NCAA Basketball APIs - Forfeit Status
November 12th, 2025
We've updated the behavior of forfeited games in all versions of our NCAA Basketball APIs.
Forfeit games now feature a status of forfeited and the winning team indicated with forfeit_winner="true". See our Forfeit workflow for more info.
☑️ Sample Requests:
- Game Boxscore (Women's) -
https://api.sportradar.com/ncaawb/trial/v8/en/games/ 2af28de9-6fdf-4d01-ba28-5fdeb2e1d2ae/boxscore.json
🔢 Versions
- NCAA Men's Basketball API v8, NCAAMB v7, NCAAMB v4
- NCAA Women's Basketball API v8, NCAAWB v7, NCAAWB v3
🔁 Endpoints Affected
- Forfeit Winner Flag: Game Boxscore, Game Play-by-Play, Game Summary, Push Events, Push Statistics
- Game Status: Daily Schedule, Game Boxscore, Game Play-by-Play, Game Summary, Schedule, Tournament Schedule, Push Events, Push Statistics
⚙️ Return Sample
{
"id": "2af28de9-6fdf-4d01-ba28-5fdeb2e1d2ae",
"status": "forfeited",
"coverage": "full",
"scheduled": "2025-01-12T22:00:00+00:00",
"conference_game": true,
"track_on_court": false,
"entry_mode": "LDE",
"time_zones": {
"venue": "US/Pacific",
"home": "US/Pacific",
"away": "US/Central"
},
"season": {
"id": "a263b759-0702-45fb-803a-b1c0651da16f",
"year": 2024,
"type": "REG",
"name": "Regular Season"
},
"home": {
"name": "Bruins",
"alias": "UCLA",
"market": "UCLA",
"id": "a983fe02-db1e-4137-9cfe-34d9eaca890c",
"forfeit_winner": true,
"points": 0,
"rank": 1,
"remaining_timeouts": 4,
"scoring": []
},
"away": {
"name": "Wildcats",
"alias": "NW",
"market": "Northwestern",
"id": "fc923213-ae54-4bb9-8ef4-f16d7a16dfe0",
"forfeit_winner": false,
"points": 0,
"rank": 0,
"remaining_timeouts": 4,
"scoring": []
}
}<game xmlns="http://feed.elasticstats.com/schema/basketball/game-v8.0.xsd" id="2af28de9-6fdf-4d01-ba28-5fdeb2e1d2ae" status="forfeited" coverage="full" scheduled="2025-01-12T22:00:00+00:00" conference_game="true" track_on_court="false" entry_mode="LDE" home_team="a983fe02-db1e-4137-9cfe-34d9eaca890c" away_team="fc923213-ae54-4bb9-8ef4-f16d7a16dfe0">
<season id="a263b759-0702-45fb-803a-b1c0651da16f" year="2024" type="REG" name="Regular Season"/>
<time_zones venue="US/Pacific" home="US/Pacific" away="US/Central"/>
<team name="Bruins" alias="UCLA" market="UCLA" id="a983fe02-db1e-4137-9cfe-34d9eaca890c" forfeit_winner="true" points="0" rank="1" remaining_timeouts="4" home="true">
<scoring>
</scoring>
<leaders>
</leaders>
</team>
<team name="Wildcats" alias="NW" market="Northwestern" id="fc923213-ae54-4bb9-8ef4-f16d7a16dfe0" forfeit_winner="false" points="0" rank="0" remaining_timeouts="4">
<scoring>
</scoring>
<leaders>
</leaders>
</team>
</game>