How To Watch NCAA March Madness 2021 - Android

It's almost time to for  March Madness with the 2021 NCAA Tournament upon us. The tournament starts on March 18, and ends with the National Championship game happening on April 7. Between that time, there will be 67 games taking place over the course of three and a half weeks. For any basketball fans out [...]

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It's almost time to for  March Madness with the 2021 NCAA Tournament upon us.

The tournament starts on March 18, and ends with the National Championship game happening on April 7. Between that time, there will be 67 games taking place over the course of three and a half weeks. For any basketball fans out there, this is what you live all year round for.

With cord cutting becoming a bigger and bigger trend, finding out how to watch NCAA March Madness in 2020 can be a difficult task. But we have everything you need to know here. Starting with where you can watch the games, what teams will be in the tournament, what days the tournament will be on, and so forth.

How to Watch NCAA March Madness 2020 Live

Here's how you can watch the tournament live. The easiest way would be with the NCAA March Madness app, which is available on just about every platform imaginable.

The only downside to the app, is that you cannot watch every single game on the app, for free. If you subscribe to cable or select streaming TV services, then you can login with your TV provider and watch all of it through the app. Otherwise, you'll be limited in what you can see. But the National Championship Game will be available for everyone to watch in the March Madness app.

There are a couple of streaming TV services that are going to be great for watching all of the games in March Madness, which we've laid out in the table below. The games will all be on CBS, TBS, TNT and TruTV. So in order to make sure that you can watch every game, you'll want to choose a service that offers all four channels.

All of these streaming services will work for watching the tournament this year, however there are a couple of caveats. One, Sling TV does not have locals, so it is missing CBS. You can get around that by getting an OTA antenna from Amazon. Which you can get these for just a few bucks these days.

Every service that is listed in the table above also offers free trials, most of them are a week long – YouTube TV is five days. Now if you're looking for the best option, it's going to be YouTube TV. We say this because you can record as many games as you want and watch them later. Fubo TV and Hulu + Live TV offer cloud DVR, but it is limited. YouTube TV is unlimited and you can record everything – literally.

When does NCAA March Madness start?

The tournament officially gets under way on March 18. But the hype around the tournament has already started. With the conference tournaments starting up right now, giving teams their final chance to convince the committee that they should be invited to the big dance.

Selection Sunday will take place on March 14, and you can watch it on CBS at 6PM ET.

After Selection Sunday, there is the "First Four" which are the four teams that were barely able to get in. They'll battle for the last two spots in the tournament. With the first round officially starting on March 20. After the first weekend, we'll already be down to 16 teams, come March 27. That will then break it down further to the Final Four after that weekend's games.

And after that, it'll be down to the semifinals and finals for the National Championship.

Unlike previous years, where the tournament took place in a handful of cities each weekend, it'll all take place in Indiana. This is due to the pandemic, and it's better to keep all of the teams in a single area, then to have them hopping on planes to different cities across the country.

The NCAA has announced that there will be two courts at Lucas Oil Stadium (that's the home of the Indianapolis Colts, so it's definitely large enough for a double court). Bankers Life Fieldhouse, Hinkle Fieldhouse, Indiana Farmers Coliseum, Mackey Arena, and Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall will host all 67 games. Most of them are in Indianapolis, with some on the outskirts of the city.

Who's the favorite to win the tournament?

Right now, there's real talk that a Big Ten team could win the tournament, for the first time in 21 years. The last Big Ten team to win the whole thing was Michigan State in 2000. There are a number of Big Ten teams that could take it all. Including Michigan who will likely enter the tournament as one of the four #1 seeds. There's also Illinois, Iowa, and Ohio State currently in the top 10. All with good chances to win it all.

Speaking of the top 10, we can't talk about March Madness without talking about Gonzaga, the current #1 in the AP Top 25 poll. Along with Baylor at #2. Perhaps surprisingly, Duke is not even in the top 25, and did not receive a single vote to be in the top 25. Duke is the team that America loves to see lose, and we may not get that chance this year.

There will definitely be some cinderella stories this year, as there always are. Don't be surprised to see some upsets in the first and second rounds. After all, that's what makes it March "Madness".

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