March Madness Round of 32 Day 4 All-Tournament Team

The first four days of the 2025 NCAA Tournament have set up a Sweet 16 full of fantastic matchups. The SEC, which produced the most dominant season from a single conference in the history of the sport is sending seven of its 14 teams from the field of 68 to the Sweet 16. A Sweet 16 that for the first time in history will only feature teams from four different conferences and no double-digit seed advanced beyond the first weekend for the first time since 2007. 

Cinderella didn’t belong at this ball, and a few of these star players have spent March Madness making sure she didn’t get a dance with Prince Charming. Even the most memorable moment of the first two rounds, which we finally got on Sunday night, was a four-seed knocking out a mid-major 12-seed. 

The Sweet 16 is loaded with stars, and on Sunday, these five shined the brightest. Here is your March Madness Round of 32 Day 4 All-Tournament Team. 

The First-Team All-American started 0-4 against the two-time defending National Champs, but when it mattered, he was the best player on the court and the difference in Florida’s 77-75 win over the UConn Huskies. At times, Clayton struggled finishing at the rim, and he didn’t have the easiest time against the Huskies’ defensive specialist Hassan Diarra. Yet, he found a way to get into a rhythm in the second half and hit the biggest shot of the game, extending the Gators lead to six with just over a minute left. 

Clayton entered the tournament as the best point guard in the country, and in a game when Dan Hurley had an impeccable plan for exploiting Florida’s switch-heavy defense and disrupting the Gators’ up-tempo offensive flow, the difference was Todd Golden had Walter Clayton Jr. and Hurley didn’t. 

All the headlines coming into the tournament were about Cooper Flagg and Duke’s phenomenal freshmen class. However, through the Blue Devil’s first two games of the NCAA Tournament, the junior guard has been the best player on the floor. 

Proctor is a reliable tertiary offensive creator for Jon Scheyer’s team, but he’s at his best playing off of Flagg and Kon Knueppel. Flagg finished Duke’s 89-66 win over Baylor with a game-high six assists two of them for Proctor threes. The 6-foot-6 Australian went 7/8 from deep on Sunday and is now 13/16 for the tournament. When Proctor is shooting the ball this well, the No. 1 seed in the East Region might be impossible to beat. 

While Ole Miss hasn’t made the NCAA Tournament since 2019, Sean Pedulla has been there and done that. The 6-foot-1 senior guard had 19 points in 19 minutes as a freshman for Virginia Tech in the first round of the 2022 tournament, and now that he’s back with the Rebels, he’s proving that he’s still up for the big moments. 

Pedulla posted 20 points, five assists, and six rebounds in Ole Miss’s first-round win over North Carolina on Friday and followed that stellar outing up with another 20-point game. This time adding eight assists and four steals in an upset of three-seed Iowa State. Pedulla had the Rebels’ first five points and eight of their first 11, holding off an early Iowa State onslaught, and proceeded to ice the game as a playmaker, recording five of his eight assists in the second half. 

The 2025 NCAA Tournament was going into Sunday night of the second round without its signature moment. Then, Derik Queen delivered it. The freshman center told his coach to “give him the MF ball” then proceeded to drag the Terrapins to the Sweet 16 with a ridiculous one-legged contested fall-away at the buzzer. 

The Big Ten Freshman of the Year has been spectacular all season, but with a single shot, he cemented himself as a legend for his hometown Terps with the most unforgettable moment of the first weekend. 20-year-old 6-foot-11 big men simply do not get their own shot off the bounce the way Queen did and has all season, that’s why he’s a surefire first-round NBA draft pick and won’t get a chance to further cement his Maryland legacy 

At some point, Caleb Love’s five-year roller coaster college basketball career will come to an end, but the senior guard made sure that Sunday wasn’t that day. After a season in which the mercurial playmaker shot under 40% from the field, Love was hyper-efficient in the second round of the NCAA Tournament, finishing with 29 points on 10/18 from the field with nine rebounds, four assists, and just three turnovers. 

Known for his microwave scoring ability, Love has developed into a veteran leader for Tommy Lloyd’s Wildcats and closed the game out in the second half with a dagger three at the two-minute mark, clutch free-throws to put the game out of reach, and the most important rebound of the night on Oregon point guard Jackson Shelstad’s intentional miss with his Ducks down three in the final seconds. If Arizona continues to get this version of Caleb Love, the Wildcats have Final Four talent, and up next is a meeting with his old nemesis, the Duke Blue Devils, in the Sweet 16.

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