There's nothing like March Madness. The 2025 NCAA Tournament is a time-honored way to usher in the spring season, which means basketball fans and bettors will be busy filling out their March Madness brackets.
With only a few hours left to lock in your picks, our bracket predictors have pored over March Madness odds to make their NCAA Tournament picks, so you don't have to.
You can use our filled-in staff picks to identify which upsets to target, decide between the matchups that appear to be a coin toss, and help shape your Final Four as you fill in our printable March Madness bracket for 2025. You can also copy it entirely and submit it to your bracket contest—just be sure to give us a shout-out when you win some money.
2025 March Madness bracket predictions
Duke triumphs over Texas Tech
By Jason LoganI have three of the four No. 1 seeds advancing to the Final Four, with No. 3 Texas Tech as the lone outlier. There’s been a notable gap between top No. 1’s (Auburn and Duke) and the rest of the contenders, with quality teams cycling into those final two top-seed spots.
Florida is the favorite in the West Region, but could get defending national champ UConn in the Round of 32. I have the West coming down to Maryland and TTU, giving a slight nod to the Red Raiders.
As for the Final Four, we’ve seen Auburn’s aura of invincibility crumble in recent games and I believe Texas Tech can stand toe-to-toe. Duke’s star power will push it past UH. In the final, the Blue Devils add another banner to Cameron Indoor, cementing Flagg’s place in Duke history.
Duke stymies St. John's
By Rohit PonnaiyaMost of my regions are pretty chalky with the exception of the South, where I have No. 12 UC San Diego upsetting the turnover-prone Michigan Wolverines and the No. 13 seed Yale grinding out a victory against a Texas A&M squad that can't shoot.
Those upsets will give Auburn a pretty clear path to the title game, unlike their SEC counterparts Florida, who will get tripped up in the group of death out West.
St. John's will ride their defensive ball pressure and up-tempo offense to upset Auburn, but their 3-point shooting will prove to be a problem in the National Championship, where Duke will be victorious.
Houston, we have a championship
By Douglas FarmerWill this bracket be perfect? I can only dream. More likely, some moment Thursday afternoon will dash those outlandish thoughts. That afternoon alone, my NCAA Tournament bracket projects two double-digit seeds winning.
As much as my bracket leans into chalk, there are 15 wins from double-digit seeds in the early rounds. Finding that balance between predictability and chaos is the delight of March Madness. Consider this my best effort at picking 63 games correctly, knowing if I nail so many as 50, I should be in a profitable position this spring.
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Want more smart tournament picks? Our March Madness picks hub details every tournament game, the best odds for the matchups, and links to analysis for every round. Our process will go like this. Our betting analysts — one for each region — make picks on every single game of the tournament.
