10 Best Basketball Video Games Of All Time
7. NCAA Basketball 09
The NCAA Basketball series was discontinued in 2010 after a lawsuit regarding likeness usage without permission issued by former NCAA players. Whether student athletes deserve to be paid like their professional equivalents or not is up for debate, but from the gaming standpoint it's a shame that the community has been deprived of a great series, one which masterfully the recreated the college basketball atmosphere.
The crowds were louder and more passionate than in the NBA, and you could recruit high school players and be a college superstar, which was really promising and well executed. The second-to-last installment gets the nod over NCAA Basketball 10 because of the inclusion of 64 (!) historical teams.