The NCAA Tournament bracket has been set, and March Madness is about to takeover the sports world for the next month. You’re going to want to be tuned in to all of the action, and that means answering the age-old question that befuddles college basketball fans each season,

Four different networks are carrying March Madness games in 2025. During the first round of the tournament, TruTV, CBS, TNT and TBS will carry various games. TruTV is channel 246 on DirecTV. It's listed as channel 242 on Dish. It varies on other providers.

On DirecTV Stream, truTV is channel 246. For SlingTV, subscribers can access truTV with the Sling Blue package. All of the First Four games are set to be broadcast on truTV along with eight games in the First Round.

Games in the men’s NCAA tournament will air across CBS, TBS, TNT and TruTV. Don’t have cable? Don’t worry. You can stream the men’s games easily with a subscription to Paramount+ and Max, or a live TV streaming service like DirecTV, Fubo or Sling.

Madness 2025 is in full swing with two regional final games Saturday night. What are start times? What channel is the game on? What we know.

NCAA Tournament begins with the First Four play-in games on Tuesday, March 18, 2025 (3/18/25) and Wednesday, March 19, 2025 (3/19/25) at University of Dayton Arena in Dayton, Ohio.

Fans can watch the tournament via free trials to DirecTV Stream and fuboTV, or via a subscription to Sling TV, which offers 50% off the first month. Here’s a TV Schedule of the Elite 8 games (you can sign up to watch the games with the links listed below):

Milos Uzan led all scorers with 22 points on 8-of-17 shooting, none bigger than his last-second layup to win the game. He added six assists and three rebounds and was 6-of-9 from three-point range. Emmanuel Sharp added 17 for Houston.

Men’s college basketball action continues as the No. 1 seed Florida Gators take on the No. 3 Texas Tech Red Raiders in this NCAA Tournament Elite 8 matchup.