Free Ways to Catch March Madness on Radio

March Madness is a college basketball fan’s favorite time of the year. Although most people watch or stream the games, listening to the action is still exciting, especially when you’re on the go and can’t watch it as it happens.

Fortunately, there are a multitude of websites, apps, and radio stations that offer March Madness radio coverage. Here’s how to listen to the March Madness games.

Find Local Radio Stations With March Madness Coverage

Local radio stations that follow home teams almost always provide audio feeds of those games throughout the season. You can also get broadcast info at Westwood One Sports, the radio home of the NFL, NCAA football, NCAA basketball, and the men’s and women’s NCAA basketball tournaments.

Westwood One streams every NCAA basketball game being broadcast and doesn’t charge you to listen. You can check out the broadcast schedule, then choose a state and program to find your local stations.

Listen to NCAA Basketball Games Online

The internet has the most options for following March Madness:

• TuneIn: This source offers original, live, and on-demand radio all in one spot. The College Basketball page lists all the games being played in addition to dozens of radio stations providing live coverage, commentary, and other sports news.
• ESPN Radio: The ESPN Radio site lists daily schedules of all its shows, including broadcasts of upcoming games. Best of all, there is no cost to listen.
• Dar.FM Radio: This site offers a list of stations broadcasting the games. Paid subscribers can record broadcasts or listen live.

Men’s NCAA Basketball on Satellite Radio

SiriusXM College Sports Radio (channel 84) provides a list of every game being played, along with the stations broadcasting those games for subscribers on the radio and online. You can even set reminders through the Sirius service so that you’ll never miss a game.

You’ll need to subscribe to SiriusXM to listen.

March Madness on Your Phone

There are plenty of sports apps offering March Madness coverage:

• TuneIn app: The TuneIn app gives you access to hundreds of radio stations, including those carrying the games. This service is available for phones and tablets, smart speakers, gaming consoles, and other devices.
• Varisty Network App: This app, which is free for iPhone and iPad, is the official streaming partner of Westwood One’s March Madness coverage and calls itself the “ultimate app for college sports fans.” You can follow along with live audio streaming and also access past games for on-demand listening.
• NCAA March Madness Live App: If you have an iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, or Apple TV, you can listen to all the games broadcast across TBS, CBS, TNT, and truTV with the free NCAA March Madness Live app for Android, iOS, and Amazon Fire devices.

• CBS Sports app: If you don’t subscribe to any television service, then download the free CBS Sports app. In addition to listening to the games broadcast by this network television station, you’ll get the full schedule of which stations are broadcasting which games, along with the full tournament schedule once it becomes available.