Quite simply, this is not the year of the Cinderella squad. The silver lining: The second-weekend matchups are loaded.
Thomas Casale is on a 60-36 run in college basketball picks and just revealed his second-chance 2025 March Madness bracket
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Thunder Wire on MSNMarch Madness Sweet 16: Complete wrap-up of potential OKC Thunder prospectsMarch Madness has officially started. The Men's NCAA Tournament will crown a national champion among 68 teams. After the Sweet 16 ended, only eight teams were left. While the first weekend is filled with fun chaos, the second strips down to the best squads with actual hopes of a title.
Madness continues on Thursday with four Sweet 16 games, including No. 1 seed Duke and Cooper Flagg facing No. 4 Arizona.
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Nearly every year there's at least one lovable underdog that rises from obscurity in the NCAA Tournament to capture the hearts of basketball fans and bust their brackets. Not this year. All 16 regional semifinalists are from power conferences for the first time since the bracket expanded to 64 teams in 1985.
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