Controller Setup
With a Multitap, NCAA Final Four supports up to five players per team, for a total of eight players in a game.
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D-Pad Left/Right to choose a team.
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Press to configure your controller for offensive and defensive game controls.
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D-Pad Up/Down to highlight a game action.
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D-Pad Left/Right to switch an action's button symbol with a different action's button symbol.
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If you want to use default settings after making changes, press .
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Press to accept the new configuration, or press to cancel.
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Press to start the game.
New Season
Select New Season to play an entire NCAA season. The goal is to win your conference and get a top seed in the NCAA Tournament.
Season Select Team
Play a season with a team in Division I-A or Division I-AA.
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From CONFERENCE, D-Pad Left/Right to choose a Conference.
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D-Pad Up/Down to SCHOOL and then Left/Right to choose a team from that Conference.
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D-Pad Up/Down to a game on the schedule.
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You can simulate any game on the schedule by highlighting a game date and pressing . This will simulate that game and all games prior to it. Once a game is simulated, it cannot be replayed.
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Press to play a game. In a multi-player game, this will bring up the Controller screen. See Exhibition for more details on setting up a game.
New Tournament
Bypass the regular season and jump straight into the NCAA Tournament. Four regional brackets make up 64 teams competing for the coveted NCAA Championship.
Tournament Tree
The Tournament Tree shows the matchups for each round. You can keep the matchups as is or customize your own tournament by changing who plays who and where. If you prefer, you can also simulate tournament games, making your run through the field of 64 much quicker. See Simulate Tournament Rounds for more details.
To make changes to the tournament setup:
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Press to select the tree map.
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Use the D-Pad to navigate through the tree map to select a particular Region.
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Press to switch control back to the team list.
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D-Pad Up/Down throughout the region to highlight a team.
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D-Pad Left/Right to choose a different team from the list of unseeded teams.
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When finished making changes, to play a game, D-Pad to a team matchup and Press to bring up the Controller screen. See Exhibition for more details on setting up a game.
NOTE: You will be locked into this tier of the tournament tree throughout the tournament.
Simulate Tournament Rounds
From the Tournament Tree, tournament rounds can be simulated.
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Press to simulate an entire round. Repeat this step all the way up to the championship game if you wish.
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When you are ready to resume play in a tournament game, press to bring up the Controller screen.
Continue
Continue a Season or Tournament at the next scheduled game. To use the Continue option, you must have already started a Season or Tournament, or loaded a previously saved Season or Tournament from a Memory Card. See Memory Card/Saving Data for more details. Also, see New Season or New Tournament for details of how to set up these games.
Stats
Use Stats to check out every individual and team stat imaginable.
Individuals
View the stats of each player in Division I-A and Division I-AA.
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From CONFERENCE, D-Pad Left/Right to choose a Conference.
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D-Pad Up/Down to SCHOOL and then Left/Right to choose a team from that Conference.
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D-Pad Down to activate the stats grid.
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D-Pad Up/Down to view the entire list of players.
To Sort a stat category, organizing players from best to worst:
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Highlight a stat category and press O.
Player Stat Abbreviations
The following are definitions of the statistical abbreviations shown under Individual Stats.
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FGA: Field Goals Attempted
Team Stats
See how each team stacks up to one another in each Conference.
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From CONFERENCE, D-Pad Left/Right to choose a Conference.
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D-Pad Down to activate the stats grid.
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D-Pad Up/Down to view the entire list of teams.
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D-Pad Left/Right to highlight a statistical category.
To Sort a stat category, organizing teams from best to worst:
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Highlight a stat category and press O.
Injuries (ON/OFF)
Keep Injuries ON to allow player injuries to occur during the game. See Injury Report for more information on player injuries.
Fatigue (ON/OFF)
Turn Fatigue OFF to keep your players from getting tired during play.
Fouls (ON/OFF)
Turn Fouls OFF to play a game without fouls being called.
Shot Meter (ON/OFF)
Turn the Shot Meter of the game ON/OFF.