Michigan State vs. Bryant FREE STREAM: Watch March Madness online today | Round 1 time, TV channel

The No. 2 Michigan State Spartans face No. 15 Bryant in the March Madness Round of 64 game. The matchup takes place Friday, March 21 at the Rocket Arena in Cleveland, Ohio.

HOW TO WATCH: Fans can watch the game on DirecTV Stream (free trial).

Here’s what you need to know:

What: March Madness, Round of 64

Who: No. 2 Michigan State Spartans vs. No. 15 Bryant Bulldogs

When: Friday, March 21, 2025

Time: 10 p.m. ET

Where: Rocket Arena, Cleveland, Ohio | Tickets

TV: TBS

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March Madness Schedule for Friday, March 21

(9) Baylor vs. (8) Mississippi State | 12:15 p.m. ET | CBS (STREAM)

(15) Robert Morris vs. (2) Alabama | 12:40 p.m. ET | TruTV (STREAM)

(14) Lipscomb vs. (3) Iowa State | 1:30 p.m. ET | TNT (STREAM)

(12) Colorado State vs. (5) Memphis | 2 p.m. ET | TBS (STREAM)

(16) Mount St. Mary’s/American vs. (1) Duke | 2:50 p.m. ET | CBS (STREAM)

(10) Vanderbilt vs. (7) Saint Mary’s | 3:15 p.m. ET | truTV (STREAM)

(11) North Carolina/SDSU vs. (6) Ole Miss | 4:05 p.m. ET | TNT (STREAM)

(13) Grand Canyon vs. (4) Maryland | 4:35 p.m. ET | TNT (STREAM)

(16) Norfolk State vs. (1) Florida | 6:50 p.m. ET | TNT (STREAM)

(14) Troy vs. (3) Kentucky | 7:10 p.m. ET | CBS (STREAM)

(10) New Mexico vs. (7) Marquette | 7:25 p.m. ET | TBS (STREAM)

(13) Akron vs. (4) Arizona | 7:35 p.m. ET | TruTV (STREAM)

(9) Oklahoma vs. (8) UConn | 9:25 p.m. ET | TNT (STREAM)

(11) Xavier/Texas vs. (6) Illinois | 9:45 p.m. ET | CBS (STREAM)

(15) Bryant vs. (2) Michigan State | 10 p.m. ET | TBS (STREAM)

(12) Liberty vs. (5) Oregon | 10:10 p.m. ET | TruTV (STREAM)

Here’s a recent AP March Madness story:

WASHINGTON (AP) — In East Lansing, Michigan, college sports often dominate conversations — especially in March, when everyone seems to be filling out their NCAA brackets.

Jessica Caruss would know; she has lived in the area for most of her life. She loves sports, and she’s a Michigan State fan, but she won’t be drawing up a March Madness bracket that shows her team (or any team) winning it all.

“Oh, I’m aware. I just don’t do brackets or anything,” Caruss said. “I don’t gamble; I don’t see the appeal of it. For me it’s not a rush. It’s stressful.”

She’s far from alone in bypassing the brackets. As the annual tournament kicks off, some Americans skip the madness — or at least they don’t try to predict who will win. A new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research shows that about 7 in 10 U.S. adults say they “never” fill out a bracket for the NCAA men’s or women’s basketball tournament.

This group leans more female: About 6 in 10 bracket avoiders are women.

“I’m probably not going to watch. I have not really been into it in quite some time,” Caruss said. “I’ve never understood the March madness.”

Other bracket avoiders plan to watch tournament games but won’t predict winners. Chris Lara lives in Belvidere, Illinois, but supports UCLA because of his California roots. Both the UCLA women’s and men’s basketball teams will be competing in the NCAA tournament, and he plans to cheer them on. But he doesn’t feel confident in his ability to determine the winners for every match-up in a bracket.

“I don’t have the knowledge to pick the teams correctly or to know the ones that are the best,” Lara said. “I would just go with my heart and pick teams. ... And then it wouldn’t work out well.”

For some people, the madness is barely registering.

Justin Campbell, a 29-year-old from Brookhaven, Mississippi, said he’s never followed sports closely. He’s not tracking the NCAA tournament, let alone making a bracket. He might tune into a game if it’s on at a restaurant he’s at, but basketball takes a back seat to football in his corner of southern Mississippi.

“I’m sure if I was in a different town where it was all we talked about, it might be different,” Campbell said. “But where I am, football is more the big thing.”

Even among the sliver of U.S. adults who fill out a men’s or women’s bracket at least “some years,” about two-thirds of that group say the fact that other people were doing it was a “major” or “minor” reason for their participation.

In the suburbs of Seattle, Laura Edain said she’s not interested in March Madness, either, and does not plan to seek out any games. Edain, 55, used to work in an office that may have had more discussion of March Madness and brackets as it happened — or she would overhear references to Gonzaga University’s many tournament runs — but the bracket predictions have never appealed to her.

“I don’t think I would have participated, even then,” Edain said. “And now, I just am not in any kind of circle that really talks about it at all.”