NCAA March Madness Live

No one will ever read this but the amount of ads you have to watch is infuriating, specifically whenever you start streaming a game they make you watch an ad to even get to the game whether they’re in a timeout or not and because of the number of bugs there are sometimes it just kicks you off a game and then you click it again and you have to watch another ad to start watching again it’s maddening. Like you pay how ever much to even get a tv provider so you can watch all the games and then you get over 50% of your watch time is ads to begin with and then they force you to watch an ad to even start streaming every time. It would be somewhat bearable if there were less tv timeouts, no ad at the beginning of any time you want to stream and less bugs. It also seems like they require more bandwidth to stream video than other apps, like even with fast internet you get a “connection strength not good enough to play video” message so often it’s so annoying. Please get your act together if you’re a multi billion dollar company that doesn’t even pay its athletes. Just sad

Depending on where you live in the country, you may not have access to all of the cable companies that the big cities do. We have fubo which is fine, but it does not have TNT or TBS or TRU TV. Acquiring those channels for live broadcasts should be stupidly simple, but it is not. I do not have a service to which I can add the channels. So once the free trial expires, so does my viewing. The NCAA site and app are fine but the free trial period is annoying and needless. The NCAA can share viewing data with the stations which they can use to sell ads for next year. Also, the site and the app have a conflict with multiple brands of smart TVs. The game plays for half a second and then a notice pops up that says the broadcast is incompatible. Obviously it is compatible or you couldn’t see it for even the half second. Tech is supposed to make our lives easier and more fulfilling. The tech related to this tournament does neither.

Out of all the many places I get my sports content, this might be the best for what it does. It’s very, very easy to stream games live, and if you didn’t catch the game, they do have the condensed version of the game and highlights to watch to keep yourself up to date. There’s also game previews for upcoming games, loads of stats, articles, and videos about a variety of March Madness topics, and just a really streamlined and convenient user experience overall. My one request is for the ability to keep the live stream of the game going after you exit the app, as is possible when I stream with the ESPN or NBA apps. If this had that, it would be perfect. One that I always make sure to download the second week of March for every edition of the tourney.