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The No. 3 LSU Tigers will play the No. 14 Yale Bulldogs at VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena in Jacksonville, Florida, in the first round of the NCAA Tournament on Thursday.
The game is scheduled to start at 12:40 p.m. ET and will be televised on TruTV. But if you don’t have cable, you can sign up for one of the following cable-free, live-TV streaming services that allow you to watch TruTV on your computer, phone or streaming device:
FuboTV
FuboTV
TruTV is one of 85-plus live TV channels included in the main FuboTV bundle, which is largely tailored towards sports. Also included are TNT, TBS and CBS (live in select markets), allowing you to watch every NCAA tournament game.
You can start a free 7-day trial of FuboTV right here, and you can then watch a live stream of the game on your computer via the FuboTV website, or on your phone (Android and iPhone supported), tablet, Roku, Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, Chromecast or other supported device via the FuboTV app.
If you can’t watch live, FuboTV comes with 30 hours of cloud DVR space, as well as a 72-hour look-back feature, which allows you to watch the game (and other programs) on-demand within three days of its conclusion, even if you don’t record it.
PlayStation Vue
PlayStation Vue
PS Vue–which doesn’t require an actual PlayStation console to sign up or watch–offers four different live-TV channel packages: All four include TruTV. Also included are TNT, TBS and CBS (live in select markets), allowing you to watch every March Madness game.
You can start a free 5-day trial of PS Vue right here, and you can then watch a live stream of the game on your computer via the PS Vue website, or on your phone (Android and iPhone supported), tablet, Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV, Chromecast, PlayStation (3 or 4), or other supported device via the PS Vue app.
If you can’t watch live, PS Vue comes with cloud DVR.
Hulu With Live TV
Hulu
In addition to a Netflix-like on-demand streaming library, Hulu also offers a bundle of 60-plus live TV channels, including TruTV. Also included are TNT, TBS and CBS (live in select markets), meaning you can watch every other NCAA tournament game.
You can sign up for “Hulu with Live TV” right here, and you can then watch a live stream of the game on your computer via the Hulu website, or on your phone (Android and iPhone supported), tablet, Roku, Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, Chromecast, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, Echo Show, or other streaming device via the Hulu app.
If you can’t watch live, Hulu With Live TV comes with 50 hours of cloud DVR space, as well as the option to upgrade to “Enhanced Cloud DVR,” which gives you 200 hours of space and the ability to fast-forward through commercials.
Yale vs LSU Preview
LSU won the SEC regular season title with a 16-2 mark, but they were ousted by the Florida Gators 76-73 in the tournament quarterfinals.
It was the team’s second game after the suspension of head coach Will Wade. He was suspended a day after reports alleged he’d been caught discussing compensation for a recruit in an FBI wiretap.
Sophomore guard Tremont Waters said the coach’s suspension hasn’t distracted the team.
“At the end of the day, people are going to talk regardless,” Waters said, according to the Associated Press. “We heard stuff about this season. We heard stuff today. I personally wasn’t listening for it. I don’t care. We just got to move forward and keep pushing.”
The sophomore averages three steals per game, the second-highest mark in Division I. His 15.1 points and 5.9 assists per contest lead the team.
Yale shared the Ivy League regular season title with Harvard, going 10-4. The Bulldogs avenged a pair of regular losses to the Crimson by besting them 97-85 in the tournament championship, earning the school’s first bid to the NCAA Tournament since they made the second round in 2016.
“There’s just so much going through my mind and my body after what we accomplished,” Yale head coach James Jones said, according to the Yale Daily News. “Before the game, I took a copy from our first practice of this year — September 30th, 8:30 in the morning … Everybody was at the practice early ready to go, bright eyed and bushy-tailed. We started to build it from that point. To get to where we are right now, to realize your goals and what you set out to do, it’s really special. There’s 353 Division I basketball teams and they all want to be in the position that we’re in. It’s just an unbelievable feeling.”
Junior guard Miye Oni averages 17.6 points, 3.5 assists, and two 3-pointers per contest, all team highs. The conference player of the year also grabs 6.3 rebounds and blocks 1.3 shots per game, second on the squad in both categories.
“I tip my hat to Miye because he did something this year that was really quite incredible,” Jones said, per the Yale Daily News. “He was, in almost each major statistical category, in the top ten. We hadn’t seen that in this league since Jeremy Lin did it quite a few years back. He was somebody that did a little bit of everything for us … I think that he looks around at the teammates he has, and he has more confidence in them and our ability to do it. He doesn’t feel like he has to do it on his own.”