracket after failing to make it past the first weekend the last three seasons? Before making any 2025 March Madness bracket predictions, be sure to check out the 2025 NCAA Tournament bracket picks from the proven computer model at SportsLine.
Their proven projection model has simulated every game in the tournament 10,000 times. It has absolutely crushed its March Madness picks recently, beating over 91 percent of all CBS Sports brackets in four of the past six tournaments. It was all over UConn’s championship run a year ago and nailed 13 teams in the Sweet 16. It also nailed Alabama’s Cinderella run to the Final Four as a 4-seed.
It knows how to spot an upset as well. The same model has produced brackets that have nailed 24 first-round upsets by double-digit seeds since its inception in 2016. There’s simply no reason to rely on luck when there’s proven technology to help you dominate your 2025 March Madness bracket picks.
Now, with the 2025 NCAA bracket revealed, the model is simulating the matchups and its results are in. You can only see it over at SportsLine.
Three 2025 March Madness bracket games to watch
One of the most intriguing 2025 March Madness matchups to watch: No. 5 Michigan vs. No. 12 UC San Diego in the South region. The Wolverines won the 2025 Big Ten Tournament with a gritty 59-53 win over Wisconsin on Sunday and seven-footers Vladislav Goldin and Danny Wolf give Michigan serious presence in the paint. That size will be incredibly difficult to match up with for a UC San Diego squad that doesn’t have anybody over 6-foot-8 in its regular rotation. However, the Tritons are 30-game winners and they’re one of the best defensive teams in the country, ranking sixth nationally in points allowed per game (61.6) and 11th in field-goal percentage allowed (39.6%) on their way to Big West regular-season and tournament titles.
Another 2025 NCAA Tournament matchup to keep an eye on is No. 8 Louisville vs. No. 9 Creighton in the South Region. The Cardinals came up one win short of their first ACC Tournament championship ever, but Pat Kelsey’s first season in Louisville was still a resounding success with 27 wins. However, the Cardinals will square off with an experienced Creighton squad that has been to the Sweet 16 or better in three of the last four seasons. Ryan Kalkbrenner averaged 19.4 points, 8.8 rebounds and 2.7 blocks per game and is a four-time Big East Defensive Player of the Year.
Another 2025 March Madness game to watch out for: No. 4 seed Texas A&M will battle No. 13 seed Yale in the South Region. Yale won the Ivy League over Cornell on Sunday 90-84 and the Bulldogs won an NCAA Tournament game last year with an upset of Auburn. Fourth-year guard John Poulakida led the team with 19.0 points per game. Texas A&M also hung its hat on a recent win over Auburn, earning its first-ever win over a No. 1 team by beating the Tigers on March 4. Wade Taylor and Zhuric Phelps combine to give the Aggies one of the most dynamic backcourts in college basketball. You can see the model’s 2025 NCAA bracket picks here.
How to make 2025 NCAA bracket predictions
Who wins every tournament-defining matchup? And which teams will make surprising runs through the 2025 NCAA Tournament bracket? With the model’s track record of calling bracket-busting upsets, you’ll want to see which stunners it’s calling this year before locking in any 2025 NCAA bracket picks.
So what’s the optimal NCAA Tournament 2025 bracket? And which NCAA Tournament Cinderella teams will shock college basketball? Visit SportsLine now to see which double-digit seeds you can back with confidence, all from the model that called UConn’s national title and nailed 13 Sweet 16 teams in 2024.
