Two tickets to the 2025 Final Four were punched Saturday. Two more will be punched Sunday. And how do you feel about the lack of so-called Cinderellas now? That was among the storylines after the first two rounds of this NCAA Tournament — how the only double-digit seed that made the Sweet 16 was an Arkansas team coached by John Calipari.

Johni Broome had 25 points and 14 rebounds, and Auburn took command with 17 unanswered points in the first half to beat Michigan State 70-64 and complete a sweep of No. 1 seeds advancing to the Final Four.

Broome was dominant against the Spartans and returned late in the second half after appearing to sustain a game-ending injury

The four No. 1 seeds in the NCAA Tournament escaped the second weekend of the Big Dance and are heading to the Final Four to cap one of the chalkiest NCAA Tournaments ever. It's the first time since 2008 and just the second time since the field expanded to 64 teams in 1985 that all four No.

Gas up the car, the Houston Cougars are headed back to the Final Four. The top-seeded Cougars used a suffocating defense to beat No. 2 seed Tennessee 69-50 in the Midwest Region final Sunday at Lucas Oil Stadium to advance to college basketball’s grandest stage for the first time in four years.

The LSU star had a bloody nose in the second half of the Tigers’ 72-65 loss to No. 1 UCLA on Sunday afternoon at Spokane Arena in Washington. That knocked them out of the NCAA women's tournament and sent the Bruins, who earned the No. 1 overall seed in the event, into the Final Four.

The Houston Cougars opened Sunday's Elite Eight action with a decisive win over Tennessee to join fellow 1-seeds Duke and Florida in the men's Final Four on Saturday. Now the Auburn Tigers will try to hold off Tom Izzo's Michigan State Spartans (5:05 p.