IHSAA Updates 2025-26 Postseason Broadcast Guide for Semistate and State Tournament Play

The IHSAA rolled out an updated broadcast guide for its 2025-26 postseason just as the tournament field narrowed toward semistate and state championship play, consolidating the viewing information that fans, coaches, and programs need in one place.

The updated "Watch: 2025-26 Plan" guidance covers the full range of postseason video access, bringing together partner information, platform details, and broadcast windows under a single reference. The timing, aligned with the semistate and state rounds, reflects the association's intent to reduce friction for viewers trying to follow teams as the stakes climb and the field shrinks.

Semistate and state tournament games represent the highest-profile broadcasts of the Indiana high school basketball calendar, drawing audiences well beyond the home communities of the competing programs. The IHSAA's decision to refresh and centralize this guidance ahead of those rounds acknowledges that broadcast logistics, split across multiple platforms and partner arrangements, can be genuinely difficult to navigate without a consolidated source.

The update addresses the layered reality of modern high school sports media, where a single tournament run might be streamed on one platform through sectionals and surface on a different partner broadcast by the time a program reaches state. Having the watch plan current before the final rounds removes a variable that has frustrated fans in previous postseasons.

The 2025-26 boys and girls basketball state tournaments represent the culmination of a season-long competition involving hundreds of programs across Indiana's class system. With the bracket now down to its final games, the IHSAA's broadcast guide serves as the practical roadmap for anyone who wants to watch history get made on the floor.