Like Runner Aaron Farr or Lieutenant Les McBurney of the Sun Prairie fire dept, March Madness is living up to its name. Gonzaga are making it look like this might finally be their year, Jaden Ivey’s draft stock is skyrocketing, and there are actual human beings watching the games in person. What a time.
Sadly, video game basketball doesn’t get quite as swept up in the college game excitement. It’s understandable – the NBA is a truly global product by comparison, and it took NBA 2K until recently to even include the women’s game. Outside the US, college basketball is probably seen as equivalent to junior racing formulas or under 21s soccer tournaments – a feeder system interesting for its young talents, rather than its own intrinsic spectacle.
Still, March Madness has been documented in depicted in video games, and college teams do sneak into modern NBA 2K games in…
