How to Watch the NCAA March Madness Basketball Tournament for Free

Mar 18, 2016, 04:16

The NCAA tournament TV schedule heads into first-round coverage on Thursday, March 17.

The NCAA, in partnership with Turner Sports and CBS Sports, is making the tournament super easy to stream this year. Also, note that previous year Sling TV dropped the ball when the service was overwhelmed and froze during the livestream of the tournament's semifinal games. With games spread across CBS, TNT, TBS, and TruTV, you might think you're going to need to sign an expensive cable contract to watch. With games commencing this evening, it's time to make sure you have everything setup so you'll never run the chance of missing a game this year... You can stream 3 hours of content from truTV, TNT, and TBS before you are asked to authenticate with a cable login, while all CBS content, is unlimited.

In addition to your iPhone, The March Madness Live app is also available for Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV and Roku. If you don't have a TV and/or don't have an antenna, fret not: Download the NCAA March Madness Live mobile app, and you can livestream all of the games airing on CBS.

There are a few other options, including the PlayStation Vue $40 basic package (which includes CBS, TBS, TNT and TruTV), but if you're looking to spend as little as possible, the apps and services listed above are your best shot. The app will live stream every single game during the tournament and is available on pretty much every device you can think of.

As TechHive points out, Sling TV's $20 a month "Best of Live TV" package will give customers access to both TBS and TNT.

If you have a cable login, however, you can AirPlay content from any of the broadcasts to an Apple TV.

CBS Sports is another popular March Madness app. This offers brackets, a look at the NCAA Tournament schedule and push notifications for your favorite teams.

Use Sling Tv to watch March Madness live on TNT and TBS with a free trial. This means that you can stream all the games on your Mac or iOS device with the Sling app for $20 (first 7 days are free). Fortunately, you can still watch some of the big games for free.

The good news is that if you are one of those who has chose to cut the cord, you can watch these games online. This doesn't include CBS games so you will still need the March Madness Live app.

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