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The app

Dean's List is a native iOS app for NCAA Men's college basketball — a solo-built product launching for the 2026–27 season.

Core features (free)

  • Live Games — scores with date-strip navigation, full game detail with synthesized box scores and team comparison
  • Conference-grouped standings for D1 men's, populated year-round
  • AP Top 25 with week-over-week trend arrows
  • March Madness bracket — region-by-region from Selection Sunday through the title game
  • Player and team search with recent history
  • Calendar integration (EventKit write-only)
  • Full VoiceOver support, dark mode, dynamic type, reduced motion

Dean's List Pro ($2.99/mo · $19.99/yr)

  • AI Game Recaps — Apple Foundation Models generate on-device narrative summaries of completed games; no data leaves the device
  • Live Odds — spread, moneyline, and total for every NCAAB game
  • Multi-Team Widgets — Medium (2 teams) and Large (4 teams)

System integration

  • Siri Shortcuts — "Hey Siri, what's the Duke score in Dean's List?"
  • Spotlight indexing for every D1 team
  • Home Screen Quick Actions (Today's Games, My Team, Standings)
  • Widgets across Home Screen, Lock Screen, StandBy, and Control Center
  • Interactive Swift Charts with audio-graph accessibility for VoiceOver
  • CoreHaptics on score deltas during live games

Craft notes

Dean's List is not endorsed by or affiliated with the NCAA. Game data, standings, stats, and odds are powered by the balldontlie API. Anonymous crash and usage analytics via Firebase — see the privacy policy for details. Brand color is NCAA Blue (#009CDE). Built in SwiftUI, Swift 6 strict-concurrency clean, targeting iOS 17+.

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