Bradley, Creighton, Drake, Evansville, Illinois State, Indiana State, Northern Iowa, Southern Illinois, SMSU (Missouri State), Wichita State.
The active modding community at maintains a sticky thread titled:
: A tough but rewarding starting point. Their default roster is incredibly young, clearing massive scholarship space for future recruitment classes. college+hoops+2k8+teams+list+link
The game originally shipped with over , including then-newcomers like Florida Gulf Coast , Cal State Bakersfield , and South Carolina-Upstate .
East Carolina, Houston, Marshall, Memphis, Rice, SMU, Southern Miss, Tulane, Tulsa, UAB, UCF, UTEP. The game originally shipped with over , including
the unzipped roster folder (usually starting with a code like BLUS or BLES ) directly into your SAVEDATA folder.
: Located in a fertile, talent-rich recruiting region, allowing sharp coaches to build an underdog powerhouse quickly. : Located in a fertile, talent-rich recruiting region,
The "Legacy" mode in this game allowed you to take a lowly Division II school and build them into a powerhouse, or start at a mid-major and jump to a blue blood. The playbooks were deep, the play-calling was intuitive, and the "2K Share" feature (which the community still utilizes via workarounds) allowed for endless customization.
If you are playing on or PlayStation 3 , you can still find community roster saves that update the teams to the current year, or correct the legends from the 2008 season.
Navigate to the College Hoops 2K8 sub-forum. This is the primary repository where users post updated text links, roster spreadsheets, and instructions on how to transfer real player names via USB.