After a thrilling first two rounds, the 2025 NCAA Tournament continues Thursday with the Sweet 16. If you are entering any kind of second-chance bracket contest for the Sweet 16 and beyond, or just making college basketball picks, you NEED to see the optimal bracket picks from SportsLine's proven model.

SportsLine's proven projection model has simulated every game in the tournament 10,000 times. It has absolutely crushed its March Madness picks recently, beating over 91% of all CBS Sports brackets in four of the past six tournaments. It has called an astonishing 13 Sweet 16 teams both this year and last year and was all over UConn's championship run a year ago and called Alabama's Cinderella run to the Final Four as a 4-seed. It knows how to spot an upset as well. The same model has produced brackets that have nailed 25 first-round upsets by double-digit seeds since its inception in 2016.

Now, it has simulated the rest of the 2025 NCAA Tournament and revealed more surprising picks.

We can tell you the model is calling for Tennessee to beat Kentucky in the Sweet 16 even though the Vols lost to the Wildcats twice this season. Tennessee, which comfortably won its opening two games by a combined 24 points, wins in the Sweet 16 in 60% of simulations.

The model has picked every other matchup, and it says the Final Four will feature something that hasn't happened in 20 years! You ABSOLUTELY NEED to see what it is before making any more bracket picks. 

Now, get every pick, every play, every upset and make your bracket picks and college basketball predictions for the rest of the 2025 NCAA Tournament with our help! ... Join SportsLine now to see which teams make a history-making Final Four, all from the model that nailed 13 of the 16 teams in the past two Sweet 16s!