As we move deeper and deeper into the 21st century, we get closer and closer to the day when we will be able to watch every single college basketball game either on television, a computer or a mobile device. Each season more and more live webstreaming sites become available for college basketball games, and the existing sites continue to upgrade. The vast majority of these sites are free, though some holdouts still charge fees to watch their content. Below is a conference-by-conference breakdown of the video streaming available this year. Please note that this does not include, unless otherwise noted, streaming of games that are also on TV (such as WatchESPN, FoxSportsGo, BTN2Go or the like). Also note that when the phrase “all games” is used, it means all non-televised home games. Some televised home games may end up being streamed as well, but that seems to be on a case by case basis.
America East: All home games other than Vermont’s are streamed for free at the conference website. Vermont home games are streamed for free at the school’s own website (due to an existing contract issue when the America East began their free streaming last year).
American: All non-televised games are on espn3.
ACC: All non-televised games are on espn3.
Atlantic Sun: Almost every home game is available through espn3 which has taken over all webstreaming for the conference.
Atlantic Ten: The A10 offers webstreaming of the vast majority of games on its website. About half of the games are free while the other half require a premium subscription. I have yet to be able to figure out any rhyme or reason behind which games are free and which are not.
Big East: All games are televised.
Big Sky: All games are streamed through the conference website.
Big South: All games are streamed through the conference website.
Big Ten: A few non-televised games are on espn3. The rest are available through the subscription BTNPlus package for streaming.
Big 12: Almost every game is televised. A few may still be available only through the individual team’s website for a charge.
Big West: All games are streamed for free through the conference website.
Colonial: A new streaming service has started this year with the vast majority of games streamed for free through the website. A few schools my not be hooked into the site yet, most notable Delaware and UNC-Wilmington. Their games may require you to go through the school website (also free).
Conference USA: All games are streamed for a subscription package fee only.
Horizon: As with the A-Sun, espn3 now runs the streaming which covers all conference home games.
Ivy League: All games are streamed, but there is a subscription package that must be bought.
MAAC: It appears that the MAAC has finally gotten its streaming for conference games running, but there is a subscription fee for the games.
MAC: espn3 now owns the rights here as well. A few schools are still getting their production facilities up to ESPN standards and may not have some early season games shown, but by the end of the season every game should be available.
MEAC: No conference package exists. Some individual schools have Pay packages available.
MVC: No conference package exists. Most of the schools have a Pay package available.
Mountain West: All games are available through the conference website for free.
Northeast: All games are available through the conference website for free.
Ohio Valley: All games are available through the conference website for free.
Pac 12: All games are televised (those games shown regionally by the Pac 12 Network are available outside their region via the Pac 12 Network streaming service).
Patriot: All games are available through the conference website for free.
SEC: All games are available through SEC Network+, which is part of WatchESPN. These games are only available if your cable operator has the SEC Network.
Southern: A new addition this year, all games are available through the conference website for free.
Southland: No conference service exists, though individual schools may have their own packages. Lamar, Houston Baptist, Stephen F Austin and Incarnate Word’s packages are all free.
SWAC: The conference has a “SWAC Digital Network” which is scheduled to show 4 games all season. A couple of the schools have their own packages, all requiring fees.
Summit: No conference packages exists but individual schools have pay packages available. IUPUI has a free package.
Sun Belt: No conference package exists. Most of the schools have their own packages but they all require fees to be paid.
West Coast: Almost every game is available. All conference and most non-conference games are on thew.tv website. Individual schools carry most remaining non-conference games for free on their own websites. BYU games may also appear on the BYU TV network, which is streamed for free as well.
WAC: The WAC just this week started a brand new WAC Digital Network that will have the majority of games for free. It is just starting up and it may be a few weeks until games make it on there. Until then, some teams are running their own streaming, notably Grand Canyon and Texas-Pan American.
NJIT: The lone independent does stream all of its home games, but you will have to pay for the subscription. Hey, with no conference they need the money!!!