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All four No. 1 seeds have advanced to the men’s Final Four for the first time since 2008 and only the second time in history. Saturday’s first national semifinal will pit the two juggernauts left standing from this season’s most dominant conference.

Of this year’s Final Four teams, Duke, Houston and Auburn have ranked inside the top five in all of KenPom’s daily rankings.

Fittingly for an NCAA Tournament, the Final Four will bring four teams seeded No. 1 to the sport’s biggest stage to play for the title.

The Gamecocks will face fellow top seed Texas on Friday in their bid to become the first repeat NCAA champion since UConn’s run of four straight from 2013-16. The tourney’s overall 1 seed, UCLA, knocked off LSU 72-65 to advance to its first women’s Final Four behind another big game by Lauren Betts.

With wins by Houston and Auburn on Sunday, next weekend’s Final Four will have all four No. 1 seeds for the second time in NCAA Tournament history. The only other time since seeding began in 1979 was in 2008,

Three No. 1 seeds will be in the Final Four of the women's NCAA Tournament. It's the No. 2 seed favored to win the title in Tampa, Florida.