NCAA March Madness Live for PC and Mac

Software Reviews and Criticism

• By Jeep Trackhawk

  We’ll Designed, only a few flaws

  There are a few minor nuances; however the two most annoying ones: 1) when your watching a game and it’s at the end of the game, game is close with a few critical seconds left, for some reason the app kicks you out and shows a list of other games playing, even though the game was not over that you were watching and you can click on it to get back in, hoping you didn’t miss that final last second shot for a win…why would it kick you out before the game is over at the most exciting critical point in the entire game? 2) OK OK OK, I pick UK to go to the final four…but the app only crosses out the immediate game. Why does it not cross out all future games on the bracket as well? At a glance it looks like all my final four are still in the running…makes it difficult to look ahead at a glance when the app does cross out all future games you got wrong too for an early loss of a Team you picked to go deep…

  
  
• By wsgirard

  App is very useful but has one HUGE flaw

  I’d like to start this by saying this app is super convenient and useful during the ncaa basketball tournament. I would rate it 5 stars expect for one huge flaw. When a game finishes, the app is designed so that it gives you menu of other games to chose from to watch next. This seems convenient except it does this WHILE THE GAME YOU ARE WATCHING IS NOT FINISHED. So let’s say you’re watching the end of a very close game, there’s 20 seconds on the game clock, and the ball was just passed in. The clock starts ticking and … opp, the app kicks you out of the game and here are some other games you can watch. This is super annoying and takes away from all of the good things this app has to offer because this “feature” happens at the most important point of a game ,and you can’t turn it off or do anytime about it other than try to get back to the game you were watching as quickly as possible. Hopefully this can be changed, but until that happens, 2 star rating from me.

  
  
• By Some Other Product Owner

  A laughably poor experience

  As a product manager, the best thing about this app is how it makes me feel about myself and my prior work as a point of comparison. Both the decisions and execution driving the user experience this year scream mismanagement and a fundamental misunderstanding of industry standards and best practices. There is no PIP functionality, despite it essentially being a freebie via the operating system. Users are also unable to pause game video. I can only assume both of these decisions were made to force users to watch more preroll, which is required every time the feed is stopped as a result of the app being put in the background. The feed is in chronological order, so the oldest post is at the top. Users are never brought to the bottom of the feed, where they would find the most recent and more relevant content. The top and bottom posts in the feed are semi-obscured by some sort of vignette for... reasons? There is no multi view option, despite this being arguably the most relevant event in the world for such a feature to exist. Even the player control UI - something as simple as the design for active and inactive states on closed captions - is horribly implemented. I feel bad for the teams who worked on this and were either clearly not given the time and tools to succeed, or were in way over their heads. It’s a serviceable app, but in no way is this a product that values the user’s experience.

  
  
• By Moo$e993

  March Madness app

  In years past I swore I would never use the app again. I used it again this year because it came down to my last and only option for viewing the March madness. I still don’t understand the “your time has expired”. It seemed each device had its own time limit. After exhausting the living room tv and the bedroom tv I was left with my phone. I started watching the Baylor game early. It was before your app emblem appeared over my cbs icon. I turned off at half time. When I tried to get back on, not allowed. I was livid. One last option was to try your MM app again. I did and it worked. Yes, the app that said I timed out last time is now working again.

  
  
• By darius626

  Awesome app

  I download this app every year around March from completing however many brackets you want to watching the games live this app lets you do it all and if there’s games you miss you can go back and watch the highlights and excitement surrounding March madness you can follow your favorite team or teams as they progress through the bracket there’s even a point system with how many picks you got right and you can rank yourself among the groups your bracket is in your bracket will always be a bust after the first round but overall this app is amazing

  
  

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