Duke’s current efficiency is 38.15, the nation’s highest since the 2001 Blue Devils ended the season, with an NCAA championship, at 37.32. The only team with a higher KenPom efficiency at time of the year? Duke’s 1999 team that went 37-2 and finished with a 43.01 efficiency.

Kelvin Sampson was almost kicked out of college basketball. And he was a player-friendly Houston Rockets assistant coach when the University of Houston gave him a broken program that couldn’t even dream of the Final Four. Eleven years after ‘Cougars ...

Texas' Kevin Durant (2007) and LSU's Cameron Thomas (2021) own the highest points per game among freshmen who played multiple NCAA tournament games, each averaging 28.5 points over two games. Each player scored 27 points in a first-round win followed by 30 points in a second-round loss.

The Duke Blue Devils face the Houston Cougars in the Final Four of the men’s NCAA Tournament at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas, on Saturday, April 5, 2025.

The Duke and North Carolina women have faced each other 110 times, including 16 games on a neutral court, but they’ve never played in the NCAA Tournament — until Friday.

The pinnacle of college basketball features a historic Final Four April 5-7 in San Antonio. All four No. 1 seeds are also historic statistical leaders. The winners of Auburn vs. Florida and Houston vs.

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NCAA Tournament Final Four matchup between the Duke Blue Devils and Houston Cougars with predictions, odds, picks, spread, betting lines and more.