Basketball fans wait all year long for this week. The NCAA Men’s and Women’s Basketball Tournaments are getting ready to tip off; the Men’s First Four round starts on Tuesday, March 18, and the Women’s begins on Wednesday, March 19. We’ve assembled a comprehensive guide to let you know the best way to watch every game from both tournaments, letting you know which channels you’ll need and where to find them all below!

Key Details:

• Men’s March Madness will play out on TNT, TBS, truTV, and CBS once again this year.
• The Women’s Tournament will be aired on ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNEWS, and ESPNU.
• There are a number of on-demand streamers that will carry games, as well.

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How to stream 2025 NCAA Men’s and Women’s Basketball Tournaments

The 2025 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament will air games on TNT, TBS, truTV, and CBS, as it has in years past. The best live TV streaming options for watching all games on one service include DIRECTV STREAM, Hulu + Live TV, and YouTube TV, which all include each of the channels you’ll need to watch.

The Women’s Tournament will be shown on ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNEWS, and ESPNU. For this tournament, we recommend Sling TV most highly, but DIRECTV STREAM, Fubo, Hulu + Live TV, and YouTube TV will also be options to see every game.

Games from the Men’s Tournament will also be streamed on Max and Paramount+, while select contests from the Women’s Tournament will air on ESPN+ and Disney+. Find out more about those options below!

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Which live TV streamers carry all 2025 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament games?

DIRECTV STREAM is our first recommendation for watching all games from the Men’s March Madness tournament. It offers CBS, TNT, TBS, and truTV in a huge selection of markets in its ENTERTAINMENT package, which starts at $87 per month. The MySports pack offers most of these channels, but it may not include CBS in your area, so upgrading to ENTERTAINMENT is probably the best way to go. DIRECTV STREAM also comes with a five-day free trial for new subscribers.

Hulu + Live TV also comes with each of the channels you’ll need to stream the Men’s Basketball Tournament in 2025. It comes with a three-day free trial, after which plans start at $82 per month. Any Hulu + Live TV plan at $83 per month or more comes with the Disney Bundle included free as well, providing Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+ in addition to live channels.

YouTube TV carries all the channels you’ll need to stream the tournament as well, and its base plan starts at $83 per month. Its free trial lasts between two days and two weeks depending on a number of factors, but it doesn’t come with any free streaming services included in the price.

Which streamers carry some games from the 2025 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament?

Sling TV doesn’t carry CBS in any market, but both of its base plans do carry TNT and TBS. The truTV channel is normally only in the Blue package, but for a limited time customers of the Orange plan can watch the channel and enjoy March Madness games on it at no additional cost. Sling’s Orange plan costs $46 per month normally, and also includes ESPN, ESPN2, and ESPN3 for watching Women’s Tournament games.

Fubo does carry CBS, but it doesn’t offer TNT, TBS, or truTV in any area. This streamer has plans starting at $85 per month (not including regional sports network fees that most customers have to pay), and comes with a free trial of between one and seven days depending on factors like what time of month you sign up.

Which streamers carry all games from the 2025 NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament?

Sling TV is our favorite choice by far here. It carries ESPN, ESPN2, and ESPN3 for ABC simulcasts in its Orange plan. ESPNU and ESPNEWS are only available in the Sports Extra plan, which costs an extra $11 per month on top of a $46 base package. That brings the total cost of watching every women’s tournament game on Sling TV $57 per month, cheaper than any other option even before you factor in the 50% discount on Sling TV base plans that’s currently available.

Hulu + Live TV is the next-best choice, because it includes all the channels you need in its base package with no add-ons needed. For $83 per month after the three-day free trial, you will be able to stream all games in the tournament, plus you’ll get access to ESPN+ and be able to choose that streamer for any games simulcast there.

DIRECTV STREAM is next, though you’ll have to get the Sports add-on pack to watch ESPNEWS and ESPNU with the ENTERTAINMENT package for an additional $15 per month. That will raise your price to $103 per month at minimum, but you still get the five-day free trial that comes to all customers.

Fubo comes with the ESPNEWS and ESPNU channels in its Pro plan, which starts at $85 per month. However, the streamer also comes with a regional sports network fee that almost all customers have to pay when they sign up, raising the price of the Pro plan to $101 per month overall.

YouTube TV carries all the channels you’ll need for the women’s tournament in its base plan. The price is $83 per month, after the varying-length free trial described above.

Which on-demand streamers offer 2025 NCAA Men’s and Women’s Basketball Tournament games?

On the men’s side, fans can watch any games on TNT, TBS, and truTV via Max and its Bleacher Report Sports hub. This is currently available to all subscribers, but soon the Bleacher Report add-on will only be found on ad-free plans starting at $17 per month. The changeover will take effect on March 30.

Any men’s games found on CBS will be available to stream on the ad-free tier of Paramount+, known as Paramount+ with SHOWTIME. This plan costs $13 per month after a seven-day free trial and comes with a live stream of your local CBS station in all markets. Men’s March Madness games won’t be available on the ad-supported Paramount+ plan.

For the Women’s Tournament, viewers will be able to watch select games on ESPN+ and Disney+, including the Final Four and championship game. ESPN+ will not carry every game of the tournament, and will not get any exclusive matchups from the tournament. Any games shown on Disney+ will be available to all subscribers of that service, not just those who also subscribe to ESPN+.

A previous version of this article incorrectly stated that Fubo only carried ESPNEWS and ESPNU in its Elite package.