Like pizza and Curb Your Enthusiasm episodes, there are no bad NCAA men’s basketball tournaments. But some are better than others, and the 2025 tourney has only been pretty good—not pretty, pretty, pretttaaay good.
Shock value has been virtually nonexistent. Drama has been dormant. Cinderella left early. Power conferences have reigned. The first round was a blowout bloodbath, and while the subsequent rounds were more competitive they were also steeped in chalk and short on late-game tension.
