Walter Waddell Host

The 2023-24 college basketball season is now in the rearview mirror, and that means we get to “sleep in May” as Jon Rothstein says. However, the expansion of transfer rules and the flurry of offseason activity means there is very little time to relax or even reflect on the past year. The final horn has sounded, and the UConn Huskies have raised the championship trophy for a second straight year, but we are already looking ahead to next season.

The 2024 NCAA tournament has concluded, and even though the confetti hasn’t been cleared off the hardwood yet, 2025 championship odds have been released. Next year’s iteration of the tournament is set to begin March 18, 2025, and will end April 7 in San Antonio. Now that we are fully into the offseason, there will be a ton of moving pieces via the transfer portal and draft declarations.

It was an interesting start to the tournament with plenty of drama in the first two rounds, but ultimately we ended up with a relatively chalky Sweet 16. There are still plenty of opportunities for upsets though, especially with a plethora of intriguing players remaining. We are now going to revisit and update our 25 players to watch list, Sweet 16 edition.