March Madness 2025 continues on Thursday, March 27, with the first four of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament Sweet 16 games. Among those teams in action are No. 1 seeds Florida and Duke, along with Alabama and Arkansas from the SEC. BYU, Maryland, Arizona and Texas Tech also take the court.

The bad: 2-seeds have lost three of the four most recent Sweet 16 games against non-3-seeds, including two last year (with 2-seed Marquette falling to 11-seed N.C. State and 2-seed Arizona falling to 6-seed Clemson).

With Duke being tested by Arizona, Cooper Flagg needed to take control. And that's what he did in leading the Blue Devils to the brink of Final Four.

Duke stud Cooper Flagg put on a skills clinic and overcame an onslaught from Arizona and Caleb Love, finishing with 30 points, six rebounds and seven in a 100-93 NCAA Tournament victory that pulled th