{"id":187529,"date":"2026-04-06T20:02:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T20:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/187529\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T20:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T20:02:07","slug":"heres-where-uconn-michigan-fans-in-new-york-city-can-watch-tonights-ncaa-championship-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/187529\/","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s where UConn, Michigan fans in New York City can watch tonight&#8217;s NCAA championship game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With UConn and Michigan playing for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/final-four-ncaa-mens-basketball-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NCAA Men&#8217;s Basketball championship<\/a> tonight in Indianapolis, there are a few places in New York City where fans can cheer on their schools.<\/p>\n<p>A handful of bars in Midtown Manhattan and across the area are ready to host fans eager to watch the game with fellow alumni.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>UConn bars in NYC area<\/p>\n<p>Connecticut fans can head to Legends Sports Bar on West 33rd Street to watch the game with their fellow Huskies. The bar hosted a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/video\/uconn-vs-illinois-march-madness-watch-party-held-in-nyc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Final Four watch party<\/a> for the game against Illinois, and posted\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/100064629883885\/videos\/pcb.1362949692536014\/1571296467271218\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">a video of UConn fans celebrating<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Bobby V&#8217;s in Downtown Stamford, Connecticut, expects to be packed. The sports bar sits a short walk from the UConn Stamford campus and says it will have the game on 200 TVs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Gonna be absolutely crazy. The phone are ringing off the hook. Everyone&#8217;s excited. We hope UConn wins,&#8221; Andrew Mallette said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Michigan bars in NYC<\/p>\n<p>Michigan Wolverines fans looking for a spot to watch the game in New York City can head to:<\/p>\n<p>Blue Haven East on Third AvenueBrickyard Craft Kitchen &amp; Bar on Park PlaceCentral Park Tavern on West 57th StreetShaffer&#8217;s on Eighth Avenue<\/p>\n<p>Central Park Tavern said it&#8217;s expecting a packed house, &#8220;with fans bringing that Ann Arbor energy into the city.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The matchup<\/p>\n<p>UConn has won 18 national championships since 1995, including men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s basketball. Since most current UConn students are in their late teens to early 20s, that means the Huskies have dominated college basketball for the entirety of their lives.<\/p>\n<p>This is the Huskies&#8217; third appearance in the NCAA championship game in the last four years under head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/uconn-coach-dan-hurley-duke-march-madness-final-four\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dan Hurley<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Wolverines, under head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/detroit\/news\/dusty-may-leads-michigan-into-programs-first-final-four-since-2018\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dusty May<\/a>, are trying to win the program&#8217;s second NCAA men&#8217;s basketball national championship. The school&#8217;s only tournament win to date was in 1989, when Michigan defeated Seton Hall.<\/p>\n<p>The national championship game tips off at 8:50 p.m. on TBS, truTV and HBO Max.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With UConn and Michigan playing for the NCAA Men&#8217;s Basketball championship tonight in Indianapolis, there are a few&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187530,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[63551,63552,9,11,10,66716],"class_list":{"0":"post-187529","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-march-madness","9":"tag-ncaa-tournament","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-headlines","12":"tag-new-york-news","13":"tag-uconn"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}