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EA Announces College Basketball Game 16 Years After The Last Onenew features
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EA Announces College Basketball Game 16 Years After The Last One new features
After more than 15 years away, EA Sports has announced it’s returning to the world of college basketball games. A new entry in the series is coming, and it’ll be the first since 2009’s NCAA Basketball 10.”Bring the Madness. Let’s run it back,” EA said in its announcement, referring to March Madness. EA did not provide any specifics at all, however, but that’s not totally unexpected. After all, when EA announced it was bringing its college football series back, it did so with a basic social media post first to get people excited before the company eventually shared more details.Extra Points obtained a memo from the Collegiate Licensing Company (CLC) detailing a request that the CLC put out trying to solicit bids to make a new college basketball game. It appears EA emerged the winner from a bidding process that included three formal bids. The CLC’s proposal called for women’s basketball teams to be included alongside men’s teams.Bring the Madness. Let’s run it back. #CBB #ItsInTheGame pic.twitter.com/iBNhGxn2yj — EA SPORTS (@EASPORTS) June 30, 2025 We can pretty safely assume that EA will not use the NCAA branding for its new college basketball game given the company also parted ways with the NCAA for its football series, but nothing is confirmed yet. EA and the NCAA stopped working together years ago due to a variety of legal and financial reasons.As mentioned, the last EA-developed college basketball game was 2009’s NCAA Basketball 10, which featured Oklahoma’s Blake Griffin on the cover.EA’s NCAA college football series, meanwhile, came to an end in 2013 before EA revived the franchise in 2024 as EA Sports College Football 25. There was enormous pent-up demand for the game, and it ended up as 2024’s No. 2 best-selling game overall in the US, only trailing the newest entry in Activision’s annual juggernaut Call of Duty series.The new EA-made college basketball game has no confirmed release date or platforms yet, but the memo mentioned the first game arriving in 2028. You can keep checking back with GameSpot for the latest.This is just the latest revival from EA Sports, as the company brought back its college football series in 2024 with College Football 25. That game made more than $1 billion in revenue, so it’s hardly a surprise to see EA want to capitalize on the hype and try its hand with another college sports revival.