NCAAMB Overview

Introduction

Sportradar’s NCAAMB 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 play-by-play coverage is provided for most conference matchups. Click here for additional coverage information.

Primary feeds will return schedules, standings, team and player data, and real-time scores.

Additional feeds provide a host of complementary stats, including: 

• Player profiles
• Team rosters
• Top 25 rankings
• Seasonal statistics
• In-game substitution info
• Live event positional data

Real-time customers are also offered two delivery Push Feeds to enhance speed.

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Authentication is required for all API calls.

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See our NCAAMB Integration Guide

Explore our NCAAMB Integration Guide for detailed, step-by-step guidance on how to build applications using our NCAAMB API.

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API Map

To best utilize the NCAA Men'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.

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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 half along with full statistics for each team’s leader in points, rebounds, and assists.

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

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.

NET Rankings – Provides the NCAA NET rankings for a given season.

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 game 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 – Provides top-level team information and a full roster of active players.

Teams – Provides a complete list of active teams in the NCAA Men'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.

Push Events – Detailed, real-time information on every game event.

Push Statistics – Detailed, real-time game stats at the team and player level for all live games.

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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.

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To find a player's average points per game:

1. Call the season or series schedule and find id for the team the player is on
2. Call the Team Profile using the Team ID
3. Locate the Player ID for your chosen player and call the Player Profile.
4. Find the average element with the points attribute

The players's average points are displayed.

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Coverage Levels

We provide two coverage levels to ensure the most comprehensive data offering.

Full – We provide live play-by-play coverage for the entire game. We provide scores and time remaining, as well as team- and player-level data in near real time. Full coverage is available for any game in which we have a reliable broadcast available and one or more participants are members of the following conferences: B1G, Big East, Big 12, ACC, SEC, A10, MVC, WCC, AAC, MW, MAC, CUSA, Colonial & Patriot.

Extended Boxscore – We provide scores and time remaining, in a timely manner, as a game progresses. We provide team- and player-level data for a game within 60 minutes of an official gamebook release. Extended Boxscore coverage is available for any game involving a Division I program, not covered via our full coverage offering.

Conference Tournaments:

• All conference tournament games available from a reliable broadcast are full play-by-play coverage.

Postseason Tournaments:

• All March Madness, NIT, and College Basketball Crown games are full play-by-play coverage. CBI and CIT games are extended_boxscore coverage.

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Coverage Note

Coverage levels are subject to change up to the scheduled game start time. Changes are usually due to resource availability or possible broadcast and technical difficulties.

Recommended Feeds Per Coverage Level

Based on the differences between our available coverage levels we recommend specific game-centric feeds for each coverage level.

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Integration Links

Integration Guide

Set up an account, learn the NCAAMB API basics, study our game workflows, tackle in-depth integration scenarios, and more by visiting our NCAAMB v8 Integration Guide!

Postman Workspace

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

NCAAMB v8 Schema

Simulations

Click here for a detailed breakdown on our available simulations.

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Data Entry Workflow

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