It’s Kentucky vs Liberty in the first round of the 2025 Women’s NCAA Tournament. Here’s our prediction for the March Madness basketball game.

Conference USA regular season and tournament champion Liberty (28-6) will face Oregon (24-9) in the first round of the 2025 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship. The Flames will enter the NCAA Tournament as a No.

The No. 5 seed Ducks (24-9) opened as 4.5-point favorites against No. 12 seed Liberty (28-6) in the first round matchup on Friday (approx. 7:10 p.m. PT, truTV) at Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle. The line quickly moved to Oregon by 6 or 6.5, according to VegasInsider, with an over/under of 140.5.

Fans navigating the dozens of schools in the NCAA men’s and women’s basketball tournaments might become as attached to the mascots as the athletes themselves.

LEXINGTON, Ky. (WYMT) - The UK women’s basketball team is staying right in their old Kentucky home to begin the NCAA Tournament. The Cats will face Liberty inside Memorial Coliseum on Friday, March 21. The team is a 4-seed or better in the NCAA Tournament for the 12th time in program history and the first time since 2021.

The Ducks (24-9) will open against No. 13 seed Liberty (28-6) in the first round of the East Region in the NCAA Tournament on Friday at Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle.

Liberty wins the Conference USA title and celebrates its NCAA tournament berth.

There's an aspect of randomness when it comes to filling out an NCAA tournament bracket, but the No. 5 seed Oregon Ducks have to be happy with what they were given. Oregon will open with the Liberty Flames in the first round of the 2025 NCAA tournament in Seattle on Friday.