College Basketball 2025 Launches with NIL Options

March has arrived, bringing the release of Draft Day Sports: College Basketball 2025, now available for purchase on Steam and the Wolverine Studios website for $39.99. Take control of your favorite program, recruit future stars and lead your team to postseason success. As the coach, every decision is in your hands, from managing practice schedules to keeping players academically eligible. On game day, call the shots from the sideline and shape your team’s destiny. Whether you’re building a powerhouse from the ground up or using the transfer portal to reload each season, the strategy is yours to craft.

This year brings major upgrades, including a refined game engine that makes players move and play more like today’s college stars. Recruiting has been expanded with new elements and a more streamlined approach, giving you greater control over the information you gather on prospects. Division II players are now part of the transfer portal, adding another layer to roster building. For the first time, NIL makes its way into the game, introducing a whole new dynamic to recruiting and transfers.

Here are some of the new features this year:

• Coach your games with our fun and exciting 2D game presentation. Game engine improvements allow players to play like modern day college players and provide accurate and realistic stats.
• Recruiting changes and improvements increase the skill of your AI opponents, allow you to recruit faster and get more of the info you want with fewer clicks and new additions like DII transfers up the realism factor even more.
• Introducing the world of NIL to the game! Entice recruits and transfer players to come to your school by using your school’s NIL collective to offer lucrative deals to get that player that you need.
• Explore new and useful information in the game such as the tournament watch screen to see how your chances of making the big dance are going, a full recruiting history for each team and a section devoted to our in-game recruiting service to give you even more recruiting information.
• Brand new conference editing option allows you to no longer be limited to one for one swaps. Add or remove multiple teams from conferences to let your association to be setup the way you want it to.
• Link your college basketball league to Draft Day Sports: Pro Basketball 2024 with greater ease now as a system of new in-game prompts and pop-ups help you to keep your game on track so that your players can transfer from one game to the other smoothly when the time comes.