The NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship has named Teamworks, a communications and collaboration provider for athletic organizations, as its Collaboration Software Provider for this year’s tournament. Tournament staff, the 68 participating teams, and all representatives and game officials will use Teamworks’ services this year to streamline their communications.
Ron English, the director of NCAA March Madness, said, “The Men’s Basketball Championship has so many moving parts from 68 participating teams to 14 host sites across the country. We are excited that Teamworks allows us to communicate and organize those moving parts cohesively while increasing our internal efficiency.”
There are various services from Teamworks that will help to make this year’s tournament more internally streamlined. They will handle all of the tournament information and make it easy for teams and staff to share it with each other; there will be a mobile app that allows participants to instantaneously access information; and teams will be able to electronically fill out forms—this is obviously more convenient, but it also means that teams will not have to repeatedly do paperwork as they advance through the contest.
While this is the first year that Teamworks is facilitating communications for the NCAA Division I Basketball tournament, it is far from the first sports entity that Teamworks has worked with. Teamworks was the Official Team Collaboration Software Provider for the first NCAA Football playoff, it provides services for teams from 80 NCAA Division I schools, and it also works with larger organizations like adidas Team Sales and the Big Ten Conference.
Teamworks’ Founder and President, Zach Maurides, said in a press release, “As a proud provider of communication software to athletic departments throughout the nation, we look forward to extending our platform to additional postseason tournaments and championships. March is an exciting, but busy, time for college basketball, and we are thrilled to give the NCAA and participating teams the confidence to compete without distraction.”