College Hoops 2K20 Simulation Part I: Non-Conference Schedule

Photo by John McCreary/Icon Sportswire via Getty ImagesThere has been plenty of weeping and gnashing of teeth surrounding the loss of College Football games since the Ed O’Bannon lawsuit exposed the NCAA and its game makers as the grifters they are. Way before the very profitable College Football shut down, the much less viable NCAA Basketball games met their end a few years earlier as 2K Sports decided to focus on their (at the time) highly rated NBA 2K series and EA Sports realized they had to defend their long lasting NBA Live turf. 2K dropped the game after 2K8 and EA followed suit in 2010. Still, just like College Football, folks at sites like Operation Sports dedicate themselves yearly to updating rosters so folks can still get their college sports fix until that inevitable day where players can bargain collectively for their likenesses to be included in future games. To ape Steven’s series and SBN’s Ricky O’Donnell, I am going through College Hoops 2K8 on the X-Box 360 with State’s most recent roster simulating an approximation of our past season to see what the game offers us. I will be recruiting manually but simulating game play (that is at least until the ACC/NCAA tournys where I’m going to actively try to win us something we haven;t had in over 30 years).

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