NCAA March Madness 07

NCAA March Madness 07

The NCAA Basketball (formerly NCAA March Madness) series was a college basketball game published by EA Sports from 1998 to 2009. After EA Sports' rival publisher 2K Sports discontinued its own college basketball game, College Hoops, in 2008, EA changed the name of the series from NCAA March Madness to NCAA College Basketball. The series was discontinued on February 10, 2010.[1] As with other games based on NCAA sports, player names were not allowed to be used (this violates NCAA guidelines), so only player numbers were used in the rosters. Users could edit the rosters and enter the correct names for each team if they wanted to. Many players' last names were incorporated into the game commentary, as in the NBA Live series. Verne Lundquist, Brad Nessler, and Gus Johnson lent their voices to the play-by-play at various times. Lundquist was the original announcer, Nessler took over in the mid-2000s, and Johnson joined for the final game of the series. Bill Raftery and Dick Vitale were the analysts. Raftery originally worked with Lundquist on the games and returned to the CBS games alongside Johnson for NCAA Basketball 10, while Vitale and Nessler joined the series at the same time