Follow UConn vs. South Carolina live updates from the women’s NCAA championship game. One of women's college basketball's most storied programs is heading back to the national championship game.

The 2025 men's NCAA tournament started with 68 teams vying for this year's national championship, and now the field has been trimmed to the just two as the Florida Gators and Houston Cougars will square off for the title.

A relatively mundane men’s NCAA Tournament was playing to script late Saturday night at the Alamodome, another boring double-digit Duke win to digest, leaving us with faint hopes of Florida phenom Walter Clayton Jr.

Out of the high school ranks, Louisville is bringing in five-star point guard Mikel Brown Jr., as well as four-star German big man Sananda Fru. Then out of the portal, they are welcoming Xavier guard Ryan Conwell, Virginia guard Isaac McKneely and Kennesaw State guard Adrian Wooley.

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A year after women’s college basketball made history by pulling in a larger television audience for its national championship than the men’s title game, the question always lingered: How, possibly, could this upward momentum continue?

The Florida All-American has repeatedly come up big in late-game situations and did so again on Saturday to lead the Gators to a 79-73 win over Auburn in the Final Four. Clayton hit multiple big 3s in the second half and helped seal the win with an and-1 layup and free throw with 1:33 to extend Florida's lead to six.

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