I Rebuilt Harvard in NCAA Basketball 

Some advice: 1) The Pipeline is your friend. If you want to recruit above your prestige, find a pipeline 3 or 4 star without any interest in you, send them an email, LOI and “package” (pause?) and see if there’s any positive momentum a week later. If there is, just keep doing it. 2) for everybody else, including any player who is interested in you to begin the year, DO NOT SEND PACKAGE. just use letter of interest or whatever it is. The package is very expensive, doesnt have much effect except for guys not already interested, and it doesnt unlock any actions either; a letter is all you need to offer a scholarship. And if they dont accept your scholarship immediately, just keep sending emails and letters. 3) after two failed scholarship offers, you cant offer that guy again. Wait until you are at “HIGHEST” interest level to do it. If they are at “HIGHEST” and don’t accept it, check your recruiting emails. They may first want you to promise them something.

We need more college bball vids. A franchise like the Grand Rapids one would be niceeeeeee 💯💯💯

The Ivy League DID NOT have a conference tournament until a few years ago. The game is correct about that.

Petition to make this a series 👇

I’ve played the crap out of this game, so here’s the full recruiting guide: 1. Only go after players that have a high or highest interest level. It’s pretty much impossible to get any player with a lower interest level 2. Always look for players with a high three point percentage (at least 40-55 percent). This really helps your team score more points. 3. If you don’t have many recruiting points available, go for players that are geographically closer to you. 4. Always try to recruit so you have three players at every position on your team.

we need a new college basketball game

first year senior point guard was jeremy lin irl

"These next few games are very important...." proceeds to play 0 of them

You should do an extended series on College hoops 2k8. The dynasty mode is far superior imo

The presentation of this game is phenomenal. Two different scoreboards, the ticket stubs it shows, the athletic director emailing you, the coaches shaking hands, and much more. A+++

You should start doing more college basketball vids

For recruiting, send letter of interest (gotta do that before you can offer a scholly). I saw someone else noted that you can only offer scholly's twice, but make sure you're aware of this. Sometimes, offering the scholly and them declining it will still boost their school interest, so it's an option with someone who is HIGH to offer them the 1st time scholly just to boost them to the place where they will accept the scholly offer the next week. I just use the asst coach call to be cheap and then an unofficial visit. However, you'll notice that different recruits cost different amounts for recruiting items. When they're one of the cheap ones, I'll use the head coach visit and an official visit to really try to make a push. I've changed some guys from Very Low to Highest before (although that's not common).

Please rebuild Michigan in that game. Michigan sucks at basketball and I hate Howard. I am a Michigan and please do it!

Your basketball commentary seems fine to me. The play by with facts sprinkled in like you usually do is kinda universal

There’s a mod for NCAA 10 like CFB Revamped called March Madness Legacy. It has rosters from last year but the team is working on this year’s.

Brody Everage was actually Jeremy Lin.

I miss playing the NCAA basketball games, they always hit different in a good way. Can't remember the year but there was one that had a defensive system that allowed you to force the ball handler a direction into a trap. Me and my friend used to play on the same team and dominate with the full and half court trap

Definitely like the basketball game play...I know you say you only play during March Madness but this is pure entertainment. Keep it up!!!

Man you finna bring in a MAJOR DAN BASE DOING THESE KEEP GOING❗️💪🏾

Your march madness game made it feel like I was watching live march madness great video

PART TWO PLEASEEEEEEEEE I love your videos man keep it up❤❤

I know a lot of people say this but, every time Bordeaux posts my day gets so much better. I really mean it

Yay! Finally another NCAA Basketball rebuild! 😆😊 Much love from another Northern Kentucky guy ❤💙

I’m 100% down with you doing more basketball videos in the future even after March madness.

this is fun, would enjoy more of these getting mixed in

Bro this one of my fav channels without a doubt! Bringing back NCAA basketball is GOAT shit

Only a few seasons in, but you need to work on some plays. An easy one is to get a big who is a good passer to post up. Take your guard on the wing to the same side of the court as the big then throw the entry pass. Once the big has the ball, take 1-2 dribbles to back him down and almost always the other post defender will double. This should leave the other big for you open and an easy alley-oop target. In my opinion, the alley-oop option is almost a glitch in the game with it's high success rate from certain spots.

Bordeaux, you should put your best dynasty teams into one football tournament.(Like GCU, Liberty and Army) All teams you rebuilt in your previous videos

College Hoops 2k8 is probably the best route to go. NCAA Basketball has nice presentation/atmosphere, but man is that gameplay rough

Keep this stuff up Bordeaux we need more of these

The way you edited this it makes me almost claustrophobic. You unnecessarily made it sound like you just don't breathe. You don't have to edit out your breathing 😂

If I remember correctly, you could force the AI into a backcourt violation so easily. I think you pick up the player just at half court and then they always do a step back dribble. Pretty impressive rebuild, would be interesting to see if you could do it without accepting invites to other conferences

Hey, nice video. Have you considered doing an HBCU video for March Madness 10? I think it would be an interesting addition to the other HBCU videos you’ve done. If not, could you try a school with virtually no athletic tradition in basketball? Like Portland State, Eastern Washington, UMKC (University of Missouri Kansas City), or Army/ Navy.

Its so funny how you could dominate old basketball games just by simply shooting threes.

love the vid! i'd like to see you play in the conference games and the tournaments like the nit

you should do more rebuilds with this game definitely a 🔥 video

Always a good day when we get a new video💯

you should do this as a series, but with UMaine basketball. UMaine is one of like the 5 or 6 teams to never make the national tournament, and being from Maine myself, I know how much that team means to the state.

My first NCAA game had Durant on the cover. I remember being like who is this number 35?? I looked his name up and was amazed!! Been a fan of his game ever since.

I'm excited to see some basketball on the channel!

Love the video but will not lie and say I was very happy to see my Boilermakers finally have some success in March

I kno it is glitchy but definitely enjoyed watching this!

I’ve been waiting for a basketball video! Let’s cross our fingers for a new college basketball game

Play with maryland! Also you should do a series where you are the coach of maryland too!! 🎉🎉 thanks for the awesome videos

gotta do more of these!

These games were so ahead of their time. So awesome

Nice to see another fellow Kentucky fan!

This is tough, great vid

Damn I took this game for granted, wish i had all those discs again

YOU GOTTA DO MORE NCAA BASKETBALL REBUILDS!!!

That video was a nice change of pace

Bro this video got me runnin a dynasty now too 🤣

Man every time he uploads its great 😁

“We’re ganna continue our losing streak until we finally get a win”, someone hire this guy 😂

Ah snap we done stepped into the basketball realm. You already know it’s time to do a 96 & a 98 CATS team. Or the Anthony Davis and Kidd Gilchrest team too.

Need more of these

Would ABSOLUTELY love an Arkansas rebuild on this

ive missed your basketball content

I know this is a basketball video but I'd like to see a NCAA Rutgers rebuild

awesome video, enjoyed it a ton. great work

With the shooters you recruited you should be blowing zone teams out by running a pick and pop offense vs taking deep threes over and over. Your senior pg was Linnsanity, should have been running pick and roll and using his speed and playmaking ability.

bordeaux should do a rebuild on ncaa mvp baseball 07 that game lit

He actually talked about my team let’s go X

5:03 if you didn’t know since this is NCAA 2010 the ivy leuge did not have a conference tournament till a couple of years ago, they would just pick the team who had the best record and they would be in March

NCAA basketball coach mode was so fire

I love this can you keep this videos up love watching them

This is amazing bro

I’m kinda curious as to how you work it because I’m used to cfb and this recruiting is way different. Good series bro.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE DO MORE OF THESE

Ivy League getting some love. I am a Harvard fan and you have no idea how hard it is to make the tourney. Wow my two favorite teams playing in the finals.🤯🤯🤯

"you could probably hear the worry in my voice". I thought you were up 50

If you do another one of these, you should do Wichita State! Since the final four run we’ve fallen off a cliff and the NCAA Football 14 WSU rebuild is one of my favorite of yours

Please more ncaa basketball vids great video

Please do another basketball video I really enjoyed watching it

Would have loved to see you play as Jeremy Lin (PG #4) that first season and try and replicate the ridiculous numbers he was putting up that year

That’s funny I was getting the itch for a Bordeaux video

How does shooting work in this game? Just pure chance based on player stats?

We need the qb series to stay alive

Great commentary Bordeaux

I'd also suggest changing some player positions of your players for game time

Please make this a series

love 1 hour videos that are in a monotone voice spoken with 0 emotion through out, maybe even speed it up a little bit aswell

Need more CBB content!!

Hell yea James!!

Nice vid, can you do a rebuild with CAL GOLDEN BEARS on cfb pls btw im not from cali just wanna see how it would go.

Also you when will you upload the random location imperialism?

Just like you should do in football dynasty, i believe an Indiana University rebuild would be awesome for basketball as well! Keep up your great work!

Rebuild every big ten school in 1 video pls that would be the best

Hey man, good job on these vids. Can you tell me how to install the March Madness Legacy mod on my ncaa basketball 10 for the ps3?

I think you should continue to do it where you can only play games via jumping in simcast. Its tough it broke.

More basketball vids!!! Also if you have ncaa baseball those videos would be cool too!

the new march madness legacy is coming out soon with updated rosters/jerseys etc.

People who want Bordeaux to play the ncaa madden mod like MMG 👇

You have to make college basketball vids it makesme want to watch ore of your vids

How did you get sim cast working, I was using rcps3, and the sim cast was not working

Just a question but how do you download this on pc?

shoutout my school🤟🏾

I miss this game was one of my favorites

He’s open and he’s not stroking- Bordeaux 2024

I miss College Basketball video games so much, ESPECIALLY the College Hoops 2k series. 2k8 IMO is the best sports video game of all time.