It is a gloomy selection on Sunday while the world of university basketball continues to cry last year's death of CBS Sports.
But even without the voice of the annual television event, teams and fans throughout the country still tuned on CBS on Sunday to know that Auburn was the upper seed and goes to the southern region.
Naturally, Duke is the second seed number 1, and will go to the east region. The Blue Devils managed to win the ACC tournament once again despite an ankle injury to overcome the NBA Cooper Flagg prospect.
The Houston Couchars in second place are the third seed number 1 and are directed to the west medium region.
Auburn is a light favorite about Duke to win the National Championship, with Florida and Houston not far, according to Betmgm Sportsbook.
UConn will make the tournament and try a three -mobile national champion, something that has not been done since the early 1970s, while Big East Champion St. John's has returned as one of the best teams in the country under the veteran coach Rick Pitino.
The Duke Blue Devils Guard, Kon Knueppel (7), celebrates with the teammates after winning the most valuable player award for the ACC 2025 conference tournament
Auburn cheerleaders act during the first half of a University Basketball Party of the NCAA against the Mississippi in the quarter -final round of the Southeast Conference Tournament
The chief coach of the Auburn Tigers, Bruce Pearl, reacts to a foul against Tennessee volunteers
Directed by the player of the year of the SEC, Johni Broome, Los Tigres (28-5) spent eight weeks at number 1 in the top 25 AP before a slide from the end of the season that let them enter March Madness after having fallen three of their last four games, all to tournament equipment. That includes a 70-65 defeat against Tennessee in the semifinals of the conference tournament during the weekend.
The Tigers, who have not survived the Opening Week of the NCAA tournament since they are going to the final final in 2019, will begin their trip against the state of Alabama or Saint Francis on Thursday in Lexington, Kentucky. The regional final is in Atlanta.
Auburn joined the second state of Michigan, the state of Iowa in third sown and some family faces: the sown No. 4 Texas A&M, which beat the Tigers earlier this season, and its first round opponent … Yale.