NCAA Basketball APIs – Game-Level Tournament Seed

We've added tournament seed information at the game level for our NCAA Men's and Women's Basketball APIs.

Going forward, locate each team's tournament seed in the relevant Game endpoint (Boxscore, Play-by-Play, Summary).

<team name="Hawkeyes" alias="IOWA" market="Iowa" id="c10544de-e3bd-4776-ba2e-83df8c017fd1" points="59" rank="0" seed="9" remaining_timeouts="1">

⭐ Benefit

For NCAA Tournament games, easily capture and display each team's tournament seed from the game feed — without the need to sync to the Schedule feed(s).

📋 Recommended Actions

Read each team's seed from the Game feeds (Boxscore, Play-by-Play, Summary) to display tournament seeding directly, without cross-referencing the Series or Schedule feeds.
Note the location differs by feed and format: in some feeds seed sits on the team nodes (e.g. Men's Game Summary), in others on the home/away objects (e.g. Women's Play-by-Play). Map per feed rather than assuming one path.
Handle non-tournament cases: confirm what seed returns for teams or games outside the tournament (e.g. 0 or absent) and guard your display so unseeded teams don't render as "seed 0."

☑️ Sample Requests:

curl --request GET \
     --url https://api.sportradar.com/ncaamb/trial/v8/en/games/af161a87-bd65-4bb8-94ae-29e20077d352/summary.json \
     --header 'accept: application/json' \
     --header 'x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY'

curl --request GET \
     --url https://api.sportradar.com/ncaawb/trial/v8/en/games/b9894f05-94ad-4357-ab02-901d4360804d/pbp.json \
     --header 'accept: application/json' \
     --header 'x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY'

🔢 Products

Sport	Product	Version(s)
Basketball	NCAA Men's Basketball	v8, v7, v4
Basketball	NCAA Women's Basketball API	v8, v7, v3

🔁 Endpoints Affected

Game Boxscore
Game Play-by-Play
Game Summary

⚙️ Return Samples

<game xmlns="http://feed.elasticstats.com/schema/basketball/game-v8.0.xsd" id="af161a87-bd65-4bb8-94ae-29e20077d352" title="South Regional - Elite Eight - Game 1" status="closed" coverage="full" neutral_site="true" scheduled="2026-03-28T22:09:00+00:00" conference_game="false" attendance="17010" lead_changes="13" times_tied="7" clock="00:00" half="2" track_on_court="true" entry_mode="LDE" clock_decimal="00:00" home_team="150148c2-ca8f-414f-8f41-d94a55d4a122" away_team="c10544de-e3bd-4776-ba2e-83df8c017fd1">
    <broadcasts>
        <broadcast type="TV" locale="National" network="TBS" channel="247"/>
        <broadcast type="TV" locale="National" network="truTV" channel="246"/>
        <broadcast type="Internet" locale="National" network="HBO Max"/>
    </broadcasts>
    <season id="fd1c5f6a-54fc-400a-a7f6-c7b38a6091fe" year="2025" type="PST" name="Post-season Tournaments"/>
    <time_zones venue="US/Central" home="US/Central" away="US/Central"/>
    <venue id="5b239206-57ce-50aa-baaa-627f3349dfdc" name="Toyota Center" capacity="18500" address="1510 Polk Street" city="Houston" state="TX" zip="77002" country="USA">
        <location lat="29.750751" lng="-95.362049"/>
    </venue>
    <team name="Fighting Illini" alias="ILL" market="Illinois" id="150148c2-ca8f-414f-8f41-d94a55d4a122" points="71" rank="13" seed="3" remaining_timeouts="2" home="true">
    <!-- ...additional game data omitted... -->
    </team>
</game>

{
    "id": "b9894f05-94ad-4357-ab02-901d4360804d",
    "title": "Fort Worth 1 - Sweet 16 - Game 1",
    "status": "closed",
    "coverage": "full",
    "neutral_site": true,
    "scheduled": "2026-03-27T21:15:00+00:00",
    "conference_game": false,
    "attendance": 9375,
    "lead_changes": 6,
    "times_tied": 0,
    "clock": "00:00",
    "quarter": 4,
    "track_on_court": false,
    "entry_mode": "LDE",
    "clock_decimal": "00:00",
    "possession_arrow": "6e196896-2649-411e-98fa-4f34a01b3ba9",
    "broadcasts": [
        {
            "type": "TV",
            "locale": "National",
            "network": "ESPN",
            "channel": "206"
        }
    ],
    "time_zones": {
        "venue": "US/Central",
        "home": "US/Eastern",
        "away": "US/Eastern"
    },
    "season": {
        "id": "6d9ae91c-9cdd-44c6-b2b9-ff2a005678df",
        "year": 2025,
        "type": "PST",
        "name": "Post-season Tournaments"
    },
    "home": {
        "name": "Huskies",
        "alias": "CONN",
        "market": "UConn",
        "id": "6e0c5edc-4a6d-416b-9e10-7cccf13e971f",
        "points": 63,
        "rank": 1,
        "seed": 1,
        "remaining_timeouts": 2
    },
    "away": {
        "name": "Tar Heels",
        "alias": "UNC",
        "market": "North Carolina",
        "id": "6e196896-2649-411e-98fa-4f34a01b3ba9",
        "points": 42,
        "rank": 15,
        "seed": 4,
        "remaining_timeouts": 1
    }
    // ...additional game data omitted...
}