How To Update 2k Roster

We've been talking about college sports returning to the video game world more and more as of tardily, but we're still totally in the dark when it comes to any hope of a hereafter college basketball title. With that in mind, it'south swell that people like traveltall and Adam7610 are all the same making updated rosters for College Hoops 2K8. They recently put out an update that further refines their College Hoops 2K8 2021-22 roster, and it's worth calling it out for those hankering for some college hoops activity in one form or some other.

Higher Hoops 2K8 2021-22 Roster

The updates by traveltall and Adam7610 have been ongoing the last couple years, and they put a lot of time into this projection. They scour multiple resources to effort and put together the best possible roster for anybody withal playing Higher Hoops 2K8 on PS3 (or elsewhere, cough RPCS3 cough).

How To Download

Game: College Hoops 2K8 (PS3)
Roster name: Roster 2021-22 All Teams v2 (yous can also download the file in the beginning post of the thread)
Player to check: Brockington – Iowa State – rating: 81

How to relieve/load the roster file:

On your USB create a folder called PS3, inside that folder create a folder chosen SAVEDATA.
Once you download and unzip the roster file motility that folder (called BLUS….) within the SAVEDATA binder.
Plug your USB into your PS3, and so before starting the game and on the PS3 home screen click on "Save data utility". You lot volition see your USB, click on information technology, so "re-create" to roster file from your USB to your PS3.
And then load the game and the roster file volition load automatically. If information technology doesn't, then you lot tin load it yourself from inside the game. The whole process should accept less than a minute.

What'due south Included

With this roster, over 350 teams and 4,000 players take been edited
Courts have also been updated
Coaches take been updated
A how-to document on how to do conference realignment (tin be found in the first post in the thread)

More Details

I'll mitt it off to the roster makers to particular another elements:

Rotations are set for every team. Players were given a free Covid year and so I used the yr they are listed in Athlon magazine, I also used Lindys mag and the Barttorvik website to come up with player ratings. I paid close attending to every players 3 betoken % and and then that is especially accurate for every thespian, difficult to gauge freshman sometimes.

We used the original base roster which Phil had edited coaches up to the start of final yr, I edited the coaching changes up to the start of this season and some courts take been updated as well. This year's roster file includes no broken names or spelling errors (which haunted the states in the by).

In addition to each players overall rating nosotros tried to get in that location playing way also. We got each players position, height, weight, pare colour and hair correct. We did not become their hometowns, that takes too long. I as well removed all scarlet shirts considering that is becoming a thing of the past and takes also long to runway downward for each player. Each squad is xi-xiii players deep.

Rough ratings guide:

All Americans: depression ninety'south
Ability Conf 1st teamers: mid-high 80'south
Ability Conf second teamers: mid-depression 80'southward
Power Conf 3rd teamers: depression 80's

Ability Conf starters practiced teams: high-mid 70's
Power Conf starters on bad teams: mid 70's-high 60'southward
Ability Conf backups: low 70's-mid 60's

Mid Major All Conf players: 80's
Mid Major starters: high-mid 70's

Small conference All Conf players: mid-low seventy's
Small Conf starters: high-mid 60'due south

(In that location are exceptions and nosotros went by Lindy'due south conference rankings to determine conference rankings. Players that shot over 40% or close to have the three betoken icon.)

Iv teams were changed from the original game because those teams are no longer in D1. All courts, colors and players inverse for those teams, simply uniforms remain from the erstwhile school.

Savannah St now Thousand Canyon
Louisiana-Calcutta at present South Dakota
Winston-Salem at present UMass Lowell
Bethune-Cookman now Bryant
(I know Bethune is D1 yet, but they were changed)

Legacy Mode Ideas

Fun legacy/flavour ideas with the 2021-22 roster from the creators:

I'yard going to skip over the obvious teams similar UCLA, Gonzaga, Duke, etc. If you have whatever other then share them!!

Memphis (a little obvious) – Fab Frosh – a already stacked team, so add 2 of the all-time freshmen in the nation in Bates and Duren (both reclassified). Penny is a not bad recruiter, but he'due south not made the tournament yet.

San Francisco – two all-conf guards in Bouyea and Shabazz, simply the WCC has the Zags (BYU and Saint Mary's).

Marshall – Herd That – lots of good 3 point shooters and CUSA is a multi-bid league some years.

Boston College – Edible bean Town – worst team in ACC, but Boston might be a good recruiting base of operations.

Louisiana – Twin Towers – Jordan Brown and Theo Akwuba both 6'eleven and all conference power forrad.

The Citadel – What tin Brown do for yous? – Hayden Brown is the SoCon player of the year, but that's about all they got. Plus recruiting a a armed services school might be tough.

Tenn Martin – For Coach Stewart – He passed abroad last season and non one player from last year's team is on this twelvemonth'due south roster, they are bad, very bad. This would exist the ultimate rebuild.

Nevada – Reno 911 – The backcourt that not many know about, Sherfield and Cambridge and small forward Coleman, should push for a at large this year.

Miss. St – Dark equus caballus – Iverson Molinar might be my favorite guard in the game, merely Miss St likewise has two 6'10 all conference players in Brooks and Smith.

Belmont or Murray St. – Belmont is one-time and deep and they might be sweet 16 good, simply Murray St is really good to, these ii usually meet in the conference concluding and information technology produces wild games in a i bid league.

Whatsoever Ivy League team – The old fashion way – no conf tournament.

Missouri State – Mosley (smoothen guard) and Prim (a banger down low), two 1st team all-conference players, merely tough league with Loyal, Northern Iowa and Drake picked ahead of them.

Binghamton or St Joe's – For me – I played at Binghamton and went to grad schoolhouse at St Joe's, both schools have been in the lesser of their respective leagues for the by few seasons. They play in Philly on Dec 1st and I'm flying up for the game.

Syracuse – iii Boeheims and a ii/3 zone – enough said.

St. Bonaventure – Mid major madness – stacked team, 4 all conference players.

Iowa State – Rebuild in the cornfields (well Ames) – fun rebuild simply generally considering their home court is so cool!

Nebraska – five star huh? – They somehow landed Bryce McGowens a 5-star baby-sit, his blood brother Trey is also on the team.

Any SEC team – its a basketball conference now! League is stacked, meridian 8 teams are actually actually good.

Hawaii – Isle Time – thin roster, but it would be interesting to recruit and rebuild on the island. They take one of the best courts in the game.

Milwaukee – Like father like son – MacDonald'due south All-American Patrick Baldwin Jr decided to play for his father at Milwaukee and he'south actually really proficient, merely Wright St and Cleveland State are improve teams in the Horizon.

North Florida – The Ospreys – iii all-conf players, Hendrickson, Placer and Aybar in the ASun with Liberty and Lipscomb to compete with in a ane bid league.

Chicago State – Covid Country – They played a few games concluding twelvemonth then canceled the flavour, everyone left, team is the worst in the game (all due respect to Delaware State). Bring them back to life!

Bottom Line

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