To EA's credit, they did add four new tournaments to NCAA Basketball 09: The Old Spice Classic, the Puerto Rico Tip-Off, the Anaheim Classic and the EA Sports Tournament of Legends - but the only one that is particularly noteworthy is the Tournament of Legends, which allows you to put together your own eight-team tourney using some of the most famous college basketball teams in history. However, even after I'd replaced the Creightons, Colgates and Eastern Michigans of the world with foes like Kansas, Georgetown and UCLA, my strength of schedule remained at a lowly three stars. The most noticeable offense I found in Dynasty Mode was easy to spot: playing as the Duke Blue Devils, the CPU ranked my team's initial strength of schedule at three stars, so I decided to make things a little tougher on myself and replace every cupcake game on the team's schedule with formidable, ranked opponents.
NCAA Basketball 09's Dynasty Mode doesn't offer anything new either. You'll also find that the graphics are untouched from EA's previous college basketball titles, as are the animations, most of which look terrible - even by PS2 standards. You'll still find that CPU-controlled players have no problem pushing user-controlled players around on the court, that your team is often extremely slow to respond and execute the plays that you've called, and that when the CPU initiates an intentional foul that you're powerless to pass the ball off to a teammate in hopes of keeping the clock running. Get your college hoops rivalry on! This year's game is plagued by the same spotty gameplay that's been a staple of EA's college basketball franchise for years, as the publisher and development team have obviously turned their attention to other projects. EA has dropped the title NCAA March Madness in favor of the catchy moniker NCAA Basketball (note the sarcasm), and former UCLA star and current Minnesota Timberwolves forward Kevin Love replaces Kevin Durant as the cover athlete in this year's college hoops offering, but that's pretty much the extent of the changes you'll find between this year's college round-ball offering and last year's.
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