The 2025 March Madness hasn’t been filled with much Cinderella. The Elite 8 consisted of all one and two seeds and Texas Tech being the only three seed.
According to USA Today, all four one seeds, three of the four two seeds, and one No. 3 seed in the elite eight combines the seed total to 13 the smallest number in the elite eight since 2007.
Last year’s elite eight was 32, 2023 was 37, and 2024 was 47. To most, the Cinderellas are what makes March Madness such a madness.
Two seed Alabama (East), one seed Florida (West), one seed Duke (East), three seed Texas Tech (West), two seed Michigan State (South), two seed Tennessee (Midwest), one seed Auburn (South), and one seed Houston (Midwest). Those were the elite eight teams that battled off this past weekend.
Resulting in, Florida coming out on top of Texas Tech, Duke beating Alabama comfortably, Auburn defeating Michigan State, and Houston overcoming Tennessee.
The four one seeds made the Final Four for the first time since 2008. Duke will play Houston Saturday, April 5. Auburn will play Florida the same day.
With the 14 SEC teams that were entered into the tournament, two remain. One of the seven BIG12 are left, and one of the four ACC. The BIG Ten conference had the second highest number of teams entered into the tournament with eight, Michigan St. was the last to fall.
The Final Four is April 5 this upcoming Saturday, and the NCAA Championship will be two days after, Monday, April 7.
The SEC was a dominating conference all season long which resulted in 14 teams being selected on selection Sunday but the BIG12 held its own and as well as the Big Ten did for the Spartan’s run to the elite 8.
The one seeds proved why they are one seeds and will battle it out this weekend to see who will be standing on the podium Monday night.
