# Watching the final four on the Internet

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-the-final-four-on-the-internet/491657
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [April 2, 2009, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-the-final-four-on-the-internet/491657 "2009-04-02T00:01:51Z")
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### Author: ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2009, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-the-final-four-on-the-internet/491657/1 "2009-04-02T00:01:51Z")

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So here’s the deal: my lovely wife’s birthday is on Sunday, and on Saturday, I’d love to take her out for dinner. My father is going to be in town. He’s agreed to babysit our [adorable 13-week-old daughter](http://www.flickr.com/photos/36620741@N06/) while we go out for dinner.

With one condition: he’s a ginormous UNC fan, and they’re going to be playing in the Final Four at 5 pm on Saturday. He wants to see the game. He **needs** to see the game. He WILL see the game.

And we don’t have a TV connection.

Is there anywhere on the Internet that you can watch the Final Four? We do Hulu, I know about CNN etc., but I don’t know what the licensing deals are for college basketball.

Thanks!  
Daniel

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### Author: ![JpnDude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/838e76/32.png) [@JpnDude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JpnDude)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2009, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-the-final-four-on-the-internet/491657/2 "2009-04-02T02:49:12Z")

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Try the official site which has been broadcasting all the games for free:

> **[NCAA.com – The Official Website of NCAA Championships | NCAA.com](https://www.ncaa.com/)**
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> NCAA.com features live video, live scoring, rankings, news and statistics for all college sports across all divisions in the NCAA.

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### Author: ![rexnervous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e9c0ed/32.png) [@rexnervous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rexnervous)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2009, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-the-final-four-on-the-internet/491657/3 "2009-04-02T03:09:48Z")

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> [@JpnDude](#):
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> Try the official site which has been broadcasting all the games for free:
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> [http://mmod.ncaa.com/](http://mmod.ncaa.com/)

Yep, works great. But you must have a broadband connection. Also you must download/install the Microsoft Silverlight plug-in.

Unless your uncle is fairly internet/computer savvy, I would do the setup, test it (you can watch highlights/etc), and leave very explicit instructions.

Also realize that there are different quality settings, from “really good” to “fairly poor”, and if you get a bunch of buffering lowering the quality setting should help. Again, might want to leave instructions.

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### Author: ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2009, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-the-final-four-on-the-internet/491657/4 "2009-04-02T10:20:25Z")

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Awesome, folks–thanks! This is exactly what I needed.

It looks like you only need Silverlight to watch it in high-quality, which my 768 kps connection won’t support anyway I’m sure.

Thanks again!