You see, March Madness 07 is submitted as evidence that EA Sports just doesn’t give a damn about their basketball titles anymore. At least not enough to make them play well.

What’s wrong? Just about everything. The game allows you to start a college coaching career as a rookie coach taking over ANY program in the country, even Duke. Does that remotely make sense?

Once you take over a program, the recruiting feature is severely broken because of all the limitations for how you can sort recruits. The defensive aspect of the game is lacking and the two-button shooting system is archaic compared to 2K Sports’ system of choosing between button-shooting or right-analog stick shooting.

I could go on forever about how many ways this game is poorly conceived, but let’s leave it at this: stay away from this game and get 2K Sports’ College Hoops 2K7 or even Wolverine Studio’s Total College Basketball for PC. The latter may not be much for graphics, as a PC text-based sports management sim, but it’s a lot more engaging in nearly every other way than EA Sports’ latest hoops embarrassment.