The NCAA College Basketball Championships on your mobile. Popularly known as March Madness, the two tournaments (one for men's teams the other for the women) each feature the top 68 mens and 65 womens US college teams in a 3 week long single elimination tournament.

March Madness is easily the most popular college sports event in the country. I think its appeal is due to the large number of teams, increasing the likelihood of your alma mater participating, and for gamblers the lure of so many chances to win or loose in a short period of time. It also helps that each successive round cuts the pool in half with the later rounds having the memorable alliterative names like "Sweet 16", "Elite 8" and "Final 4".

Follow all the action on your phone with these March Madness mobile Webapps.

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ESPN Mens NCAA

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m.espn.go.com/ncb/ (xhtml-mp)
mobileapp.espn.go.com/ncb/mp/wml... (wml)

The mobile sports powerhouse's March Madness coverage includes "Gamegast" live play by play, news, scores, schedules, analysis, photos and team and player profiles.

ESPN also lists the Daily Line point spreads for upcoming games for the benefit of gamblers and has a Tournament Challenge fantasy game with a $10,000 prize for the winner.


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ESPN NCAA Basketball ESPN NCAA Gamecast


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ESPN Women's NCAA

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m.espn.go.com/ncw/ (xhtml-mp)
mobileapp.espn.go.com/ncw/mp/wml... (wml)

ESPN's coverage of the women's NCAA Backetball Championships generally miirors the men's coverage with live play by play, news, scores, schedules, analysis, photos and team and player profiles.


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Final Four: Women's

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www.ncaa.com/womens-final-four (xhtml-mp)

The NCCA's official guide to local events and activities in New Orleans for attendees to the 2013 NCAA Women's basketball championships. 

Via: Mobile Mammoth

 


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Final Four Womens Homepage Final Four Womens Game Coverage


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Final Four: Men's

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finalfourmobile.com/mens/ (xhtml-mp)

The NCAA's official guide to local events and activities for visitors to Atlanta for the 20123NCAA Men's basketball championships.

Via: Mobile Mammoth


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SB Nation NCAA Tournament

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mobile.sbnation.com/2012-ncaa-to... (xhtml-mp)

The upstart online sports community SB Nation, has extensive blog style coverage of March Madness with photos, videos and reader comments.


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MSN/Fox NCAA Tourney

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sports.mobile.msn.com/en-us/NCAA... (xhtml-mp)

MSN/Fox Sports has a dedicated March Madness page news, scores, brackets, standings, team profiles, photos and video highlights. There's a touch web version of the site at extreme.mobile.msn.com/sports/cbk/ which is available on most phones, not just the iPhone.


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MSN/Fox NCAA Touch

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extreme.mobile.msn.com/sports/cbk/ (xhtml-mp)

The "touch" web version of the MSN/Fox Tourney site works on most smartphones. Compared with the regular version it has more and larger photos, higher quality videos and a live score ticker.


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NBC Sports College BB

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m.nbcsports.com/college-basketball (xhtml-mp)

NBC's mobile college basketball page has extensive coverage of both the mens and women's tournaments with scores, feature articles, game recaps and some of the best sports photography on the mobile web.


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NCAA March Madness

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m.ncaa.com (xhtml-mp)

The official NCAA mobile site's March Madness coverage has reports from the top games and scores for all completed games.


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NCAA March Madness Homepage NCAA Live Game Coverage


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CBS Sports College BB

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wap.sportsline.com/s/showPage.do... (xhtml-mp)

CBS Sports' College Basketball page is pretty much devoted to March Madness while the tournament is on . Besides scores and tournament news this site features videos, schedules by bracket, standings, team profiles and statistics.


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Yahoo Tourney Pick'em

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m.yahoo.com/w/tourney/ (xhtml-mp)

Yahoo's taking a different approach to March Madness this year by featuring a Tourney Pick'em contest with a million dollar price if anyone picks a perfect bracket. The site also has also live scores, game stats, schedules, news, photos, columnist blogs and analysis.


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The Score NCAA

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m.thescore.com/ncaab/ (xhtml-mp)

The Score's auto-refreshing March Madness page shows the latest live scores for today's games. Click a game to see more details including the betting line.  A settings page lets you configure auto refresh frequency and set your time zone.


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The Score NCAA Basketball Page The Score Game Summary


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