5 iPhone Apps to make 2011 March Madness Great

Mar 14, 2011

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It’s the Monday after Selection Sunday and March Madness is at its peak! With games starting in like 10 minutes, and every game being broadcast between 4 television stations, the injection of college basketball is as much or as little as you or your doctor prescribes. However, we live in a moving, mobile world, and you’re not guaranteed to always be in front of a television or a computer, no matter how many sick days you have to call in to work with. Not to worry though, if you have an iPhone, you’re options continue to grow! Just check out these 5 apps below to get the most you can out of the next few weeks of tournament action!

NCAA March Madness on Demand – FREE

The NCAA might not always make decisions people agree with, but no one can deny their greatness in releasing this app for the iPhone and iPad – NCAA March Madness on Demand.
The app is a free app and will help keep you as up to date as possible with streaming of every 2011 Division 1 Men’s Basketball Tournament, right to your mobile device. On top of that, you also gain access to their Bracket Challenge, in-game highlights, line scores and leaderboards.
On top of all that, if you’re a social media savant, you also have the features you crave, allowing you to comment on the games from within the app in real time to Facebook and Twitter. If you think I’m done, not yet! On top of all that, you can also receive push notifications on your favorite teams, if possible upsets are going on, or if any games have gone into overtime.
Even if you watch every game, this app could still give you some highlights you could miss otherwise.

PocketBracket – $0.99

PocketBracket is a March Madness dedicated bracket application, allowing you to create brackets you can share and brag about on the PocketBracket network, join or create pools, and be able to share and brag about your brackets success on Twitter and Facebook.
The app allows you to create more then one bracket, you can join or create and organize pools (Join the pool Geekasms if you want to see how you match up with me!), and of course, you get all the scores as they occur.
This app is terrific, especially with the added Game Talk to allow you to have in-app convos for each game, where you can either cheer on your favorite team, or voice how you hate Duke. The touch screen is a great way for setting up brackets, so jump on there and get in with the fun, and prepare for my bracket to crush yours!

Bracket Buster – $0.99

Are you the type that fills out 3-4 brackets during tournament time? Bracket Buster can give you your 5th bracket with easy. The app generates randomized picks based on actual historical tournament results, and consistently outperforms just picking favorites. Supports three popular pool scoring systems: Seed x Round, Seed + Round, and Fixed points per round. The app allows the user to set his/her risk level where they can choose to play with safe with a low risk, where favorites are typically fixed or play with a high risk, where they could bomb awful or rule the tournament pool! Once you run the app, you can scroll through each round and fill out your bracket as it goes, or have the full bracket emailed to you for use later.

Sports Illustrated Front Row – FREE

The app is brand new, just released today, but sounds like its worth the time to check out. The app is described as a unique editorial perspective on the world’s championship sporting events—right to your iPhone—in photographs, text and up to the minute scores. Sports Illustrated’s award-winning photographers will capture the action at March Madness, from the first tip off to the Final Four. And after the NCAA Basketball Champion is anointed, Front Row will hit the road to cover the biggest tournaments on the planet. Get notified of upcoming sporting events and choose only the photo sets you want, streamed to your iPhone.
After the NCAA Tournament, this app will also cover the NHL Playoff, Masters Golf Tournament , NBA Championship Game, Wimbledon, MLB World Series. BCS College Football Playoffs, NFL Super Bowl, and the 2012 Olympics.

Ultimate College Hoops Trivia – $0.99

So, ultimately we have to deal with the lull of a few days between the rounds, so how do you keep the March Madness love going strong until the next tipoff? Why not entertain yourself with Ultimate College Hoops Trivia? This app is loaded it with questions all about men’s college basketball challenging you to test your skills on school nicknames, coaches, records and the greatest spectacle in sports – March Madness! With 250 high quality questions developed by fellow basketball junkies, it will keep you entertained so you can get your fix.