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NCAA Scores on Your Cell Phone

March 5th, 2007 MobileFreak

March Madness is upon us, and if you haven’t used any of the mobile score alert services yet, now is a great time to start.


We posted a recent article on getting Super Bowl Scores on your cell phone, and many of the services mentioned there also provide NCAA basketball score alerts.

Update: We Found a Free Option for Sports Alerts!

While the CSTV service described below does an excellent job, it does cost money. And who wants to pay?

So we dug deeper and found a free, yet very reliable, mobile sports alert service from 4INFO. They have a simple demo of their service here. As you’ll see on their site when signing up, they have an interesting mobile alert service for the NCAA tournament this year. You can select to receive updates from your favorite team, or select the “Tournament Pass” option.

Single Team:

Select your conference, then your team, and elect to receive scores at different game intervals. It also includes an Update Trigger, which provides an update in the last few minutes of the game that it considers to be a potential upset.

Tournament Pass:

This option includes an upset alert, as well as an updated final score at the end of each remaining NCAA game. A great way to follow your standings in your tournament pool.

Again, the only cost comes from your carrier’s text messaging fees. So test it out on the remaining NCAA tournament games and let us know how it stacks up.

(OK, now back to the paid option that we originally wrote about…)

Best Premium (Paid) Option for NCAA Mobile Alerts

However, the one service that offers the most cell phone alerts for all college sports is CSTV. I started using CSTV to follow my alma mater and a few other schools in 2004, and I consistently received the halftime and final scores of those games via a text message within about 10 minutes. This was using a Sprint cell phone plan on an LG phone.

CSTV’s mobile score alert service supports the following carriers: Alltel, Boost, Cingular, Dobson, Nextel, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon Wireless, and US Cellular. Of course, confirm that your cell phone plan includes text messaging (SMS).

The service costs $3.99 per month, and provides about 10 messages per month,
depending on the settings you set.

Try it out for March to follow the 2007 NCAA Basketball tournament this year, then let us know what you think! Did you get the NCAA scores on time? Would you use it again?

Entry Filed under: Cingular/AT&T, Nextel, SMS, Sports, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon

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