March Madness 2025: Selection Sunday winners and losers

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It’s a big March Madness for the SEC. The conference got 14 of its 16 teams in the men’s NCAA tournament. (Photo by Michael Wade/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

Now that the brackets have been revealed for both the men’s and women’s NCAA tournaments, some teams fared better than others.

After taking a look at each of the 68-team fields, here are the winners and losers from Selection Sunday as March Madness is officially ready to get underway this week.

Winners

The SEC

The conference is an obvious winner after setting a men’s NCAA tournament record with 14 teams in the 2025 edition of March Madness. Only South Carolina and LSU fell short of the tournament as they combined to win just five SEC games.

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The committee felt the SEC was so good this season that it didn’t bat an eye at the 6-12 conference records that Texas and Oklahoma put up. Yeah, the Longhorns were one of the final teams in the tournament and play in the First Four in Dayton, but Oklahoma got a No. 9 seed.

The SEC ended up with four teams among the top eight seeds and six of the top 16 seeds in the tournament. And 11 of the 14 teams are single-digit seeds. With Texas at No. 11, Arkansas and Vanderbilt are No. 10 seeds.

Predictably, the SEC has the best chance of any conference to have the national title winner. Florida is the new favorite to win it all after winning the conference tournament and four of the top six betting favorites are SEC schools.

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Rick Pitino

Is there a more reliable winner in college basketball than Rick Pitino? St. John’s earned a No. 2 seed in the tournament field in Pitino’s second season as head coach and is now the sixth team that Pitino has coached to the NCAA tournament.

Pitino’s now coached Boston University, Providence, Kentucky, Louisville and Iona in addition to St. John’s to NCAA tournament appearances and has led two teams to NCAA championships (1996 Kentucky, 2013 Louisville, vacated). He’s largely found…

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Author : Nick Bromberg,Jason Owens

Publish date : 2025-03-17 00:50:00

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