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No. The 2025/26 Division I regular season and March Madness are both over, so there are no live games today. Historical games and team form remain queryable, and the full 2025/26 bracket is at GET /v1/ncaab/tournament?season=2025. We do not hold NCAA basketball standings — /v1/standings has no NCAAB adapter loaded. Live coverage resumes in November. No live Division I game is presented on this page. The loaded archive’s finished games run to 2026-02-01 and are not being refreshed in-game, so treat every row as archive evidence. Read the returned status field rather than hard-coding a date, because not every loaded game carries a final result.

Yes, on its own route: the tournament bracket is served by /v1/ncaab/tournament with seeds, rounds and final scores for both the men’s and women’s draws. It is not part of the NCAAB match collection, whose round field is null on every row and whose finished games stop on 2026-02-01. A season label is the year the season began, so the bracket played in spring 2026 is season=2025.

No NCAAB odds product is advertised today. The WNBA and NBA availability of a basketball route does not prove college markets exist. Betting interfaces should omit the market panel instead of rendering an empty paid card.

None of those are served for NCAAB. The match events route answers 200 with an empty array and reports events in fields_missing on every plan including Pro, so no paid tier turns that empty set into an event stream. The supported NCAAB workflows are game, game-detail, bracket, form, and head-to-head oriented; do not reuse NBA player fields because both leagues are basketball.

No. A request to the standings route with league=ncaab answers 400 with an explicit message naming the leagues that do have standings, and NCAAB is not among them. Build the results view from the match collection, program form, and head-to-head instead, and label it as such rather than presenting a schedule slice as a conference table.

Use sport=basketball and league=ncaab, then filter by date or status against the loaded archive. Keep the returned status instead of assuming every past game carries a final score. An explicit prior-season request can resolve to a higher history floor, so honor any plan_required response.

The schema vocabulary is shared, but capability depth is not. NBA offers dedicated players, lineups, leaders, props, standings, and play-by-play surfaces that are not claimed here. NCAAB is currently positioned around Division I games, period linescores, the tournament bracket, and team history.

Create an API key, then request the matches collection with sport=basketball and the league code shown on this page. Send the key as X-API-Key or as a bearer token. Keep the returned match and team IDs as opaque strings for later detail calls.

Every data request needs an API key, while public documentation does not. Server-side applications should keep the key in an environment variable and never ship it in browser JavaScript. A 401 means the credential is missing or invalid, not that the league has no rows.

An empty collection can be a valid answer for a date, status, or season filter with no matching games. Check the HTTP status and response error before treating it as an outage. Do not convert a failed request into a claim that the league has zero data.

Use the canonical IDs returned by list endpoints and store them as opaque strings. Names and abbreviations are presentation fields and can change or collide. Resolve the record first, then follow its ID into detail, form, head-to-head, or odds routes.

Free is intended for evaluation and a small working prototype. The published allowance is 250 requests per day, or 500 with GitHub connected. Cache finished games and inspect rate-limit headers instead of repeatedly polling immutable results.

Yes. The MCP server exposes match, standings, player-stat, Elo, and coverage tools where the underlying league supports them. Ask the agent to inspect coverage first and to leave unsupported fields unavailable. REST remains necessary for routes that do not have an MCP tool.

A route has a minimum plan, and some shared routes also have a sport-specific floor. This page reads those floors from the same endpoint-plan registry used by the product. A 403 plan_required response should be treated as a product boundary, not retried as a transient error.

WebSocket delivery is a Pro capability when the league has a supported live feed. A WebSocket plan does not create fields the REST product does not hold. Use the REST timestamps and the league-specific freshness notes before promising an in-game latency.

Yes, on its own route. GET /v1/ncaab/tournament?season=2025 returns the full bracket — 134 games (67 men’s, 67 women’s), rounds 0 through 6 including both championship games, each carrying seed, region and round. Tournament games are not returned by /v1/matches, which covers the regular season; use the tournament route for the bracket.

Not currently. Odds coverage focuses on the major pro leagues; college lines are tracked as a roadmap item.

Yes. It covers scores, historical games, team data and the full March Madness bracket. There is a free tier; pricing lists what each plan covers. Standings and play-by-play events are not loaded for NCAA basketball on any plan. Free keys get 250 req/day (500 with GitHub).