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March Madness Elite Eight Predictions Today: Expert Picks & NCAA Tournament Scores Tonight

C Jackson Cowart

Last Updated: March 30, 2025 7:00 AM EDT • 1 min 27 sec read.

March Madness Elite Eight Predictions Today: Sunday's Expert Picks & NCAA Tournament Scores
Pictured: Michigan State Spartans guard Jase Richardson (11) in the 2025 NCAA Tournament. Photo by Brett Davis / Imagn Images.

We nearly saw our first NCAA Tournament upset of a No. 1 seed in the Elite Eight, and our March Madness predictions today project a top seed to fall in the final games before the Final Four:

  • No. 1 Auburn vs. No. 2 Michigan State, 5:05 p.m. ET (CBS)

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🏀 No. 1 Auburn vs. No. 2 Michigan State, 5:05 p.m. ET (CBS), South Region

✅ ATS prediction: Michigan State to cover the spread +5.5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🎯 Score prediction: Michigan State 75, Auburn 71

Here's why Phil Wood is picking Michigan State to cover the spread (+5.5):

"This would be a five-star play if the Spartans showed up in the first half. They’ve won 11 of their last 12 games and haven’t lost by more than five points since Feb. 1. Only three of their six losses were by more than five points, and they haven’t lost a single game by more than eight this season."

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C Jackson Cowart
C Jackson Cowart is a publishing editor and lead writer for Sportsbook Review. An award-winning writer, reporter, and editor with a decade of sports media experience, "C-Jax" has worked with ESPN, Forbes, theScore, and various daily newspapers before joining the Sportsbook Review team. He's a proud graduate of the University of North Carolina, where he served as a beat writer for the Tar Heels' championship run through the NCAA men's basketball tournament in 2017. Jackson has spent the last five years covering sports betting as a predictive analyst, features writer, and industry reporter. Since joining the team in 2023, he's played a key role in Sportsbook Review's coverage of the Super Bowl, March Madness, and NBA playoffs while serving as the lead writer for the growing WNBA and NASCAR betting scenes. Though he's cashed some big bets over the years -- including Lamar Jackson to win MVP (twice) -- he's still haunted by enough second-place bet slips to wallpaper his home office. While Jackson is a committed "process over results" bettor with a keen eye for advanced stats and subtle bias in futures markets, he also embraces sports betting as a vehicle for entertainment and personal investment. He's written about everything from hot dogs to groundhogs and still hasn't forgiven his "inside source" for a sabotaged bet on the Gatorade color in Super Bowl LV.