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March Madness bracket predictions: Instant picks for men’s 2025 NCAA tournament

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Here are our instant picks for the 2025 men’s NCAA tournament.

Change is hard, but it’s not necessarily a bad thing. That’s an important lesson to remember as it pertains to men’s college basketball entering another year of March Madness.

The college hoops landscape is almost unrecognizable from a few seasons ago. The days of FBI investigations and bag men are a thing of the past — these days, money changes hands between programs and players...

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Mark Schofield

NCAA men’s tournament bracket 2025: The full rankings from No. 1 Auburn to No. 68

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Before the madness begins, here is how the Selection Committee stacked the full field of 68

The brackets have been released, and now begins one of the greatest traditions in sports.

Figuring out how to fill them out.

We will have you covered every single step of the way here at SB Nation, whether you are looking for trendy upset picks, a team in line for a deep Cinderella run, or any other means of filling out your selections over the next few...

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Jack Milko

Players Championship playoff rules: Rory McIlroy vs J.J. Spaun for the title at TPC Sawgrass

Rory McIlroy hits his tee shot on the 17th hole during the final round of The 2025 Players Championship. | Photo by Richard Heathcote/Getty Images

We will have a Monday playoff at the Players Championship between one of the game’s biggest stars and a career journeyman.

A playoff between Rory McIlroy and J.J. Spaun will determine the 2025 Players Championship. Both players finished the tournament at 12-under par.

McIlroy began the day four shots behind Spaun, who held the 54-hole...

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4 biggest March Madness snubs in men’s 2025 NCAA tournament, ranked by egregiousness

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Here are the biggest snubs in the 2025 men’s NCAA tournament bracket, ranked.

North Carolina getting into the field as an at-large team is the major bubble controversy of the 2025 NCAA Tournament.

Chaos developed during Championship Week last year when five bid thieves stole bubble spots. New Mexico, Duquesne, UAB, Oregon and N.C. State unexpectedly winning conference tournaments and earning autobids threw a major wrench in the postseason plans of...

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Auburn, Duke top NCAA field; SEC gets record 14

Overall top seed Auburn was joined by Duke, Houston and Florida as 1-seeds, and a record 14 teams from the SEC were selected to participate in the NCAA tournament.

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It's bracket time: Make your picks for the men's tournament

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Myron Medcalf

Auburn, Duke and the 66 other teams competing in the 2025 NCAA tournament

The bracket is revealed, here's everything you need to know about the competitors for this year's national title.

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Mattathias Schwartz

With Deportations to El Salvador, Trump May Have Defied a Judge’s Order

“Oopsie … Too late,” El Salvador’s president said, mocking a court order that deportation flights turn back to the United States. Top administration officials thanked him.

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Bluesky proposes new privacy settings for its users

Bluesky is working on giving users a little more control over their privacy. The company published a proposal on Github outlining the changes the company is thinking of making to that end. 

“This draft describes how atproto accounts (eg, Bluesky users) could declare ‘intents’ (aka, preferences) about certain categories of reuse of their public content. The mechanism and expectations are similar to robots.txt files on the web: a machine-readable format, which good actors are expected to...

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Google’s Find My Device is adding location-sharing with contacts

Google’s Find My Device is arguably the best way to track down a lost Android device or supported accessories like a smartwatch. If your phone never got lost, chances are you were never really interested in Find My Device, but a new feature may change that. 

The new feature grants you the ability to track a contact’s location in real time through the app. Google announced the new feature as part of its March Pixel Drop announcement.

"The new location-sharing feature in the Find My Device...

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Here’s Just About Every Product You Could Need For Your Bathroom, And They’re All Good Lookin’

Give your bathroom the attention (and accoutrements) it deserves.

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David Fucillo

Opening odds for the first round of the 2025 NCAA men’s basketball tournament

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The NCAA men’s basketball tourney field is set. We’re posting odds as they go live.

March Madness is upon us! The NCAA men’s basketball tournament selection committee has finalized the bracket and CBS is announcing it as we speak. As each region of the 2025 NCAA men’s basketball tournament bracket is announced, we’ll be providing the full list of matchups below and adding in opening odds as soon as FanDuel Sportsbook makes them available.

The...

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Joseph Acosta

Meet the No. 1 seeds in the 2025 men’s NCAA tournament

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Here’s everything you need to know about the No. 1 seeds in the 2025 men’s NCAA tournament.

The NCAA Tournament bracket is now set, 68 teams set to do battle for the national championship trophy in the best month in sports. However, with this year being as chaotic as it was, four teams separated themselves from the pack, battling through injuries and loaded schedules en route to the number one seeds in this year’s tournament.

Now, before you finish...

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Mark Schofield

NCAA men’s tournament 2025: Full field revealed for one of the deeper seasons yet

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Here are the full brackets ahead of the 2025 NCAA men’s tournament

If you are reading this, you are simply doing so on a break from your job, or in between classes, or during a down moment during your busy day. You are dedicated to your craft, of course, and you absolutely are not going to spend the next few weeks of your life glued to televisions and consuming nothing but college basketball.

Ok now that we have fooled everyone ...

The brackets...

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25 Pieces Of Jewelry That’ll Elevate Any Outfit

Because let's be honest, who's looking at your outfit when you have stunning bling like this?

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Jack Milko

Phil Mickelson dishes scorching hot Scottie Scheffler take

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Phil Mickelson took to social media to make some bold claims about the number one player in the world.

Phil Mickelson has come out firing on this Players Championship Sunday.

Immediately after Joaquin Niemann won his second LIV Golf title of the season in Singapore, Mickelson referred to the Chilean as the best player in the world on X.

His tweet was in response to a post from Torque GC, which claimed that Niemann is a top-5 player in the world right...

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Noa Dalzell

Surprising Unrivaled injury update could have major implications

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Napheesa Collier is now questionable to play on Sunday night, thanks to a left ankle injury, becoming the latest WNBA.

Napheesa Collier is the latest WNBA star who could be held out of Sunday’s postseason Unrivaled action. Collier is now questionable with a left ankle injury, and in turn, relief contract player Kiki Jefferson has been assigned to the Lunar Owls. She’s the most recent player to be added to Unrivaled’s injury report ahead of the...

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Andreeva stops Sabalenka for Indian Wells title

Russian teenager Mirra Andreeva fought back to overcome world No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka 2-6, 6-4, 6-3 in the Indian Wells final Sunday.

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Magic end Cavaliers' winning streak at 16 games

Paolo Banchero scored 24 points, Franz Wagner added 22 and the Magic beat Cleveland 108-103 on Sunday to end the Cavs' winning streak at 16 games.

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Trump Sends Hundreds of Venezuelans to El Salvador in Face of Judge’s Order

President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador announced that his country had taken in more than 200 prisoners whom the U.S. has accused of being part of the Tren de Aragua gang.

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