Final Four expert picks: Who will win the 2027 NCAA Tournament and more bold predictions for this season

In advance of last season, six different people who type words about college basketball for CBS Sports were asked to predict the winner of the 2026 NCAA Tournament.

Regardless of whether things were actually that wide-open or not, the fact that six different schools could reasonably be picked suggests it felt that way at the time. But this time around the replies were much more focused. Some were Florida. Some were Duke. Nobody else got a so-called first-place vote. If we're right, that means either Florida's Todd Golden is about to win his second national championship and basically solidify a spot in the Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame or Duke's Jon Scheyer is about to get his first after winning a record 124 games in his first four years as a head coach.

Full Final Four predictions from our experts are below.

George Mason, FAU, Loyola Chicago and Butler are among the true mid-majors that have advanced to a Final Four this century. Add it up, and five mid-majors made the Final Four from 2006 to 2013. That's five in an eight-year span. Based on where things are headed, I believe those days are over. So my bold prediction is…

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