How to stream March Madness 2025

March Madness, the NCAA men’s and women’s basketball tournaments, is this month. The time of buzzer beaters, Cinderella stories, and busted brackets is finally upon us. It’s one of the most fun times of year to be a basketball fan. Even if you’re not someone who follows the sport, you can still fill out a bracket. You can pick your players based on their mascots, their colors, or even their names.

For anyone who is interested in knowing where they can stream all the games, there are a bunch of ways you can do so. You no longer need to go to your local bar to watch every game. You also don’t need a cable subscription (although this is another proven way to watch all the games.) Here’s where to enjoy the NCAA men’s and women’s tournaments this year.

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1 Paramount+

The official home of all the men’s games

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Paramount Plus

Paramount+ is the streaming service for CBS and Viacom and is the home to the Final Four and the National Championship game.

CBS and Turner Sports own the TV rights to the men’s NCAA tournament. So, Paramount+ will have all the games available to you for streaming that air on CBS. This includes numerous games throughout the first round, second round, Sweet 16, and Elite Eight. CBS is the sole channel to watch the Final Four and National Championship, so Paramount+ is the lone channel-based streamer that will have that.

You can also stream the NCAA Tournament Selection Show on Sunday, March 16. You can watch all of these from any Paramount+ app on your smart TV, laptop, and mobile device. All the games are available, no matter what subscription you have with Paramount+.

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2 Max

Many of the other games are available here

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MAX

Max offers you 43 NCAA March Madness games to stream in 2025.

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$9.99/month

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$19.99/month

Turner Sports is available to stream on Max through the Bleacher Report (B/R) Sports package that is currently included as a part of Max. The games that are streamed on TBS, TNT, and TruTV can be watched on Max. That is a total of 43 games for this year’s tournament. That includes the First Four, the four play-in games that take place in Dayton, Ohio every year between teams that have seeds either 11, 12, 13, 14, or 16.

You can stream games on Max for First Round, Second Round, Sweet 16, and Elite Eight. The Elite Eight ends on March 30, which is the day that Max is pulling the plug on its B/R Sports package being available to basic plan subscribers. So, if you have a basic plan with Max, you’ll still be able to watch all of the 2025 March Madness tournament games that are available on Max.

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3 YouTube TV

The new agreement with Paramount+ boosts this

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YouTube TV

Watch all the games through Max and Paramount+ or with the Sports package on YouTube TV.

Recently, YouTube TV and Paramount renewed their contracts, which allowed YouTube TV to continue carrying Paramount+. So, if you have the Entertainment Plus add-on bundle, which includes both Max and Paramount+, you can watch all of March Madness on YouTube TV. You can also opt for the Base Plan on YouTube TV, which includes CBS, TNT, TBS, and TruTV, covering all your March Madness bases.

It also includes ESPN, giving you the women’s tournament as well.YouTube TV might be the best place to watch March Madness because of the multiview option. With multiview, you can watch multiple games at once and create a box of four games at once. It’s not going to always line up where four games are happening at the same time, but for the first weekend of the tournament, it will frequently happen. So this gives you an added edge when streaming.

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4 FuboTV

You can watch some of the games

FuboTV

fuboTV

FuboTV offers you Paramount+ if you add it on as part of your subscription. So you can watch NCAA tournament games that way.

FuboTV is another streamer that is similar to YouTube TV. You can pick and choose the kind of package that you want and watch some of the biggest channels available. You’ll be able to watch the games that air on Paramount+ if you have the add-on package that includes Paramount+.

Unfortunately, you can’t watch TNT, TBS, or TruTV on FuboTV as it is not licensed. If you have FuboTV already, you’re probably already aware of this. But if you don’t and were looking into it for March Madness purposes, it is not your best bet. You will be able to watch the women’s tournament, as ESPN is available in every package.

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5 DirecTV Stream

Depending on the package, watch both tournaments

DirecTV Stream

The Choice package of DirecTV Stream gets you every channel for the March Madness tournaments. The Premier package does as well.

DirecTV Stream gives you the power of DirecTV and also every game in both tournaments. If you have the right package, you’ll have CBS, TNT, TBS, TruTV, and the ESPN networks that will carry the NCAA basketball tournaments. You can enjoy most of the games if you have the Entertainment package, which has CBS, TNT, TBS, and ESPN. But you need the Choice package to include TruTV.

If you have the Premier subscription, you can watch all of these on DirecTV Stream but can also stream them on either Paramount+ or Max, which are included in that package. The Sports Central feature will lay out what games are coming out at a certain time, giving you the full info to set up your day accordingly.

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6 Hulu + Live TV

Stream everything that you want

Hulu

Hulu + Live TV

Hulu + Live TV is a bundle that adds live TV to the Hulu service.

Perhaps the best bundle out there is Hulu + Live TV. This gives you three different streaming services all rolled up into one. You get Hulu, which is a terrific streamer on its own. But it also comes with over 95 channels of live TV, including CBS, TNT, TBS, TruTV, and ESPN. On top of that, you get Disney+ and ESPN+, which have you covered for the women’s tournament and then some. This guarantees you everything for March Madness.

If you just have a Disney+ subscription, you get access to ESPN and all the women’s tournament. The same goes for an ESPN+ subscription. But having Hulu + Live TV gets you the men’s tournament as well. So, if you are interested in having all of these with a ton of sports, Hulu + Live TV might be the way to go.

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