One of these No. 1 seeds is not like the other. Sports betting books list Duke as a clear favorite in the men's Final Four, but hang on just a second.

Before Duke coach Jon Scheyer coached in his first official game after taking over for Mike Krzyzewski, he flew his team to Houston to play in a secret preseason scrimmage.  Scheyer intentionally sought out Kelvin Sampson and the Cougars for his first career "game.

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Coaches who saw the 2025 Final Four teams this season get into the nitty-gritty details of what makes them good and how to beat them.

So many in college basketball talk about the importance of the transfer portal in building successful teams. But this year's Final Four -- like last year's, and the one before that --shows again that "homegrown" teams win the biggest.

Houston will send out a veteran starting lineup against Duke's trio of "Diaper Dandies" on Saturday in a Final Four matchup in San Antonio.

So that says it all." Now Houston is preparing for a Duke team which has three players who may be in next season's NBA video game, like forward Cooper Flagg. "They're lottery picks," Houston guard Milos Uzan noted about Duke's freshmen players.