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Houston (35-4) scored the final nine points to shock the Blue Devils, 70-67, and enters the championship game on an 18-game winning streak.
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But, somehow, their 14-point lead disappeared, and the dream was over for the Blue Devils.
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Houston basketball completed a six-point comeback with under 40 seconds remaining against Duke on Saturday.
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South Carolina has opened at +450 to win next season's NCAA women's basketball tournament, the shortest of any team on the odds board, according to ESPN BET lines. USC came in next at +500, followed by national champion UConn at +600.
It has been a March Madness full of favorites, as favored teams won all 12 games in the Sweet 16 and Elite Eight rounds, going 7-5 against the spread. Overall, that means favorites have won 48 of the 60 games played in the 2025 NCAA tournament.
And just like that, we are down to two. From 64 teams in the beginning, we have finally made it to the finals of the NCAA Men's College Basketball tournament. The semi-final match ups from the Alamodome on Saturday,
South Carolina will face The toughest test of its tournament to this point when the defending champions battle a double-tough Texas Longhorns squad. Connecticut and star Paige Bueckers will look to cash their ticket to the title game by beating the red-hot UCLA Bruins.
Think of the Final Four this way: Auburn ranks higher at KenPom than all but six teams from 1997-2024, yet it ranks fourth in this Final Four and has BetMGM's longest odds to win it all at +525. Auburn would have been the favorite in 21 of the past 27 tournaments, if KenPom was used to set the odds.
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UConn (-290) is the betting favorite over South Carolina (+235) in to the NCAA women's basketball tournament championship game odds shared Saturday by DraftKings. The spread is currently 6.5 points in favor of the Huskies, with an over/under of 133.5 points, according to DraftKings.