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NCAA Men's Basketball (NCAAB) Stats API

Live/ncaab-api

NCAA Division I men’s basketball runs on the same basketball surface as the NBA — filter any basketball call with ?league=ncaab. This page covers what NCAAB serves today: live scores, results, schedules and standings.

Coverage

Live for NCAA men’s basketball: real-time scores, final results, schedules and conference standings via the shared basketball surface (?league=ncaab). Deep player-level box-score history is deepest for the NBA — see the NBA Player Stats API for that.

Endpoints

/v1/matches

Live and scheduled NCAAB games, scores and results.

curl "https://api.bigballsdata.com/v1/matches?sport=basketball&league=ncaab&date=2026-04-06" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $BBS_API_KEY"
/v1/standings

Conference standings for NCAA men’s basketball.

curl "https://api.bigballsdata.com/v1/standings?sport=basketball&league=ncaab" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $BBS_API_KEY"

Example response

Illustrative shape of the unified envelope. Values are examples; live fields come from the call above.

{
  "data": [
    {
      "match_id": "…",
      "league": "ncaab",
      "home": "…", "away": "…",
      "status": "finished",
      "score": { "home": 74, "away": 71 }
    }
  ],
  "meta": { "source": "…", "request_id": "…" }
}

What you can build

March Madness bracket tool

Pull live tournament scores and results to drive a bracket tracker.

Conference standings widget

Render up-to-date standings for any Division I conference.

Live scoreboard

Show in-progress NCAAB scores with ?league=ncaab filtering.

Need player-level box scores and per-player stat lines for NCAAB?

Today NCAA basketball is live scores, results and standings. Deep player box-score data for college basketball is not on the surface yet — the NBA has that depth. If you need it, tell us — the number of people asking is how we decide what to build next.

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FAQ

What NCAAB data is available?
Live scores, final results, schedules and conference standings via the shared basketball surface, filtered with ?league=ncaab. Player-level box-score depth is deepest for the NBA.
How do I filter to college basketball?
Add ?league=ncaab (with ?sport=basketball) to the basketball endpoints — e.g. /v1/matches?sport=basketball&league=ncaab.

Start pulling NCAA Men's Basketball (NCAAB) Stats

Free tier: 1,000 requests/day (2,000 with GitHub), no credit card.

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