2025 March madness: Back Duke, Florida in Final Four

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Four teams remain in the men’s NCAA tournament, and by chance they are the best four teams in the country.

How do you choose when these are circumstances?

This is certainly not easy, but I feel convinced that two teams with Royal Blue will find their way to the title game in their color schemes.

Here are my best bets for Final Four.

Cooper flagg to achieve points of 20 plus

In a low-total point game (136.5) and a 68-66 Ken POM projection, Cooper Flagg would score 20 points would mean that he called almost 30% of the Duke.

Will it do against defense number 1 in the country?

Because Flagga turned an ankle in the ACC tournament, it is only once at the top of 18 points. This game followed against the Arizona-Male team that had only one player over 6 feet-8.

As is Houston, he begins three guards and there is no one over 6 feet-8.

If J’wan Roberts, a 23-year-old center who played 170 matches for Cougars, has fallen into any bad problems, it’s for Houston. Cougars will not have a size or depth to process the Duke line.

Joseph Tugler, a promising 19-year-old from Houston, has thrown out of six games this season.

We saw Gonzagin Graham Ike dominated the Cougars, scoring 27 points in the 32th round. Houston must have watched the Alabame strategy – let’s slow Cooper Flagg! – But the purple tide actually had bodies to do so. Flagga had only 16 points, but he lost Alabama until the age of 19, as he released the scorers of Kon Knueppel (21 points) and Tyrese Proctor (17 points) to get everything they wanted.

Houston’s strategy could be the opposite: we will let Flagga get everything he wants, but we will not allow anyone to get an open look, especially of 3. This is strategic teams employed against Nikola Jokic in the NBA playoffs. Because if he gets 10-plus assists and maybe half of them are open 3, you’re dead.

There is a world where Kelvin Sampson plays flagg straight up and he eats while others are bottled.

Select: Cooper Flagg (+114) to achieve 20 points or more

Kelvin Sampson on Change of Houston’s Culture, Cooper Flagg, Final Four

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Duke (-208) against Houston
Florida (-145) Vs. Auburn

The Moneyline Parlay Favorite bets were incredibly effective throughout the tournament. Duke was a jung, and I don’t think he won’t have too much problems with the Houston front, although a monster with 3 points from a top deep shooting team in the ground could overthrow blue devils.

Florida is ticklish, because in February he beat Auburn in Auburn. He did it without Alijah Martin, who scored in a dual figure 10 games in a row, and also held Gators on the surface against Uconna in the second round before Walter Clayton pulled him out late.

It seems that the public is on Florida after it was necessary to win over Huskyes and Texas Tech. Both teams are deep and talented. Even the excellent leisure -cracking teams, so the creation of margins could be difficult.

For me, a mild care for traveling with Florida, which was shipped to the west to the tournament and then returned to Florida and now has to return to San Antonio for Final Four.

Selection: Parlay Duke ML (-208), Florida ML (-145)

Duke (-4.5) against Houston

Depending on where you buy, the blue devils opened at 5.5, and then they reduced to 4.5 after Houston looked impressively torn by Tennessee from a powerful SEC.

If you look at some advanced analytics, there is a break with the spread of the point. Kenp has a Duke of two; Bart Torvik has a Houston one at a time (Torvik also had Auburn over Florida by one).

The Cougar suffered three losses before December, two of which are in extension. From December 1st, Cougars are 31-1, and a lone loss that comes against Texas Tech.

Houston prevails teams with aggression and persistence in defense, and there are two points in the return. Duke defensive length inside and out of the outside has created all problems. Houston will take revenge after last year’s loss of Sweet 16 – when his star fell before halftime – but I often go with an offense number 1 due to defense number 1 in NBA, NFL, college football and fines on colleges.

Selection: Duke to win for more than 4.5 points

Jason Mcintyre is an analyst for betting Fox Sports who also writes about NFL and NBA draft. Before coming to Fox, he created a great leadership website. Follow it on Twitter @Jasonrs.

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