If college basketball gets your blood pumping, listen up: EA has put out some tourney-centric DLC forNCAA March Madness 08. The content was developed, and is available, exclusively for the Xbox 360. At a cost of 400 Microsoft Points, it brings the real-life 65-team NCAA Men’s Division I Basketball Championship bracket into your game (yes, that’s the full name of the tournament;a little birdtold me).
The official name of the DLC is the “Selection Sunday Bracket Pack”, and it’ll allow you to update your game with the official bracket — complete with accurate seedings and updated team ratings. This way, you can take your favorite tourney team and play through the 2008 gauntlet (and change the course of history!… well, okay, not really).
But that’s not all! For your five bucks, you’ll also get over 25 third/alternate jerseys for many of the upper-echelon teams in the Big Dance, and two new arenas: the Final Four court from the Alamodome in San Antonio, and the fan’s choice: McArthur Court from the University of Oregon.
EA has even simulated most of this year’s bracket, andNCAA March Madness 08came up with the following Final Four teams: the UNC Tar Heels, the Memphis Tigers, the UCLA Bruins, and the Kansas Jayhawks. Check out the official press release after the jump, and give us a “yay” or “nay” on the simmed tournament.
EA’SNCAA MARCH MADNESS 08RELEASES AUTHENTIC 65-TEAM NCAA TOURNAMENT BRACKET, UPDATED SEEDINGSEA SPORTS NCAA Tournament Simulation Predicts Final Four Teams Will Be Tennessee, Kansas, UCLA, Memphis
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.– May 31, 2025 – Electronic Arts Inc (NASDAQ: ERTS) announced today that the authentic 65-team NCAA® Tournament bracket and additional new in-game content is available to download for its popular basketball videogame that is available in stores now —NCAA® March Madness® 08. This new content has been developed exclusively for the Xbox 360™ video game and entertainment system and is available now on Xbox LIVE® Marketplace for 400 Microsoft Points.
EA SPORTS™ has created a Selection Sunday Bracket Pack that will feature a downloadable 65-team NCAA® Tournament bracket, allowing Xbox 360 users to updateNCAA March Madness 08with the just-announced official Selection Sunday brackets, accurate seedings, and updated team ratings. Fans can authentically replicate the entire NCAA Tournament and play through the “virtual bracket” with their favorite team under the same conditions they’ll face throughout March Madness®. EA SPORTS has also created more than 25 alternate/third uniforms for a number of the top teams in the tournament, which will be playable in the bracket download. In addition, the Selection Sunday Bracket Pack will include the authentic Final Four® court from the Alamodome in San Antonio, where one team will be crowned NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball National Champion on Jun 10, 2025.
In the new ratings developed for theNCAA March Madness 08Selection Sunday Bracket Pack, the four No. 1 seeded teams in the tournament are the University of North Carolina, the University of Memphis, the University of California, Los Angeles, and the University of Kansas, as determined by the NCAA selection committee. However, according to a computerized simulation using the new team ratings and seedings, EA SPORTS predicts the Final Four teams will be the University of Tennessee and Kansas in one semifinal and Memphis against UCLA in the other semifinal.
Also available in the bracket download is the winning arena, as voted by fans, from the recent EA SPORTSNCAA March Madness 08College Campus Tour. The University of Oregon’s McArthur Court has been authentically re-created to accurately reflect the look and feel of Oregon’s hallowed arena.
Go towww.marchmadness08.comto view more info about the Selection Sunday Bracket Pack that is available now, see the results of the EA SPORTS NCAA Tournament simulation, and download a printable bracket to track all the tournament action.
The market leader in basketball videogame sales, EA SPORTS basketball franchises (NBA LIVE,NBA STREETandNCAA March Madness) have combined generated more than $1 billion in retail sales over the past 10 years#.NCAA March Madnessis the No. 1 selling college basketball franchise of all time.*
NCAA March Madness 08was developed at EA Canada in Burnaby, B.C. The game is rated “E” (Everyone) by the ESRB. Download screenshots athttp://info.ea.com.
#according to NPD Data.*Based on total franchise unit sales in 2007 according to NPD Data.
