How to watch The Basketball Tournament 2025: Schedule, TV channels, streaming, dates

The Basketball Tournament (TBT) is down to the final few teams! This winner-take-all, $1 million event started with 64 teams—many of them alumni squads from top college conferences and select at-large entries—competing from July 18 through August 3.

Find out how to watch The Basketball Tournament 2025 below.

How can I watch The Basketball Tournament 2025? What channels will it be on?

The Basketball Tournament will have a total of 26 games televised across FOX, FS1 and FS2, culminating with the championship on Sunday, Aug. 3 at 4 p.m. ET on FOX. Other TBT games will be streamed on YouTube.

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How can I stream The Basketball Tournament 2025 or watch without cable?

All TBT games on FOX networks will be available to be streamed live on the FOX Sports website and the FOX Sports App. Other TBT games will be streamed on YouTube.

For those without cable, there are live-streaming services that carry FOX, FS1 and FS2, including YouTube TV, Sling TV, Hulu + Live TV and fuboTV.

If you have an antenna in a good reception area, you can also watch TBT on your local FOX station. Check out the Federal Communications Commission TV reception maps to see which stations are available in your area.

When did The Basketball Tournament 2025 start?

The Basketball Tournament 2025 started on July 18, 2025. There were 14 games on the first day starting at 1 p.m. ET.

What is The Basketball Tournament 2025 schedule?

The tournament tips off on July 18 and ends on August 3. The full dates and times for The Basketball Tournament 2025 are available in our schedule article.

Here's a list of the games on the FOX family of networks:

Thursday, July 31 (Semifinals)

Sunday, August 3 (Championship)

Aftershocks 82, Eberlein Drive 67

TBT on FOX Scores

Monday, July 28 (Quarterfinals)

Sunday, July 27 (Quarterfinals)

Wednesday, July 23

Tuesday, July 22

Eberlein Drive 71, La Familia (Kentucky) 70
Fail Harder 68, Carmen's Crew 62

Friday, July 18

War Ready 61, X-Rayted 55
La Familia 105, Stroh’s Squad 52

Saturday, July 19

The Ville 91, Boston v Cancer 71
Fail Harder 89, Assembly Ball 76
Boeheim’s Army 97, Herkimer Originals 71
Stars of Storrs 90, Brown Ballers 78

Sunday, July 20

La Familia 80, War Ready 76
Nxt Era Elite 70, Raleigh 919 Legends 44
Takeover BC 88, Court Street Kings 85
Best Virginia 82, Herd That 75
Sideline Cancer 73, The Ville 63
Forever Coogs 82, Fire Family 69
LA Ignite 83, Team 901 79
Aftershocks 85, Team Challenge ALS 68

Monday, July 21

Stars of Storrs (UConn) 78, Green Mountain Men (Vermont) 76
D3 81, Boeheim's Army (Syracuse) 78

What is The Basketball Tournament?

TBT is an annual basketball tournament between teams that are mainly composed of former college stars, many of whom represent teams with alums from their same school. There are 64 teams split into eight regions competing in a single-elimination format for a winner-take-all prize.

The field includes alumni teams representing Indiana, Kentucky, Louisville, Maryland, Ohio State, Syracuse, UConn and more. Many of the top participants from the 2024 event are set to return this year, including the likes of Willie Cauley-Stein (Kentucky), Montrezl Harrell (Louisville), Russ Smith (Louisville) and Yogi Ferrell (Indiana).

For the eighth consecutive year, TBT will feature the Elam Ending, a format where the game clock is turned off at a predetermined time in the fourth quarter and a "target score" is set. The first team to reach that target score wins.

This year's event will also introduce TBT’s "Home Court Advantage", which will allow host teams to play games in their home arena all the way through the championship game. "Home Court Advantage" was determined by a race to 4,000 tickets sold. Louisville fans won the race, and will now have the right to host the quarterfinals, semifinals and the championship game as long as the Louisville alumni team continues to win.