Arguably the hottest ticket town features North Carolina facing Arkansas in the NCAA Baseball Tournament Super Regionals, beginning on Saturday, June 11.
Game 1 (Saturday, 11 a.m. ET) will be televised on ESPN, while Game 2 (Sunday, 1 p.m. ET) and Game 3 (if necessary) will be on either ESPN, ESPN2 or ESPNU. But if you don’t have cable, here are some different ways you can watch a live stream of every game of the UNC vs Arkansas super regional online for free:
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DirecTV Stream
DirecTV Stream has four different channel packages: “Entertainment,” “Choice,” “Ultimate” and “Premier.” ESPN and ESPN2 are in every one, while ESPNU is included in “Choice” and above, but you can pick any package and any add-on you want with your free five-day trial:
Once signed up for DirecTV Stream, you can watch UNC vs Arkansas live on the DirecTV Stream app, which is available on your Roku, Roku TV, Amazon Fire TV or Fire Stick, Apple TV, Chromecast, Samsung TV, any device with Android TV (such as a Sony TV or Nvidia Shield), iPhone, Android phone, iPad or Android tablet. Or you can watch on your computer via the DirecTV Stream website.
You can also watch live via ESPN.com or the ESPN app. You’ll need to sign in to a cable provider to watch this way, but if you don’t have that, you can use your DirecTV Stream credentials (may still be listed as AT&T on the list of cable providers) to log in and watch.
FuboTV
You can watch a live stream of ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU and 100-plus other live TV channels on FuboTV. You’ll need the Sports Plus add-on for ESPNU, but you can include the main channel package and any add-ons with your free seven-day trial:
Once signed up for FuboTV, you can watch UNC vs Arkansas live on the FuboTV app, which is available on your Roku, Roku TV, Amazon Fire TV or Fire Stick, Apple TV, Chromecast, Xbox One or Series X/S, Samsung TV, LG TV, any device with Android TV (such as a Sony TV or Nvidia Shield), iPhone, Android phone, iPad or Android tablet. Or you can watch on your computer via the FuboTV website.
You can also watch live via ESPN.com or the ESPN app. You’ll need to sign in to a cable provider to watch this way, but if you don’t have that, you can use your Fubo credentials to log in and watch.
Sling TV
You can watch a live stream of ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU and 40-plus other live TV channels via Sling TV’s “Sling Orange + Sports Extra” bundle. This option doesn’t include a free trial, but it’s the cheapest long-term streaming service with all the channels needed for the super regionals and the college world series, and you can get $10 off your first month:
Once signed up for Sling TV, you can watch UNC vs Arkansas live on the Sling TV app, which is available on your Roku, Roku TV, Amazon Fire TV or Fire Stick, Apple TV, Chromecast, Xbox One or Series X/S, Samsung TV, LG TV, any device with Android TV (such as a Sony TV or Nvidia Shield), airTV Mini, Oculus, Portal, iPhone, Android phone, iPad or Android tablet. Or you can watch on your computer via the Sling TV website.
You can also watch live via ESPN.com or the ESPN app. You’ll need to sign in to a cable provider to watch this way, but if you don’t have that, you can use your Sling credentials to log in and watch.
Vidgo
You can watch a live stream of ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU and 90+ other TV channels on Vidgo. This option doesn’t include a free trial:
Once signed up for Vidgo, you can watch UNC vs Arkansas live on the Vidgo app, which is available on your Roku, Roku TV, Amazon Fire TV, or Firestick, Apple TV, Chromecast, any device with Android TV (such as a Sony TV or Nvidia Shield), iPhone, Android phone, iPad, or Android tablet. Or you can watch on your computer via the Vidgo website.
You can also watch live via ESPN.com or the ESPN app. You’ll need to sign in to a cable provider to watch this way, but if you don’t have that, you can use your Vidgo credentials to log in and watch.
UNC vs Arkansas Baseball Preview
The North Carolina-Arkansas matchup created an uproar this week on social media over UNC not offering tickets to the general public, which Sports Illustrate’s All Hogs highlighted.
Attention can turn to play on the field instead, starting first game on Saturday in a best-of-three game series for a spot in College World Series. Arkansas beat Oklahoma State in two of three games to reach the Super Regionals. North Carolina fell to VCU in regional play but bounced back to win twice and advance.
UNC’s biggest loss arguably came in the dugout during the regionals when head coach Scott Forbes got ejected after arguing a call in the 4-3 loss to VCU on June 4. Forbes served a two-game suspension during the regionals because of the incident.
“That was a bad feeling, and I was just mad at myself because, really, you have to control your own emotions,” Forbes said via the Times-News’ Adam Smith. “I definitely didn’t agree with what happened, but I had to live with it.”
“And I did have to think, ‘OK, this is going to be a learning experience, and I sure hope I don’t have to watch us lose at home.’ But I had a really great feeling after we found a way to beat Georgia. I was like, ‘OK, that’s the big one. This team, as hot as we’ve been offensively, I think we can score a lot of runs and get to Monday,'” Forbes added.
Now, UNC will look to score runs against an Arkansas pitching staff that has a 4.14 ERA. The Tar Heels also need to slow down the Razorbacks’ bats, which scored 44 runs in four games during regionals.
“Well we’ve tried to do the best we can to find out as much as we can about North Carolina and just what I’m getting out of it is first off, they’re hot,” Arkansas head coach Dave Van Horn said via SiriusXM Radio. “You know they get off to a little bit of a slow start in league play and when their backs were pinned against the wall probably a month ago, they fought their way out of it.”
UNC averages .288 as a team at the plate and scores 6.9 runs per game. The Tar Heels pitching staff has a 4.16 ERA.
“We know that it’s gonna be a super challenge for us,” Van Horn added via SiriusXM. “We’re an underdog. I think we’re OK with that right now. And we’re gonna have to play our best week of baseball if we’re gonna win this series.”
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