The Candy 16 for the 2025 NCAA males’s basketball match started on Thursday, and now have half of the Elite Eight set. Let’s check out among the largest winners and losers from Thursday’s recreation.
Winner: SEC
That has been the frequent theme of this 12 months’s NCAA season and the match itself. The SEC simply retains profitable, retains dominating and retains sending its groups deep into the match.
With Thursday’s wins by No. 1 Florida (87-71 over No. 4 Maryland) and No. 2 Alabama (113-88 over No. 6 BYU) the SEC has already put two groups into the Elite Eight. That quantity will certainly improve by no less than one on Friday when the winner of No. 2 Tennessee vs. No. 3 Kentucky advances, whereas No. 1 Auburn and No. 6 Ole Miss will even have an opportunity.
We all know almost half of the Elite Eight might be from the SEC. As many as 5 of the eight groups might be from that one convention.
The SEC — it isn’t only a soccer convention anymore.
Loser: BYU’s perimeter protection
Defending the three-point shot was an enormous concern for BYU all season because the Cougars ranked 285th within the nation, permitting their opponents to make 35.1% of their pictures from past the arch.
They’d have beloved to have been at that stage on Thursday.
The Cougars allowed Alabama to make 25 three-point pictures, whereas additionally permitting the Crimson Tide to shoot 49%. Mark Sears alone was 10-for-16.
