It's Tennessee basketball vs Houston in the Elite Eight of 2025 March Madness bracket. Follow for live scores, NCAA Tournament updates from the game.

Houston's stifling defense crushed Tennessee in the first half, holding the Vols to just 15 points through the first 20 minutes. Those 15 points were the fewest ever by a top-two seed in the NCAA Tournament.

The nation’s stingiest defense held the Volunteers, who've never made a Final Four, to 15 first-half points, the fewest in an Elite Eight game since 1979.

Houston is one game away from the seventh Final Four in school history and faces Tennessee in the Midwest Regional final.

The Tennessee Volunteers' 19-point loss to the Houston Cougars in the Elite Eight has the men's basketball program still searching for a Final Four appearance. It was hard for college basketball fans to ignore the Vols' dismal offensive performance in the Elite Eight.

INDIANAPOLIS — In a battle of two of college basketball’s best defenses, Houston put together one of the most impressive defensive performances in NCAA Tournament history in a 69-50 win over Tennessee to send Cougars coach Kelvin Sampson to the third Final Four of his career (2021 at Houston, 2002 at Oklahoma).

Will fellow 1-seeds Houston or Auburn join them in San Antonio? Houston will have to survive the Tennessee Volunteers while Auburn will try to hold off Tom Izzo's Michigan State Spartans (5:05 p.m. ET) as the Elite Eight closes out in Indianapolis and Atlanta,

No. 1 seed Houston (34-4) defeated No. 2 seed Tennessee (30-8), 69-50, in the Elite Eight of the 2025 NCAA Tournament Sunday at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana.