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Apple Sports App Lets You Follow NCAA March Madness in Real Time

The Apple Sports app has been updated to make it easier for fans of college basketball to follow their favorite teams during March Madness.

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Version 3.8.1 of the app introduces new in-app brackets that let fans track the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament in real time, by visualizing their team's path from the First Four through the Final Four alongside live scores, play-by-play updates, and detailed stats.

Designed for speed and simplicity, the Apple Sports app gives fans a fast, personalized way to stay on top of the teams and leagues they love. Users can customize their scoreboards by following favorite teams, tournaments, and leagues, quickly navigate between scores and upcoming games, explore play-by-play and lineup details, and tap directly to the Apple TV app to watch live events.

Apple introduced the Apple Sports app in 2024 as a streamlined way to quickly check live scores and key statistics. The app is available on iPhone across multiple regions, including the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, and several other European countries.

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Top Rated Comments

8 months ago

To those of us outside the US what the heck actually is March Madness?

It’s the college tournament. It is hugely popular with fans filling out brackets of the selected 68 teams to predict who will win. It’s a massive event
It's where, instead of the usual madness of the US, we amp it up even more for the month of March. :)
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8 months ago

I’m not sure I could take a sporting event seriously from a country where the most popular pastime involves neither feet nor a spherical object 😉
This is an article about college basketball. Basketballs are spherical objects. They also try to get that spherical object through a circular object. This means there are more circles and spheres than in football/soccer. Also, last time I checked all the players run on and jump with their feet. So you are covered in your love of feet and spherical objects if you watch basketball.
Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)
8 months ago

To those of us outside the US what the heck actually is March Madness?
It’s the college tournament. It is hugely popular with fans filling out brackets of the selected 68 teams to predict who will win. It’s a massive event
Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)
8 months ago
Good to know. Waiting for the app to be available in more countries.
Score: 1 Votes (Like | Disagree)
elrojo69 Avatar
8 months ago

FALSE! 😁

I was here, in Michigan, with the other 105,490 fans: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_NHL_Winter_Classic
I'm JK. Hockey is a tough sport. It's just not one i grew up with so I don't really watch.
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WarmWinterHat Avatar
8 months ago

Same here.

I don't work in that environment anymore, but I always enjoyed the camaraderie around being in an office pool with a bunch of coworkers.

Starting tomorrow there are games all day for four days straight. Gotta love it!
I enjoy it. At the hospital I'm at, every unit/department is doing a bracket.
Score: 1 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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