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Time for the 4th Annual Wonder of Tech round-up of the Best March Madness Apps! Each year new apps are launched and classic apps are updated to give you the best NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament coverage. If you’re a fan of basketball, college sports or fun, make sure to check out these apps! If you didn’t get into March Madness before, you may now with these apps!
All of these apps have been updated in 2014 in their iOS and Android formats for this year’s NCAA Basketball Tournament. Every app listed here is your favorite price — free of charge!
SportsManias
I discovered this app and wrote about it last week, just in time for the start of the NCAA Tournament. This free app and website gives you all the sports news about your favorite teams in one place. You can see sports news from local newspapers, follow relevant tweets and see head-to-head tweets from both sides during a game.
See my full review: SportsManias: Custom Sports News about Your Favorite Teams!
SportsManias is available free for:
NCAA March Madness Live
This free app gives you live streaming of every NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament game broadcast on CBS, TBS, TNT and truTV. Note that you have to log in with your account for your TV provider for games on networks other than CBS, but a free 3 hour preview is available for everyone.
This app also gives you breaking news, and can alert you to upsets, overtime games, close games, and other news about your favorite teams. Watch recaps of Unbelievable Moments and game highlights. If you’re away from Wi-Fi and don’t want to use you your data plan for the month, check out the live radio broadcasts of the games.
NCAA March Madness Live app is available free for:
CBS Sports
This “must have” app gives you free live streaming to your mobile device of the games broadcast on CBS. No excuse now for missing a big game wherever you are. Follow your bracket picks, get news, scores, schedules and receive push notifications of breaking news.
CBS Sports is available free for:
ESPN Tournament Challenge
Create a bracket and follow along with the ESPN Tournament Challenge app. This app lets you compete against your friends’ bracket picks and have the scores calculated automatically. You can also compete against celebrities, professional athletes and politicians.
The ESPN Tournament Challenge app is available free for:
Thuuz
If you’re looking for exciting games, Thuuz is the app for you. Thuuz covers a wide range of sports, including the NCAA Tournament, and gives each game an excitement rating. Use Thuuz to alert you to the most exciting upcoming and live games so you don’t miss out on any of the action. Thuuz can also help you plan your schedule of which games to watch and when.
Thuuz is available free for:
Billion Dollar Bracket Challenge
Looking to win $1 billion? Check out Quicken Loan’s Billion Dollar Bracket Challenge! All you have to do is defy the 1 in 9 quintillion odds and fill out a perfectly predicted March Madness bracket then Quicken Loans will give you a cool $1 billion.
That’s billion with a “b”.
You can sign up at Yahoo Fantasy Sports by 1:00 am March 20 EDT but only the first 15 million people to sign up can enter the contest. If no one picks the perfect bracket then the 20 people with the most accurate picks will get checks for $100,000.
Make sure you read the rules and regulations before picking your perfect bracket.
Good luck!
Your Thoughts
Will you be watching the NCAA Tournament this year? Will you be using apps to follow the fun? Do you have any other March Madness apps you recommend? Have you entered the Billion Dollar Bracket Challenge to win $1 billion? Let us know in the Comments section below!
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*Basketball hoop photo by Brad Day (frame added)
Hi Carolyn,
This sounds fun 🙂
I think those who enjoy sports, whether in their college or otherwise, would love these apps. I didn’t know about the NCAA Tournament as we don’t have them much our end, though we have the other yearly games, and cricket is what rules more our end I would say – when the whole country seems to have ‘cricket fever’ for those many days!
I am not much of a sporty, except the little watching I do, but not all that often. I guess I’d rather watch romantic movies than sports, if given the chance 😉 But I do know a lot of my online friends who’d love to hear of this, so sharing it right away.
Thanks once again for these apps. Have a nice week ahead 🙂
Hi Harleena, You’re absolutely right, the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament is very exciting. Even people who never watch sports any other time of the year can get into basketball in March. The excitement is contagious, especially if your school is in the tournament.
I’ve been a fan of this tournament since I was in school and this year is especially thrilling because my alma mater, University of Virginia, is one of the top seeds!
Thanks so much for taking the time to comment and share, Harleena. I know a lot of people will be interested in these apps!
Hi Carolyn,
Well, I am not a basketball fan, but I know some friends who’re a fan and how enthusiastic them to the basketball game.
Since I’m a Taekwondo athlete, so I love the martial arts 🙂
I know, a lot of people who love basketball out there, therefore, I share your posts. I hope this can be useful for many people. :-bd
Thanks for sharing this awesome apps, Carolyn.
Hoping you have a nice day.
Regards,
Nanda
Hi Nanda, Thanks so much for sharing this article. Plenty of people who aren’t basketball fans any other time of the year become basketball fans when it’s time for March Madness!
I often do it on my mobile device, due to the fact that I am in very distant time zone currently. So watching in the bed is often a good idea to be done with tablet or phone.
Hi Kaloyan, Yes, watching the games on a mobile device means you can enjoy the fun almost anywhere!
Hi Carolyn,
I’m not big on basketball per se, but I typically like to see the best of the best perform, so when tournaments come along, I try to set aside some time to catch a little of it. It get’s really exciting when it’s a dead heat and i can go either way. I like the “Must See’ section of the Thuuz app.
Have a great day and weekend coming!
Bill
Hi Bill, You’re right, Thuuz would be a great app for you! If you want to know which games are the most exciting ones, Thuuz will tell you. Thuuz also covers other sports so you can find the most exciting games in any season!
Hi Carolyn,
Coming from Indian background, I got introduced to March Madness through my Toastmaster’s club several years ago. So, I do know about the buzz this month gets in the sports world 🙂
But, I have not spent time watching a game (of any kind) more than 10 hours in last 7-8 years at least. I just don’t get time for all this madness.
Yeah, planning to find some time to watch my boys play as my elder one is just getting ready to learn soccer slowly. But pretty much that’s it for now. We will see how life pans out in months to come.
Regards,
Kumar
Hi Kumar, Yes, March Madness is certainly the buzz this month. Many people are basketball fans only in March, but then the excitement really grows!
If you do tune into the games you may enjoy them more with these apps by learning more about the games, players and teams. Good luck to your son with soccer!
A billion dollars? Woah, that’s a lot of money..but the odds of getting it are really really really small 😀
(I am guessing they are making a lot of money through that particular app?).
I don’t watch any sports, at least not now (I suppose time is the main issue. Studying, blogging and other stuff don’t really have much time to do watch sports (I do watch other stuff, so I probably have enough time…but I don’t want to abandon those shows for sports!).
I find more enjoyment in playing the game..although I haven’t done that in a while 😀 Now that it is Spring (finally!), I should try and get out more often.
Anyways, thank you for sharing this awesome collection, Carolyn 🙂
Hi Jeevan, Yes, you’re right, the odds are very small for someone to win the billion dollars. Yesterday there were plenty of upsets and I heard this morning that 95% of the people who entered were eliminated (including me!). It’s probably better to be eliminated early anyway. Can you imagine getting to the finals knowing you have a 50/50 chance of winning and then you lose?
Spring isn’t here yet in the Philadelphia area but the idea of getting outside sounds like a great one!
Yeah, it’s better to get out early…the excitement of getting (a 50-50 chance) in itself can kill us.
And not getting it…well, that can send us into ‘depression’ (or maybe not. I am not a psychologist!).
Hopefully things will get better…we are having crazy weather over here. One day it is warm and sunny (in the 70s), the next day it is in the 30s!
Hello Carolyn,
Great list of sports apps to keep ourselves updated about the latest happenings of basketball,American football. In India the only sport that gets limelight attention is Cricket and when March hits its madness for Indian Premier League which goes for around two months. Thanks again for this list
Hi Jayashree, Well, none of these apps cover cricket, I’m afraid, but having lived in the UK I know how passionate people can be about the sport! I’m glad you have your version of March Madness in India, Jayashree.
I have used it for the first time and found the very fabulous experience for watching a tournament live directly on my iPhone.
Hi Wadden, Welcome to The Wonder of Tech! I’m so glad you’re enjoying these apps. Have fun with March Madness!