What NCAAB data is available?

Live scores, final results and schedules via the shared basketball surface, filtered with ?league=ncaab, plus the full March Madness bracket on GET /v1/ncaab/tournament?season=2025. Conference standings are not loaded for 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.

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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 the March Madness bracket on its own route. Conference standings are not loaded for NCAAB.

Coverage

Live for NCAA men’s basketball: real-time scores, final results and schedules via the shared basketball surface (?league=ncaab), plus the full March Madness bracket on /v1/ncaab/tournament. Conference standings are not loaded for 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=2026-02-01" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $BBS_API_KEY"

/v1/ncaab/tournament

Full March Madness bracket: 134 games, rounds 0-6, seeds and regions.

curl "https://api.bigballsdata.com/v1/ncaab/tournament?season=2025" \
  -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.

Bracket seed tracker

Seed, region and round for all 134 March Madness games, men’s and women’s.

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 the March Madness bracket. 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 and schedules via the shared basketball surface, filtered with ?league=ncaab, plus the full March Madness bracket on GET /v1/ncaab/tournament?season=2025. Conference standings are not loaded for 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.

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