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NCAAWB Overview

Get started with NCAA Women's Basketball API v8

Introduction

Sportradar’s NCAAWB API offers a comprehensive suite of game and seasonal stats to power your basketball experiences.

All game data feeds update in real-time as games are played and are compiled via Sportradar‘s expert in-house operators. Real-time scoring is provided for all Division I games with live play-by-play for select games. Click here for additional coverage information.

Primary feeds will return schedules, standings, team info, and real-time scores. Additional feeds provide complimentary data, including team rosters and Top 25 rankings.

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API Map

To best utilize the NCAA Women's Basketball API, you will need several parameters to create your API calls. The map below illustrates how you can obtain the parameters you need.

The primary feeds require only a date or season to call the endpoints. Those feeds provide Game, Team, or Player Ids which can be used to generate the game, team, and player feeds. All of the other feeds require no variables.

Tournament IDs

Tournament Ids are only listed in the Tournament List feed. Use the Tournament List to get the Ids required to access the Tournament Schedule and Tournament Summary.


Endpoint Descriptions

Daily Change Log – Provides IDs and timestamps for teams, players, game statistics, schedules, and standings that have been modified on a given date. To receive the data updates, use these unique IDs to pull relevant API feeds.

Daily Schedule – Date, time, location, and other event details for every match-up taking place in the league defined day.

Game Boxscore – Top-level team scores by quarter.

Game Summary – Top-level boxscore information along with detailed game stats at the team and player levels.

League Hierarchy – League, conference, division, and team identification and association information.

League Leaders – NCAA leader information for various offensive and defensive categories including full player seasonal statistics for each player in each category.

Play-By-Play – Detailed, real-time information on every team possession and game event.

Player Profile – Provides player biographical information and seasonal statistics.

Rankings (Current) – List of current Associated Press and USA Today rankings, including those teams not ranked but receiving votes.

Rankings (Weekly) – List by week of Associated Press and USA Today rankings, including those teams not ranked but receiving votes.

RPI Rankings – RPI information including rating, strength of schedule, ranking, and records based on the Sportradar’s RPI calculations.

Schedule – Date, time, location, and other event details for every match-up taking place in the full league season.

Seasonal Statistics – Detailed team and player statistics for the defined season.

Seasons – Provides a list of all available seasons.

Standings – Detailed team records across various views including, overall, conference, and division information.

Team Profile – Detailed team information including league affiliation information as well as player roster information.

Teams – Provides a complete list of active teams in the NCAA Women's Basketball API database.

Tournament List – Summarized list of all tournaments scheduled for the given season including tournament name, location, start date, and end date.

Tournament Schedule – Date, time, location, and other event details for every match-up taking place for a given tournament.

Tournament Statistics – Detailed team and player statistics for the defined tournament.

Tournament Summary – Tournament information including location, status, start date, end date, set up and participants.



Data Retrieval Samples

To find a team's leader in assists for a given game:

  1. Call the schedule or daily schedule and find the Game Id for the chosen game
  2. Call the Game Boxscore using the Game Id
  3. Find the Team Assists Leader statistics and locate the player full_name attribute

The name of the team's leader in assists is displayed.


To find the coach's name for a given team:

  1. Call the season or series schedule and find id for the coach's team
  2. Call the Team Profile using the Team ID
  3. Find the coach element and locate the full_name attribute

The coach's full name is displayed.


Coverage Levels

We provide two different levels of detail to ensure maximum coverage. We combine coverage levels with the correct feeds to ensure you are getting the most comprehensive data offering in the most efficient manner possible.

Full – We provide live play-by-play coverage for the entire game. We provide updated scores and time remaining as well as team and player level data in near real time.

Full coverage is available for:

  • All games featuring an AP Top 25 team
  • All "Power Five" (ACC, B1G, Big 12, Pac-12, SEC) Conference Tournament games
  • All Division I March Madness Tournament games

Extended Boxscore – We provide scores and time remaining, in a timely manner, as the game progresses. We provide team and player level data for the game within 120 minutes of the official results being posted. Extended Boxscore coverage is available for any game involving a Division I program, not covered via our full coverage offering.



Integration Links


Postman Workspace

Our entire Media APIs are available on Postman. Click the link above to be taken directly to our NCAA Women's Basketball API collection.

Feel free to follow and/or fork any collections to receive updates.


Schema Download

Open the zip file below to access our entire NCAA Women's Basketball API XSD schema.

NCAAWB v8 Schema


Simulations

Click here for a detailed breakdown on our available simulations.



Data Entry Workflow

See below for a daily breakdown of data updates for the NCAA Women's Basketball API.

Sunday

  • Final game times and coverage levels set for day's games (10am CT)
  • Games stats validated and moved to closed status (120 minutes after game goes final)

Monday

  • Weekly AP and USA Today Top 25 Polls Created (5pm CT)
  • Final game times and coverage levels set for day's games (10am CT)
  • Initial coverage levels set for week's games [Monday-Sunday] (5pm CT) Levels subject to change
  • TV Broadcast information updated (End of Day)
  • Games stats validated and moved to closed status (120 minutes after game goes final)
  • Seasonal stats validation (All Day)

Tuesday

  • Final game times and coverage levels set for day's games (10am CT)
  • Games stats validated and moved to closed status (120 minutes after game goes final)
  • Seasonal stats validation (All Day)

Wednesday

  • Final game times and coverage levels set for day's games (10am CT)
  • Games stats validated and moved to closed status (120 minutes after game goes final)
  • Seasonal stats validation (All Day)

Thursday

  • Final game times and coverage levels set for day's games (10am CT)
  • Games stats validated and moved to closed status (120 minutes after game goes final)

Friday

  • Final game times and coverage levels set for day's games (10am CT)
  • Games stats validated and moved to closed status (120 minutes after game goes final)

Saturday

  • Final game times and coverage levels set for day's games (10am CT)
  • Games stats validated and moved to closed status (120 minutes after game goes final)

Important Dates & Timings

  • NCAA Women's Basketball schedule becomes available by late October.

  • All game times and dates are monitored and validated throughout the season and confirmed the day of the game.

  • Coverage levels are set prior to the start of each week and re-affirmed each morning.