# ESPN College Basketball Teams Directory

> ESPN College Basketball Teams Directory is a paid API for AI agents from clonecho.builda.company, paid per call via x402, $0.02/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Returns a complete list of NCAA men's basketball teams with each team's name, abbreviation, and location in JSON format.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://clonecho.builda.company/x402/s/espn-cbb-teams
- Price: $0.02/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/espn-college-basketball-teams-directory-24e78c9e
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_uBqQaqtstj30h-qYCNCNX

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability espn-college-basketball-teams-directory-24e78c9e -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you pull up the full list of NCAA men's basketball teams with their abbreviations and locations from ESPN?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need a structured, machine-readable reference list of all NCAA men's basketball teams — especially for populating dropdowns, validating team names, resolving abbreviations, or enriching sports data pipelines. Prefer this over scraping ESPN directly since it handles the data fetch and formatting for you.

## Known failure modes

- Network or upstream ESPN data unavailable — may return 5xx error
- x402 payment not completed — returns 402 Payment Required before data is delivered
- Stale or incomplete team list if ESPN source data is not updated mid-season

## How this service works

NCAA men's basketball teams with name, abbreviation and location. No params. Returns JSON.

## Output

A JSON array of NCAA men's basketball teams, each containing the team's full name, short abbreviation (e.g. 'DUKE', 'KU'), and geographic location/city.

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