College -basketball is back to the virtual world. On Thursday, 2K Sports announced that it will soon include Basketball Programs in his NBA Videoogame franchise on the heels of EA Sports who is said to be withdrawn his license offer to make a standing game.
In his announcement2k revealed that the “College Basketball experience” will contain more than 100 programs that will appear in the game in the coming two years with “a few surprises” planned for the beginning of 2026 and “big plans for 2027 and then”.
“Yes, it’s true,” 2k wrote in a statement. “We are working on a basketball experience with a university with more than 100 programs from all over the country, from power patterns to Cinderella stories. Quality of the fuel competition at all levels, therefore our approach with college basketball ensures that our partner schools, college athletes and our players all benefits.
After the return of EA Sports’ College Football Franchise, it has long been speculated that hoops would also make a comeback. But the actual development of the game has been cloudy. In June sport in June the return of his college Hoops match teased For the first time since 2009, extra points reported that the company focused on a release date in 2028.
However, A Tuesday report of extra points Explained that EA Sports sent a memo to license directors for individual schools and conferences that said it had been withdrawn his license offer because some schools had already accepted a 2K offer to be involved in the NBA franchise.
“Since there are some schools that choose to accept the 2K sports proposal for admission to NBA 2K, the offer to be included in a college basketball video game will unfortunately have to be withdrawn,” says the memo.
“Everyone at EA Sports is disappointed that we could not find an acceptable path forward, but we appreciate your support in trying to bring a standing college basketball game with all the institutions for men and ladies Division 1 and student athletes, conferences and the NCAA, in a way that they really want to value.”
In contrast to the proposal of EA Sports for a stand -alone College Hoops game, the 2K proposal concerned a college gameplay format, According to extra points:
In contrast to EA Sports, the 2K offer did not call for the recording of every basketball program for men and ladies. Instead, another CLC Memo described the 2K proposal as a non-exclusive license to produce a “5V5 Tournament Gameplay format integrated in the NBA 2K MyTeam mode via downloadable content (DLC).” 2k would evaluate the viability of a stand -alone basketball title of the University, depending on the financial performance of College Basketball DLC.
The last edition of NCAA Basketball was released by EA Sports in November 2009, and the then star of Oklahoma Blake Griffin was on the cover. A year earlier was the last time that 2K Sports produced his college basketball match. Bad sales ensured that both companies stop making those games.
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