The College Basketball App Built for the Whole Season

Is there a free college basketball app?

Yes. Varsity Slate is free to browse with no account at all: every Division I men's schedule, live score, and final result is open, along with records and rankings. A free account adds persistence — it saves one school and one sport as your home slate and unlocks per-team and per-school calendar feeds at no cost. If your basketball life spans more than one school, the Teammate tier covers five schools for $4.99 per month or $29.99 per year, and Head Coach ($49.99 per year) removes the school limit for people tracking a whole conference. Nothing about checking a score is paywalled: land on the live scores page mid-game, read the score, leave. The paid tiers exist to remember your teams, not to unlock basketball — compare every plan side by side on the pricing page.

How do I follow several college basketball teams at once?

Pick your schools once and Varsity Slate merges their basketball schedules into one chronological slate — no tab-switching between team pages, no favorites buried inside a pro-sports app. College basketball is a midweek sport as much as a weekend one: a realistic January week stacks a Tuesday conference road game, a Thursday women's tip, and a Saturday rivalry matinee, and the slate keeps them in tip-off order with a live score on each row. The free tier follows one school; Teammate raises that to five, which fits an alma mater, the local mid-major, and the school your kid or roommate plays for. Start from the schools directory or browse the college basketball hub without signing in — the whole national slate is open to guests.

Does it show tip-off times and TV channels?

Yes. Every game page lists the scheduled tip-off time in your local time zone, the venue, and — when a broadcaster is assigned — the TV network carrying it: ESPN2, FS1, CBS Sports Network, the conference networks, and the rest. That answers the nightly "what channel is the game on" question without a separate TV-listings search. Because schedules re-sync automatically throughout the day, the flexed tip times and late TV assignments that are routine in conference play flow through on their own. One honest limit: Varsity Slate tells you where the game is airing, but it does not stream video — for that you still need the network's own app or your TV provider.

Can I get tip-off times in my calendar?

Yes. Every team and every school has an ICS calendar feed that plugs into Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, or Outlook — included on the free tier. A 30-plus-game basketball season with moving midweek tips is exactly the schedule you do not want to maintain by hand; subscribe once and postponed games, new TV windows, and time changes update in your calendar automatically as the feed refreshes. Creating a feed requires a free account, since feeds are tied to the teams you follow, and a single combined feed covering everything you follow across schools and sports is coming soon. The full setup walkthrough, calendar by calendar, lives at college sports calendar sync.

How live are the scores?

During games, scores refresh about every 30 seconds — current score and game state on every live row. That cadence fits the way basketball is actually consumed: keeping half an eye on three games while watching a fourth. On any given night, the college basketball scores page works as a live scoreboard for the full Division I slate, and the rankings page tracks the current Top 25 so a ranked matchup is easy to spot. Final results post when games go final, and season records roll up on every team's page. None of it requires an account — the live slate is open to anyone with the URL.

Does it cover women's college basketball too?

Yes — women's college basketball is one of Varsity Slate's six fully-covered sports, not an afterthought toggle. Every Division I women's program gets the same treatment as the men's side — full schedules, live scores, final results, and rankings — with its own hub at women's college basketball. Follow a school and you can put its women's slate alongside the men's; the free tier covers one sport, so tracking both programs at once is where the Teammate tier earns its keep. That matters in households that watch both sides of the sport, and the coverage floor is the same: 362 Division I men's teamson the men's side, and every D1 program on the women's.

How does it work?

1. 1.Pick your schools — Search the schools directory and follow the ones you care about, then toggle basketball (men's, women's, or both) per school.
2. 2.See your slate — Your games slate lines up every tip-off chronologically — upcoming games, live scores, and final results in one list.
3. 3.Sync and get alerts — Add a calendar feed so tip-off times land in Google or Apple Calendar automatically, and turn on alerts for game start and final scores.

How does it compare to the ESPN app and the official NCAA app?

Straight answer: if what you want is to stream every NCAA-tournament game in March, get NCAA March Madness Live — that is the official app and that is its job. Varsity Slate is built for the other five months: following your teams through non-conference play, the January–February conference grind, and championship week, across several schools at once. ESPN's app covers everything in sports at once; theScore leans pro-first. Here is the honest breakdown.

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