2025 March Madness Bracket picks: Cinderella teams, Optimal NCAA Tournament predictions, upsets, simulations
Find everything you need to know to pick the best 2025 NCAA Tournament bracket with our 2025 March Madness simulation
The first round of the 2025 NCAA Tournament tips off Thursday, March 20. The 2025 NCAA bracket will battle it out to see who will be crowned NCAA Champion on Monday, April 7, at the 2025 Final Four in San Antonio. In what appears to be a wide-open year with several prohibitive 2025 March Madness bracket favorites, our model analyzes each potential matchup to find the most logical 2025 March Madness picks. Should you choose a No. 1 overall seed to win the 2025 March Madness bracket, or should you look elsewhere for value? Thirteen of the past 17 champions have been a No. 1 seed, including UConn in 2024.
Our SportsLine experts and model have dissected all of the 2025 March Madness games and revealed their optimal 2025 NCAA Tournament bracket picks, 2025 NCAA Tournament upset picks, and more. Join SportsLine here to see what all our model and experts predict for the 2025 NCAA Tournament!
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- Looking for the latest bracket simulations? Visit our SportsLine brackets home page to see expert brackets and picks from 10,000 simulations.
- SportsLine's optimal bracket beat over 91% of CBS Sports Bracket Challenge participants in four of the last six years.
- For bracket pools which reward more points for lower seeds winning, there's no better helper than SportsLine's upset bracket. Find the most likely upset picks to advance, all from the model that's nailed 24 upsets by double-digit seeds in the first round.
- As always, find information on each game throughout the NCAA Tournament on our college basketball pick sheet, which offers against the spread, money line, and over/under simulations.
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