Yahoo Sports’ Jason Fitz, Caroline Fenton and Isis ‘Ice’ Young make their predictions for Saturday’s national semifinals featuring Florida vs. Auburn and Houston vs. Duke – then name the team that they believe will win the national championship. Hear the full conversation on the “College Basketball Power Hour” podcast – and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.

These games are so tight that I have to look at tiebreakers in my mind, and tiebreakers to me are the player that I trust the most in the biggest moments.

And all I keep thinking about with Auburn is Janaih Broom’s arm dangling, and I respect the heck out of the fact that he came back in, but man, I don’t, I don’t think any of us can really know what that’s gonna impact here and what we, how many times have we seen Clayton just go.

And get the shot when he needs the shot the most.

So I trust the player that has come up the most clutch in the tournament to do it again.

I will take Florida over Auburn as a result.

I’d say the same thing on the other side, that, frankly, you know, Houston’s defense can take so much away, but as much as we talk about Cooper Flag, I think Conan Nipple is also somebody that deserves a ton of credit for the way he’s played in this tournament.

They got two guys that are almost impossible to stop.

I think that’s enough to propel Duke, so we end up with the Duke versus Florida national championship game.

And that’s where again, best player on the court, if it all goes even to me, is still gonna be Cooper Flag.

That’s it, that’s an inch.

I like, I don’t know y’all.

I feel like I’m flipping the coin, but I, I, my pre-tournament pick was Duke to win the championship.

I will, I will stick with Duke beating Florida in the national.

Championship game, but man, this Florida team’s hot.

I don’t feel good about any of, I would not put my money on any of this cause I think it’s too tight to do that, but that’s how I get there.

Yeah, I feel like a lot of people have a Florida and Duke national championship, and I’m not mad at it at all.

It’s tough to say that.

These teams won’t get there because of how they performed to the tournament, how they continue to pull out games.

Uh, I do have Florida beating Auburn.

Um, I’m sticking with my stat that no national champion has ever lost 3 out of the last 4 regular season games, so I just don’t think that Auburn’s gonna, gonna make that history.

Um, and then I’m sticking with who I’ve had winning this thing the whole time, which has been Houston.

I think Houston’s defense is gonna be something that Duke has.

Tough time dealing with.

I think they’re gonna send Cooper fly to the NBA.

We wish you well, my guy.

And then I think they’re gonna beat Florida, and then I think they’re going to beat Florida.

Um, I kind of believe in just, uh, their style of play, the fact that they can make it ugly and they don’t have to win it in a, in a pretty way.

They don’t have to knock down a bunch of threes or whatever else.

Um, they’re kind of my fun pick.

I’m gonna take Houston to beat Duke pre pre-tournament.

I had Duke in Florida in the national championship game.

I’m after I watched what Houston did to Tennessee, I am riding the kooks.

It is Houston in the national championship, but that’s where it stops for me.

Florida’s my national champion.