Madness is nearing a fever pitch as we're now gearing up for the Final Four games in the NCAA men's and women's basketball tournament. Both brackets are done with the Elite Eight, and my own tournament picks are doing surprisingly well.

Sports used AI to pick the 2025 men's March Madness bracket. It produced an unlikely national champion, trendy upset picks, Cinderella teams

Hey, maybe AI is on to something with this men's March Madness prediction as we get set for our 2025 NCAA brackets to lock in. Or ... the computers are about to be very, very wrong. USA TODAY Sports' Mark Giannotto used Microsoft Copilot AI's chatbot and asked it to predict how the 2025 NCAA tournament bracket would play out.

Emmanuel Acho, LeSean McCoy, James Jones and Chase Daniel predict who will win the NCAA Tournament between Duke, Houston, Florida and Auburn. This is the first year all No. 1 seeds are in the Final Four since 2008.

The data told the story all year on Duke, Houston, Florida and Auburn. The Blue Devils, Cougars, Gators and Tigers had held the top four spots in daily rankings from KenPom since the first half of February,

Fittingly for an NCAA Tournament in which big schools from big conferences took record numbers of spots in the first week, then hogged them all for the Sweet 16, the last week will bring a collection of all four teams seeded No.