{"id":250510,"date":"2025-03-23T12:49:28","date_gmt":"2025-03-23T12:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/sports\/rewrite-this-title-in-arabic-2025-march-madness-second-round-predictions-florida-vs-uconn-duke-vs-baylor\/"},"modified":"2025-03-23T12:49:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-23T12:49:29","slug":"rewrite-this-title-in-arabic-2025-march-madness-second-round-predictions-florida-vs-uconn-duke-vs-baylor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/sports\/rewrite-this-title-in-arabic-2025-march-madness-second-round-predictions-florida-vs-uconn-duke-vs-baylor\/","title":{"rendered":"rewrite this title in Arabic 2025 March Madness second round predictions: Florida vs. UConn, Duke vs. Baylor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic <\/p>\n<p>What do we do tomorrow?<\/p>\n<p>UConn (+9.5) over Florida<\/p>\n<p>The Huskies\u2019 quest for a three-peat will end, but not without a fight. <\/p>\n<p>The Gators, a trendy pick to take the championship torch, aren\u2019t likely to cruise through the field with a head coach (Todd Golden) who won his first tournament game two days ago. <\/p>\n<p>UConn will slow the tempo, leaning on Alex Karaban\u2019s experience. <\/p>\n<p>Dan Hurley, the winner of 13 straight NCAA Tournament games, will get the most out of his roster, relishing the rare role of a massive underdog. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel like in a weird way it\u2019s a little pressure off of us going into the tournament where we could just go out and let it rip right now,\u201d Hurley said this week. \u201cWe don\u2019t have this huge pressure of expectations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Duke (-11.5) over Baylor<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a big number, but it\u2019s warranted. <\/p>\n<p>The top-seeded Blue Devils have one loss since November, having gone 22-12 against the spread as a favorite. <\/p>\n<p>The Bears, who are 3-7-2 against the number as an underdog, haven\u2019t fared well against elite competition this season, suffering 10 losses against ranked teams, with six coming by double digits. <\/p>\n<p>Baylor squeaked past Mississippi State by dominating the boards. <\/p>\n<p>That won\u2019t be an option against Duke, which owns the nation\u2019s seventh-best rebounding rate. Plus, Cooper Flagg is 100 percent. The Carmelo Anthony remix may be upon us.<\/p>\n<p>Maryland (-7.5) over Colorado State<\/p>\n<p>The Rams have been impressive, winning 11 straight games, but it has largely been quantity over quality. <\/p>\n<p>Eight of the wins came against non-tournament teams, while another two came against 10-seed Utah State, which was blasted in the first round by UCLA. <\/p>\n<p>Maryland will be the seventh top 10 defense Colorado State has faced this season. <\/p>\n<p>The Rams lost five of those previous matchups by an average of more than 13 points. <\/p>\n<p>Betting on College Basketball? <\/p>\n<p>The Terps big men (future first-round pick Derik Queen and senior Julian Reese) should feast against the undersized Rams, who have no regular rotation player taller than 6-foot-8.<\/p>\n<p>Oregon (+3.5) over Arizona<\/p>\n<p>Tommy Lloyd\u2019s track record doesn\u2019t bode well for the Wildcats, who have been victim to far greater upsets in each of his three tournament appearances. <\/p>\n<p>Oregon\u2019s Dana Altman, who quietly ranks fourth among active coaches in wins (780), has been to the Sweet 16 five times since 2013. <\/p>\n<p>Again, his team is peaking in March, obliterating a quality Cinderella candidate (Liberty) to earn its ninth win in the past 10 games, with a defense that has been among the country\u2019s best in recent weeks. <\/p>\n<p>This season, Arizona has gone 3-8 against top 25 defenses.<\/p>\n<p>This season: 18-19 2011-24 record: 378-340-12<\/p>\n<p>Why Trust New York Post Betting<\/p>\n<p>Howie Kussoy has long been the New York Post\u2019s main handicapper in college basketball (since 2011) and college football (since 2013).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic What do we do tomorrow? UConn (+9.5) over Florida The Huskies\u2019 quest for a three-peat will end, but not without a fight. The Gators, a trendy pick to take the championship torch, aren\u2019t likely to cruise through the field with a head coach (Todd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":250511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-250510","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250512,"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250510\/revisions\/250512"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}