Sports Game Odds gives developers a fast, dependable NCAA Basketball Odds API built for real applications, not demos. Whether you’re pulling lines for a single marquee matchup or tracking the full slate during March, our College Basketball Odds API delivers moneylines, spreads, totals, and player props for every Division I game — pre-game and live — through one clean REST endpoint.
If you’ve worked with sports data feeds before, you know the usual headaches: stale lines, confusing docs, and pricing that punishes you the moment you scale. We built this differently.
Why developers choose our College Basketball Odds API
Most teams don’t switch odds providers because they’re bored. They switch because something broke — a feed lagged during a live game, a plan got expensive, or the documentation left them guessing. Here’s what you actually get with our NCAA Basketball Odds API.
One endpoint, everything included. Odds and results ship together. You don’t buy a separate “scores” add-on to find out who covered. Request a game and you get the teams, the lines, the live score, and the final — in the same response.
Odds from 85+ sportsbooks. Shop lines across the full market, spot where books disagree, and surface the best available number for any College Basketball game. This is the raw material behind arbitrage tools, +EV screens, and odds comparison sites.
Built to scale with you. Start small during the regular season, then handle the tournament traffic spike without renegotiating your contract. Rate limits flex to match your plan.
What the NCAA Basketball Odds API covers
Every market you’d expect for College Basketball, plus the granular stuff most feeds skip:
- Moneylines — 2-way and 3-way markets
- Point spreads and handicaps — including alternate lines
- Totals — over/under points, plus alternates
- Player props — points, rebounds, assists, threes, and more
- Game props — team totals, first-half and second-half markets
- Period markets — halves and other segment-specific lines
Coverage spans the full Division I men’s slate from November tip-off through Selection Sunday and the whole tournament run.
College Basketball player props, done properly
Player prop data is where a lot of APIs fall apart. Ours doesn’t. You get hundreds of College Basketball player and game proposition markets, covering both pre-game and live betting across every major matchup. That’s enough depth to power a DFS product, a props-comparison tool, or a research pipeline studying how prop lines move as tip-off approaches. See the College Basketball player prop odds API for the full market list across every sport we cover.
Odds and results, in one response
Sports Game Odds is a genuine one-stop feed for College Basketball. Every request can return:
- Live and upcoming NCAA Basketball games
- Home and away teams
- Player statistics
- Full odds — spreads, totals, moneylines, and props
No stitching two vendors together. No reconciling mismatched game IDs at 11pm.
Quick Start: Your First College Basketball Odds API Call
Pulling NCAA Basketball odds takes a single HTTP request. Here’s the simplest way to get going:
https://api.sportsgameodds.com/v2/events?apiKey=YOUR_API_KEY&oddsAvailable=true&leagueID=NCAAB&limit=10
That returns up to 10 College Basketball games with every available market — spreads, totals, moneylines, and player props — for games where odds are currently open.
To pull a specific player prop market, use the oddIDs parameter. For example, to fetch points over/unders for College Basketball players:
https://api.sportsgameodds.com/v2/events?apiKey=YOUR_API_KEY&oddsAvailable=true&leagueID=NCAAB&oddIDs=points-PLAYER_ID-game-ou-over,points-PLAYER_ID-game-ou-under
Swap PLAYER_ID for a specific player ID to narrow it down to one player. You can pass a comma-separated list of any oddID values to grab multiple markets in a single call. The oddID format is:
{statID}-{playerID}-{periodID}-{betTypeID}-{sideID}
Common College Basketball oddID patterns:
• Points over/under: points-PLAYER_ID-game-ou-over
• Rebounds over/under: rebounds-PLAYER_ID-game-ou-over
• Assists over/under: assists-PLAYER_ID-game-ou-over
• Three-pointers made: threes_made-PLAYER_ID-game-ou-over
• First-half spread: use the 1h period ID in place of game
Tips to keep responses fast:
• Add bookmakerID=fanduel,draftkings,caesars,betmgm to limit results to the books you actually care about
• Use includeOpposingOdds=true so you only specify the over side — the under comes back automatically
• Use includeAltLines=true to get the full ladder of alternative lines, but apply it selectively since it grows the response
• Keep your oddIDs list tight — only request the markets your app is actively using
This matters more in College Basketball than almost anywhere else: with 360+ Division I teams and dozens of games on a busy weeknight, tight queries are the difference between a snappy app and a sluggish one.
Technical specifications
API architecture
| Component | Detail |
|---|---|
| Protocol | REST — simple HTTP endpoints, JSON responses |
| Real-time delivery | Optional WebSocket feeds — push updates, no constant polling |
| Authentication | Secure API key |
| Rate limits | Scalable by plan to match your traffic |
Data update speed
| Data type | Refresh |
|---|---|
| Odds | Under 60 seconds |
| Live scores | Continuously during games |
Developer resources
• Interactive docs with live examples and copy-paste code snippets
• AI-friendly (“vibe coding”) documentation for fast prototyping
• SDKs for Python, JavaScript, and more
• Dedicated technical support on paid plans
You should be pulling live College Basketball odds within minutes of getting your key.
How teams use our College Basketball Odds API
| Use case | What the data powers |
|---|---|
| Arbitrage & +EV tools | Compare NCAA Basketball odds across 85+ books to find arbs and positive-EV angles |
| Odds comparison sites | Show lines from multiple sportsbooks so users can line-shop every game |
| Pricing & trading models | Feed live market data into proprietary pricing and trading algorithms |
| Analytics & research | Study line movement, market behavior, and build predictive models |
| Betting automation | Monitor lines and execute programmatic strategies in real time |
| Sportsbook & fantasy apps | Power a sportsbook, DFS product, or betting app with reliable data |
How we compare
Choosing an odds provider usually comes down to a few practical questions. Here’s how Sports Game Odds stacks up against what you’ll find elsewhere.
| Sports Game Odds | Typical odds API | |
|---|---|---|
| Odds + results in one feed | Yes | Often sold separately |
| Sportsbooks covered | 85+ | Varies, frequently fewer |
| Live player props | Yes | Limited or unavailable |
| WebSocket push feeds | Yes | Polling-only is common |
| Odds update speed | Under 60 seconds | Often slower |
| Documentation | Interactive + AI-ready | Frequently sparse |
| Scaling | Flexible plans | Rigid tiers |
We also publish direct comparisons if you’re evaluating specific vendors: vs The Odds API, vs OpticOdds, vs SportsDataIO, vs Sportradar.
What College Basketball betting markets does the API cover?
The NCAA Basketball Odds API covers the full market for every Division I men's game: moneylines, point spreads and handicaps, totals (over/under), alternate lines, and a deep catalog of player and game props. You also get half-specific markets, so you can pull first-half and second-half lines alongside full-game odds. Everything is available both pre-game and live.
Can I pull College Basketball player props for a specific player?
Which sportsbooks are included for College Basketball?
Does the API cover the full season and the tournament?
Documentation that gets you moving
Our interactive API documentation includes:
• Every endpoint with its parameters
• Live request and response examples
• Code snippets in multiple languages
• Authentication and webhook setup guides
• Error handling references
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