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Wednesday, November 12, 2008

NCAA Basketball 09 Answers and Impressions

Posted on November 12, 2008 at 09:45 PM.

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Here are some overall thoughts after simming a season in dynasty mode. Also, I have included a few other nuggets as well for you guys who have been asking questions.

Dynasty Mode Thoughts

The mode is very similar to last year, which I consider a good thing. The mode has been slowly gravitating towards what college hoops has been offering in terms of how it handles the coaching market.

You can pretty much customize everything while setting up your dynasty. Basically anything from having the ability to get fired, to being able to select only the schools that want to hire you as your first school, to whether injuries happen and how frequently. Basically, you can customize your universe as you see fit.

The pre-season menu has been streamlined a bit, and is still easy to navigate. Options are very similar to last year.

Finally, stats and such seem to be acceptable at first glance. I picked for my team to play an up-tempo game and it seems like all of the scores of my games (simulated) are a bit higher, so that's a good thing. I will share some more stats when I'm through a complete season.

If the recruiting ratings are handled anything like they were last year (with the letter ratings being a general predictor of what guys are rated), the recruiting may be a bit top heavy with a bunch of guys being pretty good at the top (some 5 stars will be 90+ overalls) with the lower tier guys being barely 55-60 ovr. That makes sense. Since I haven't completed a full season, I don't have full impressions on this just yet.

-Is XYZ School in the game? What are their uniforms? Can I get a screenshot? What about player John Doe?

Let's just make this simple....just about every Division I school is in the game. Some do have alternate unis, some don't. I haven't seen anyone with more than 3 unis though so far (home, away, alternate). And while I'd love to spend all day getting roster screenshots and the like, I unfortunately am limited on the amount of time I have so team specific questions aren't going to be answered. I'm sorry, but it's just a matter of me not having the time to dig through each team's rosters, uniforms and arenas.

-Is there a create-a-school mode?

Simply put, no.

-What creation options are there?

You can create players, edit players, delete players, edit coaches and there is the auto name rosters feature.

-What legendary teams made it?

I'm going to try to compile this list, but no guarantees. The teams you would expect to see are on here though. You have the 66 Texas Western bunch, 07 Florida, 01 Duke, 83 Houston and so on and so forth...complete list coming soon.

More to come, keep checking back on my blog!