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March Madness 2026: How to Watch the First Round Without Cable

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Last updated: March 21, 2026 7:41 pm
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Published: March 21, 2026
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When to look at the primary spherical

Saturday, March twenty first (ladies)

When to look at Spherical 2

Saturday and Sunday, March twenty first and twenty second (males’s); Sunday and Monday, March twenty second and twenty third (girls’s)

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The boys’s first and second rounds might be broadcast on CBS, TNT, TBS, TruTV and streamed on HBO Max. The ladies’s first and second spherical video games might be broadcast on ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPNews and streamed on ESPN Limitless.

NCAA March Insanity is right here! It has been virtually a yr for the reason that Florida Gators gained the lads’s basketball championship and the College Huskies gained the ladies’s championship, giving each groups the highest seeds within the 2026 NCAA Match. The Gators share the highest spot with Duke, Michigan and Arizona, whereas the highest 4 girls’s Huskies embrace Texas, South Carolina and UCLA. All the high seeds stay at this stage of the event, however early upsets knocked groups like BYU and Wisconsin out of the primary spherical of the lads’s competitors.

In distinction, there have been no main upsets within the girls’s first spherical, which continues till Saturday. The ladies’s second spherical begins on Sunday. The ladies’s first and second rounds might be broadcast on ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPNews and streamed on ESPN Limitless. The boys’s second spherical video games might be performed Saturday and Sunday, with video games broadcast on CBS, TBS, TNT, TruTV and streamed on HBO Max or Paramount Plus.

Here is a breakdown of all of the groups enjoying, learn how to watch, and the whole lot else you have to know.

When is March Insanity 2026?

March Insanity 2026 started on Tuesday, March seventeenth with the lads’s First 4 video games. The ladies’s First 4 was performed on Wednesday, March 18th and Thursday, March nineteenth. Video games will proceed via the rest of March and into early April. The ladies’s championship remaining is scheduled for April fifth and the lads’s remaining on April sixth.

Watch March Insanity with out cable

Girls’s March Insanity video games might be broadcast on ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU and ESPNews. The primary 4 video games of the ladies’s event will all be broadcast on ESPN2 and ESPN Limitless. Males’s March Insanity video games might be cut up between CBS, TBS, TNT and truTV. All males’s First 4 video games can be found on TruTV by way of HBO Max.

ESPN

ESPN Limitless is ESPN’s complete standalone streaming service. For simply $30 a month, you may watch each single Girls’s March Insanity sport in a single place. Learn our ESPN Limitless assessment.

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HBO Max means that you can stream 46 video games of the lads’s March Insanity event, together with the Closing 4 and the championship remaining. You can too stream as much as three matches concurrently with HBO Max’s multi-view expertise. Reside sports activities streaming is just obtainable on HBO Max’s Customary ($18.50/month) and Premium ($23/month) plans.

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You may watch choose video games stay from the primary spherical via the Elite Eight on CBS, streaming on Paramount Plus Premium. Subscriptions sometimes price $14 per 30 days, however now via March 31, new prospects and a few returning prospects can get their first two months for simply $3 per 30 days.

Watch March Insanity on stay TV streaming providers

Do not wish to subscribe to a number of streaming providers to look at March Insanity? We get it. There are some Reside TV streaming service Watch most or the entire males’s and girls’s tournaments in a single place. every We provide a free trial.

The boys’s sport might be broadcast on CBS, TBS, TNT and TruTV, whereas the ladies’s sport might be broadcast on ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU and ESPNews. Subscribe to DirecTV, Hulu Plus Reside TV, or YouTube TV to look at all channels broadcasting the lads’s and girls’s tournaments.

Word that Fubo presents main sporting occasions and likewise consists of entry to ESPN Limitless. TBS, TNT, and TruTV will not be broadcast, making them much less very best for watching the lads’s event.

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YouTube TV prices $83 per 30 days and features a suite of channels: CBS, TBS, TNT, and truTV for the lads’s event, and ESPN for the ladies’s event. At the moment, if you join YouTube TV, you get the primary two months for $60 a month, and there is additionally a 21-day free trial.

Not all native channels can be found in all markets, so you may want to verify the community broadcasting the 2026 event is obtainable in your space. You may see which native networks can be found by getting into your postal code on the welcome web page.

Learn our assessment of YouTube TV.

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Hulu with Reside TV prices $90 a month and has all of the channels you have to watch each March Insanity tournaments. You may enter your postal code on the Reside Information web page below “Can I watch native information in my space?” Discover out which native channels you may get by answering the questions on the backside of the web page.

Learn our assessment of Hulu with Reside TV.

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DirecTV’s MySports package deal prices $70 a month and consists of ABC, CBS, ESPN Limitless, TBS, TNT, and TruTV, making it one of the complete locations to look at all March Insanity video games. Use the channel search device to see what native channels can be found in your space. Learn our assessment of DirecTV MySports.

Prefectural safety

Fubo’s sports activities package deal prices $46 for the primary month after the free trial. Like the principle Fubo package deal, it presents subscriptions to ABC, CBS, and ESPN Limitless. Fubo’s Professional plan prices $74 per 30 days and consists of entry to ABC, CBS, and ESPN Limitless. Fubo at the moment presents the primary month of its Professional plan for $49. Click on right here to see which native channels you may get.
Learn our Fubo assessment.

For extra data, take a look at our stay TV streaming providers information and our suggestions for the perfect sports activities streaming providers.

March Insanity Match Schedule:

Males’s March Insanity Schedule

First 4: Tuesday-Wednesday 1st Spherical: Thursday-Friday 2nd Spherical: Saturday-Sunday Candy 16: March 26-27 Elite Eight: March 28-29 Closing 4: April 4 Nationwide Championship: April 6 8:30 PM ET (TBS)

Girls’s March Insanity Schedule

First 4 video games: Wednesday-Thursday First spherical: Friday-Saturday Second spherical: Sunday-Monday Candy 16: March 27-28 Elite Eight: March 29-30 Closing 4: April 3, 7:00 p.m. ET (Second semifinal begins half-hour after the tip of the primary sport.)NCAA Championship Recreation: April 5, at pm 3:30pm ET (ABC)

March Insanity males’s particular person schedule:

All the time east. For accomplished video games, the profitable group is displayed in daring.

First 4:

Tuesday

6:40 p.m.: No. 16 UMBC (83) vs. (86) No. 16 Howard (TruTV) 9:10 p.m.: No. 11 Texas (68) vs. (66) No. 11 North Carolina State (TruTV)

Wednesday

6:40 p.m.: No. 16 Prairie View A&M (67) vs. (55) No. 16 Lehigh (TruTV) 9:10 p.m.: No. 11 Miami (Ohio) (89) vs. (79) No. 11 SMU (TruTV)

Spherical 1:

Thursday

12:15 p.m.: No. 8 Ohio State (64) vs. (66) No. 9 TCU (CBS) 12:40 p.m.: No. 4 Nebraska (76) vs. (47) No. 13 Troy (TruTV) 1:30 p.m.: No. 6 Louisville (83) vs. (79) No. 11 South Florida (TNT) 1:50 p.m.: No. 5 Wisconsin (82) vs. (83) No. 12 Excessive Level (TBS) 2:50 p.m.: No. 1 Duke (71) vs. (65) No. 16 Siena (CBS) 3:15 p.m.: No. 5 Vanderbilt (78) vs. (68) No. 12 McNeese (TruTV) 4:05 p.m.: No. 3 Michigan State (92) vs. (67) No. 14 North Dakota State 4:25 p.m.: No. 4 Arkansas (97) vs. (78) No. 13 Hawaii (TBS) 6:50 p.m.: No. 6 North Carolina (78) vs. (82) No. 11 VCU (TNT) 7:10 p.m.: No. 1 Michigan State (101) vs. (80) No. 16 Howard (CBS) 7:25 p.m.: No. 6 BYU (71) vs. (79) No. 11 Texas (TBS) 7:35 p.m.: No. 7 St. Mary’s (50) vs. (63) No. 10 Texas A&M (TruTV) 9:25 p.m.: No. 3 Illinois (105) vs. (70) No. 14 Penn (TNT) 9:45 p.m.: No. 8 Georgia (77) vs. (102) No. 9 St. Louis (CBS) 10 p.m.: No. 3 Gonzaga (73) vs. (64) No. 14 Kennesaw State (TBS) 10:10 p.m.: No. 2 Houston (78) vs. (47) No. 15 Idaho (TruTV)

Friday

12:15 p.m.: No. 7 Kentucky (89) vs. (84) No. 10 Santa Clara (CBS) 12:40 p.m.: No. 5 Texas Tech (91) vs. (71) No. 12 Akron (TruTV) 1:35 p.m.: No. 1 Arizona (92) vs. (58) No. 16 Liu (TNT) 1:50 p.m.: No. 16 Liu (TNT) 3 Virginia (82) vs. (73) No. 14 Wright State (TBS) 2:50 p.m.: No. 2 Iowa State (108) vs. (74) No. 15 Tennessee State (CBS) 3:15 p.m.: No. 4 Alabama (90) vs. (70) No. 13 Hofstra (TruTV) 4:10 p.m.: No. 8 Villanova (76) vs. (86) No. 9 Utah State (TNT) 4:25 p.m.: No. 6 Tennessee (78) vs. (56) No. 11 Miami (Ohio) (TBS) 6:50 p.m.: No. 8 Clemson (61) vs. (67) No. 9 Iowa (TNT) 7:10 p.m.: No. 5 St. John’s (79) vs. (53) No. 12 Northern Iowa (CBS) 7:25 p.m.: No. 7 UCLA (75) vs. (71) No. 10 UCF (TBS) 7:35 p.m.: No. 2 Purdue (104) vs. (71) No. 15 Queens (TruTV) 9:25 p.m.: No. 16 Prairie View A&M (55) vs. (114) No. No. 1 Florida (TNT) 9:45 p.m.: No. 4 Kansas (68) vs. (60) No. 13 Cal Baptist (CBS) 10 p.m.: No. 2 College (82) vs. (71) No. 15 Furman (TBS) 10:10 p.m.: No. 7 Miami (80) vs. (66) No. 10 Missouri (TruTV)

Spherical 2:

Saturday

12:10 p.m.: No. 1 Michigan vs. No. 9 St. Louis (CBS) 2:45 p.m.: No. 3 Michigan State vs. No. 6 Louisville (CBS) 5:15 p.m.: No. 1 Duke vs. No. 9 TCU (CBS) 6:10 p.m.: No. 2 Houston vs. No. 10 Texas A&M (TNT) 7:10 p.m.: No. 3 Gonzaga vs. No. 11 Texas (TBS) 7:50 p.m.: No. 3 Illinois vs. No. 11 VCU (CBS) 8:45 p.m.: No. 4 Nebraska vs. No. 5 Vanderbilt (TNT) 9:45 p.m.: N0. 4 Arkansas vs. 12 Excessive Level (TBS)

Sunday

12:10 p.m.: No. 2 Purdue vs. No. 7 Miami (Florida) (CBS) 2:45 p.m.: No. 2 Iowa State vs. No. 7 Kentucky (CBS) 5:15 p.m.: No. 4 Kansas vs. No. 5 St. John’s (CBS) 6:10 p.m.: No. 3 Virginia vs. No. 6 Tennessee (CBS) TNT) 7:10 p.m.: No. 1 Florida vs. No. 9 Iowa (TBS) 7:50 p.m.: No. 1 Arizona vs. No. 9 Utah State (TruTV) 8:45 p.m.: No. 2 UW vs. No. 7 UCLA (TNT) 9:45 p.m.: No. 4 Alabama vs. No. 5 Texas Tech (TBS)

March Insanity girls’s particular person event schedule:

All the time east.

First 4:

Wednesday

Thursday

Spherical 1:

Friday

11:30 a.m.: No. 3 Duke (81) vs. (64) No. 14 Charleston (ESPN2) 12 p.m.: No. 3 TCU (86) vs. (40) No. 14 UC San Diego (ESPN) 1:30 p.m. ET: No. 8 Oregon (70) vs. (62) No. 9 Virginia Tech (ESPN2) 2 p.m.: No. 6 Baylor (67) vs. (62) No. 11 Nebraska/Richmond (ESPN) 2:30 p.m.: No. 6 Washington (72) vs. (64) No. 11 South Dakota State (ESPN Information) 3 p.m.: No. 5 Maryland (99) vs. (67) No. 12 Murray State (ESPN) 3:30 p.m.: No. 5 Ole Miss (81) vs. (66) No. 12 Gonzaga (ESPN2) 4 p.m.: No. 1 Texas (87) vs. (45) No. 16 Missouri State (ESPN) 5:30 p.m.: No. 2 Michigan (83) vs. (48) No. 15 Holy Cross (ESPN2) 5:30 p.m.: No. 4 North Carolina (82) vs. (51) No. 13 Western Illinois (ESPN Information) 6 p.m.: No. 2 LSU (116) vs. (58) No. 15 Jacksonville (ESPN) 6 p.m.: No. 4 Minnesota (75) vs. (58) No. 13 Inexperienced Bay (ESPNU) 7:30 p.m.: No. 5 Michigan State (65) vs. (62) No. 12 Colorado State (ESPN Information) 8 p.m.: No. 7 North Carolina State (10) vs. (61) No. 10 Tennessee (ESPN) 8:30 p.m.: No. 7 Texas Tech (57) vs. (52) No. 10 Villanova (ESPNU) 10 p.m.: No. 4 Oklahoma State (89) vs. (59) No. 13 Idaho (ESPN)

Saturday

11:30 p.m.: No. 3 Ohio State vs. No. 14 Howard (ESPN2) 12:00 p.m.: No. 3 Louisville vs. No. 14 Vermont (ESPN) 1:00 p.m.: No. 1 South Carolina vs. No. 16 Sanford/Southern (ABC) 1:30 p.m. : No. 7 Georgia vs. No. 10 Virginia/Arizona State (ESPN2) 2 p.m.: No. 6 Notre Dame vs. No. 11 Fairfield (ESPN) 2:30 p.m.: No. 5 Kentucky vs. No. 12 James Madison (ESPN) 2:30 p.m. 0 minutes: No. 6 Alabama vs. No. 11 Rhode Island (ESPN Information) 3:00 p.m.: No. 1 College vs. No. 16 UTSA (ABC) 3:30 p.m.: No. 8 Clemson vs. No. 9 USC (ESPN2) 4:00 p.m.: No. 2 Iowa vs. No. 15 UTSA (ABC) Aerie Dickinson (ESPN) 5 p.m.: No. 4 West Virginia vs. No. 13 Miami (Ohio) (ESPNU) 5:30 p.m.: No. 8 Iowa State vs. No. 9 Syracuse (ESPN2) 7 p.m.: No. 2 Vanderbilt vs. No. 15 Excessive Level (ESPN Information) 7:30 p.m.: No. 8 Oklahoma State vs. No. 9 Princeton (ESPN2) 9:30 p.m.: No. 7 Illinois vs. No. 10 Colorado (ESPN2) 10 p.m.: No. 1 UCLA vs. No. 16 California Baptist (ESPN)

Spherical 2:

Sunday

12:00 p.m.: No. 4 North Carolina vs. No. 5 Maryland (ESPN) 1:00 p.m.: No. 2 Michigan vs. No. 7 North Carolina State (ESPN) 2:00 p.m.: No. 4 Minnesota vs. No. 5 Ole Miss (ESPN) 3:00 p.m.: No. 2 LSU vs. No. 7 Texas Tech (ABC) 4:00 p.m.: No. 3 Duke vs. No. 6 Baylor (ESPN) 6:00 p.m.: No. 1 Texas vs. NP. 8 Oregon State (ESPN) 8 p.m.: No. 5 Michigan State vs. No. 4 Oklahoma State (ESPN) 10 p.m.: No. 3 TCU vs. No. 6 Washington (ESPN)

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