56 ESPN analysts pick men's Final Four winners and eventual champion

Which teams bash ESPN analysts person winning the men's Final Four games this weekend? And which 1 bash they foretell to chopped down the nets successful San Antonio connected Monday night?

We polled 56 personalities who person covered the men's assemblage hoops play connected ESPN platforms this play -- from past nationalist champions Jim Boeheim and Jay Williams to Bracketologist Joe Lunardi -- connected the winners of Auburn vs. Florida and Duke vs. Houston. We besides asked them to prime their nationalist champion.

The semifinals results don't stray acold from the likelihood astatine ESPN BET -- but they bash connected the rubric winner.

Duke, Florida favorites to triumph Final Four

Walter Clayton Jr. and the Florida Gators were picked by 59% of the analysts polled (a 33 to 23 split) to bushed Johni Broome and the Auburn Tigers -- astir precisely the aforesaid implied probability (60%) of Florida's -155 money-line odds.

Meanwhile, Cooper Flagg and the Duke Blue Devils were picked by 73% (or 41) of the respondents to decision L.J. Cryer and the Houston Cougars, again intimately matching the implied probability (72%) of Duke's -260 money-line odds.

Duke favored to win, No. 2 a imaginable surprise

Little astonishment here: Most picked the Blue Devils to chopped down the nets astatine the Alamodome connected Monday nighttime with 61% of the enactment (or 34 votes).

But dissimilar the futures marketplace astatine ESPN BET, which gives Florida the second-best likelihood to triumph it all, the second-most picked squad isn't from the SEC. Rather, 11 of the 15 analysts who picked Houston to triumph its Final Four matchup against Duke person the Cougars going each the way.

Florida (seven) and Auburn (four) divided the last votes. See the afloat breakdown of votes below!

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