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Your guide to the men's Final Four: Auburn-Florida, Duke-Houston (with picks!)
Here's how each team can win Saturday's semifinals, plus their potential flaws and predictions for both games.

Why this Final Four will be 'absolutely incredible'
We get to watch 10 of the most efficient teams of all time match up -- and that's a good thing.
TOP HEADLINES

'IT IS GOING ON AROUND THE COUNTRY'
Far from the March Madness spotlight, college hoops grapples with a gambling problem
All eyes are on the Final Four, but college athletics officials are worried about suspicious bets on games featuring smaller schools.

NBA DRAFT
Tatum? Pippen? NBA execs share best comps for projected No. 1 pick Cooper Flagg
Ahead of the Final Four, NBA execs share their comparisons for the Duke star and projected No. 1 draft pick.

WHO REIGNS SUPREME?
Ranking the Final Four: The No. 1 overall seed doesn't top the rest
These are the best four teams after five months of college basketball. Who reigns supreme among this group?

CALL IT HEARTBREAK
Pain Index: Where do Arkansas, Purdue, other second-weekend team losses rank?
Some losses are understandable; others will haunt us forever. Let's rank the 2025 men's NCAA tournament defeats, from least to most devastating.

WHO'S ON THE MOVE?
Ranking the top 50 men's basketball transfers to enter the portal
See who has joined our rankings as we expand them from 25 to 50 players one week after the portal opened.
Coaching tracker: Latest on Maryland with Kevin Willard headed to Villanova
The second wave of coaching carousel dominoes are starting to fall. Here's the latest buzz.
'The whole thing is chaos': The art of the March Madness buzzer-beater

WHAT WENT WRONG?
Under or overachievers? Lunardi grades teams eliminated in Sweet 16, Elite Eight
From Alabama to Texas Tech, which top programs eliminated from the 2025 tournament underachieved, overachieved -- or landed somewhere in between?
Top Headlines
- Willard downplays flak: 'Time everyone moved on'
- Williams confident in Maryland's commitment
- Beard tells Ole Miss he's staying, sources say
- Oklahoma freshman Fears entering NBA draft
- ASU's Quaintance has knee surgery, eyes portal
- Flagg, Broome headline Wooden Award final five
- Co-MVP Peterson leads West to All American win
- UNC's Davis, Trojans' Watkins pace NIL market
- What's next for the eliminated teams?
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