EA CEO Teases College Basketball Return: 'We'd Have a Great Ability to Do College Basketball'

The CEO of Electronic Arts is teasing the instrumentality of EA College Basketball, conscionable 1 period aft a cryptic EA Sports tweet enactment the thought backmost into the heads of video crippled hoops fans.

Bring the Madness. Let’s tally it back. #CBB #ItsInTheGame pic.twitter.com/iBNhGxn2yj

— EA SPORTS (@EASPORTS) June 30, 2025

During today's Q1 net call, CEO Andrew Wilson was asked astir the imaginable instrumentality of College Basketball, apt successful effect to the supra tweet. Per reports backmost successful June and the supra clever tease, College Basketball is so slated to instrumentality from EA, though it volition beryllium a portion yet earlier we spot it - it's not expected until 2028.

Here's Wilson's vague, yet promising, effect successful full:

We can't accidental excessively overmuch astir it yet, but if I deliberation astir the opportunity, going backmost to wherever we are connected College Football, assemblage athletics has 1 of the astir vibrant fanbase successful the world. And that trickles implicit to hoops certainly. We're seeing momentum of fandom successful assemblage hoops besides proceed to grow. Fans, athletes, universities determination their passionateness into these sports. And it is that passionateness that makes it special, that makes the games different.But with that comes precocious expectations, and a request for profoundly authentic experiences: capturing the enactment connected the tract oregon the court, representing the energy, pagentry, the traditions, and celebrating the unsocial sights and sounds and stories of each schoolhouse and rivalry. We consciousness similar we present that incredibly good with College Football...we'd emotion to bash the aforesaid for basketball. All 350 programs, men's and women's teams, the iconic traditions and rivalries, and of course, March Madness.So for us, assemblage sports broadly is an breathtaking opportunity. We consciousness similar we've done a truly beardown job, and stay committed to doing that successful the discourse of assemblage football. We judge that with what we've done with the teams, the technology, and our committedness astir College Football, we'd person a large quality to bash the aforesaid for assemblage basketball, and arsenic we look to effort and activate against that opportunity, we'll beryllium capable to stock more.

Per reporting from The Athletic, EA Sports' connection for a College Basketball game, which was recommended for acceptance by the Collegiate Licensing Company, would see each Division I men's and women's teams (730 successful total). The games, of which determination would beryllium six successful full with releases opening successful 2028, would person akin features to College Football specified arsenic Dynasty Mode, Team Builder, Road to Glory, and Ultimate Team.

EA past produced a College Basketball crippled backmost successful 2009, but the bid was discontinued amid disputes implicit its usage of assemblage athletes' likenesses, and declining income compared to the College Football series. However, the occurrence of College Football seems to person sparked a caller involvement successful Basketball from EA...though it whitethorn beryllium facing contention from 2K Sports, if this NBA 2K authoritative Twitter/X station is immoderate indication.

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