Who Could Make a Deep Run from the First Four in 2025?

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00:00every year we have had the first four since 2011 with the exception of 2019 a

00:04team that is one of the first four has also won at least one game in a round of

00:0964 and beyond whether it's North Carolina or any of our two teams

00:13squaring off tonight who do you think continues that trend here in 2025 well

00:19North Carolina definitely has the momentum the winner of the Texas Xavier

00:23game is going to have to play Illinois so I would make the argument that the

00:27winners of this year's games in the first four regardless of whether it's

00:31Texas or Xavier tonight have maybe two of the toughest six seeds that we have

00:35seen in quite some time in terms of the teams that play their way into the

00:38bracket you know Illinois is a team that a lot of people including myself at times

00:42this year saw as a potential Dark Horse Final Four team because of the talent

00:46base and Ole Miss under Chris Beard has reminded myself and other people this

00:51season of the teams that Chris Beard added Texas Tech so I look at the

00:54Carolina Ole Miss game Carolina probably has better personnel in terms

00:58of the personnel on the roster but we don't know yet if it's going to be a

01:02better team coming up later this week than Ole Miss we're gonna find that out

01:05in a couple of days