# Blue Bloods Basketball — College Basketball Simulator

> In-depth college basketball team management and simulation game. (iPhone/iPad app by David Ferraro.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/blue-bloods-basketball/id1616736773 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [David Ferraro](https://appshunter.io/developer/1616736775)
- Category: Games, Sports, Simulation, Sports
- Price: Free
- Rating: 4.14/5 from 184 App Store ratings · 63 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 13.0 · 145 MB
- Languages: English
- Released: 2022-06-09
- Data updated: 2026-06-28
- Monetization: ad-supported
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/blue-bloods-basketball/id1616736773/reviews.md

## What is Blue Bloods Basketball?

Take control of your college basketball program in this in-depth sports simulation game. Control your team's strategy, tempo, rotation, and tendencies on the court while balancing in-season recruiting to build talent for future seasons and practices to develop your current squad. Battle for conference and championship titles against the storied college basketball programs in your quest to take your team from obscurity to Blue Blood!

## Key features

- Team strategy control
- Player rotation management
- In-season recruiting
- Player development practices
- Conference and championship battles

## What do users think of Blue Bloods Basketball?

Overall sentiment: positive

**Pros**

- 🎮 Highly addictive and engaging gameplay
- 👍 Realistic college basketball simulation
- 📊 Deep recruiting and player development system
- ⏰ Perfect for casual and extended play sessions
- 🏆 Well-balanced game mechanics
- 👥 Active developer with regular engagement
- 🎯 Authentic tournament experience
- 💪 Satisfying progression from low to blue blood programs

**Cons**

- 🐛 Frequent app crashes and stability issues
- 😤 Inconsistent difficulty - unexplained losses to inferior teams
- 🎮 Tedious player management and rotation system
- 📋 Bare-bones user interface lacking polish
- 🤔 Confusing position assignment and depth chart management
- ⏳ Repetitive annual setup tasks without reminders
- 🎲 Unrealistic player performance inconsistencies
- 💾 Corrupted save files causing progress loss
- 🔍 Delayed recruit ranking visibility (10 games in)

**Commonly reported bugs**

- App crashes on startup
- Crashes every 5 seconds during gameplay
- Freshman players skip a year upon commitment
- Corrupted save files
- Season history shows as unknown
- Automatic position assignment errors
- Recruiting ranking inconsistencies
- Practice system shows minimal impact on player ratings
- Recent update degraded game quality

**Most requested features**

- Transfer portal system
- Early draft declaration option
- Player draft tracking and BBGM integration
- Difficulty settings (Easy/Normal/Hard/Impossible)
- In-game play simulation with manual controls
- College football version
- NIL deals and modern features
- Create-a-player functionality
- Player position display in lineup menu
- Coaching staff customization
- Increased recruit limit (more than 3)
- Hall of fame and jersey retirement
- Assistant coach feedback and suggestions
- Live game summaries
- Team switching capability
- Summer foreign tours and in-season tournaments
- Player stats comparison tool
- School logo customization
- Character customization and upgrades
- Prestige system clarity
- Conference customization

## Recent user reviews (10 of 63)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/blue-bloods-basketball/id1616736773/reviews.md

### 5/5 — Best college basketball game

*2026-04-04, version 2.9.1*

Very fun game to play and is the perfect simulation for me, only thing I would change is to show if your players got drafted and where they went, so that way I could maybe run a different simulation in something like bbgm by importing these players, overall my favourite college basketball game.

### 5/5 — Perfect game?

*2026-02-26, version 2.9.1*

Fun game I can play for hours. I wish they would add a feature where you could sim in game buys that is. Almost perfect for a mobile game.

### 1/5 — Blue blood

*2025-11-11, version 2.9.1*

You should make it where there is different difficulties the easy mode is where you can see the players stars all season normal mode so when you scout the player you can see how many stars he has when you full scout all his rating and the hard level you don’t get to see any star just the there ratings then the impossible level where you can see ratings or stars only stats

### 4/5 — Love this game

*2025-07-25, version 2.9.1*

First of all—like the title says—I love this game; the recruitment, the stats, the real-life feel of it all. So much fun. 

I just wish it could be a little simpler/user friendly. It does feel pretty bare-bones. Functional, but not FUN-ctional, if you know what I mean. 

For example, every year you have to recruit, bring in freshmen, and then you’re supposed to set settings FOR EACH INDIVIDUAL PLAYER. It can be very tedious and there’s nothing to remind you. Half the time I forget!

Another thing I wish this game would do is tell you what you need most (goes back to being fun and user friendly). For example, let’s say your center is a senior and you power forward is a senior. You go after some bluechip guys—maybe 2 PFs and 1 center for simplicity. Let’s also say that the center goes somewhere else but you get the two PFs you wanted. Great. Except when the game automatically puts one of those PFs at your starting center spot. It becomes so much to manage that you don’t realize you need an ACTUAL CENTER, and this guy gets stuck at center when he’s undersized. It does make a difference and I wish there were features to fix it.

Other than those nitpicks, it’s a great game and I’ve killed hours making Indiana (Bloomington in-game) back into a Blue Blood!

### 4/5 — Great game

*2025-05-29, version 2.9.1*

I love this game have been playing it for a while now but they should make it easier to win the natty and win games cause it makes no sense that I have a 23-0 Duke team and I lose by 100 to Kent st and there was one season when I lost by 50+ points for 3 to 4 games in a row so I think they should make it easy to win the championship and win games

### 4/5 — Great game, but…

*2025-05-04, version 2.9.1*

I absolutely love this game. It’s very addictive and very fun. The only problem I have with this game is that when you get to the tournament, you all of the sudden lose to a bad team. I have some great teams, a 28-5 team and even a 30-3 team. But I lost in the second round of the conference tournament and the second round of the big tournament. It’s really annoying when you have a team like that and lose in the second round. The only thing I’d change is to make it a little easier to win a title.

### 5/5 — This is the best game ever I rate it a 5/5

*2025-04-17, version 2.9.1*

I like this game but it could be even better if we could play the game on the court with all of the players and play 20:00 minutes in the first half and 2nd half then it would be really fun to play

### 5/5 — Great game, however…

*2025-03-28, version 2.9.1*

Hello game devs, first I want to say this game is a 10/10. I’ve never been addicted to a game for so long like I have with this game. Needless to say you guys put the time and effort in for a great game and it shows. However, as much as I am impressed I could be even more amazed. We need either a new version of the game or more updates to better make the game more engaging overall. Come on devs I know you’re even more capable of producing a game that will blow us out the water even more. I need new features, more customization, more modern up to date things that college basketball has such as NIL deals but instead just have some kind of recognition showing this athlete has deals. Just a little extra to make the game more satisfying. Again this game is amazing if you read this game devs and even take into consideration any ideas I thank you.

### 5/5 — Game is good

*2025-03-22, version 2.9.1*

This game is actually amazing, please make a college football version

### 5/5 — Transfer Portal

*2025-03-21, version 2.9.1*

The game would be much better if there was a transfer portal in this game. It would be way more modern. Also players should be able to declare for the draft early. Pretty good game but those additions would make it great

## Frequently asked questions about Blue Bloods Basketball

### What is Blue Bloods Basketball?

Blue Bloods Basketball is a sports simulation game where you manage a college basketball program. You'll control team strategy, player rotations, and recruit new talent to build a championship-contending team.

### What are the key features of this game?

Key features include controlling your team's strategy, tempo, and rotations on the court. You can also manage in-season recruiting to find future stars and utilize practices to develop your current squad.

### How does the app make money?

The app is free to download and play, supported by advertisements. There are no in-app purchases or subscription fees required to enjoy the full game experience.

### What is the goal of the game?

The ultimate goal is to lead your college basketball team from obscurity to become a 'Blue Blood' program. This involves winning conference and national championships against other storied college teams.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 2.9.1 — 2025-02-17

Fixing various UI and theme issues.

### 2.9.0 — 2025-02-14

Added new conference tournament and main tournament preview pages to highlight teams place in the bracket.

Updated a lot of libraries and iOS target version.

### 2.8.3 — 2023-07-27

Upgraded third party package to fix bug that was re-prompting users that have already made a consent decision.

### 2.8.2 — 2023-07-24

Upgraded packages in preparation for next feature release
Minor bug fixes and efficiency improvements

### 2.7.0 — 2023-04-29

Added high school player awards, these will show on a players card when viewing them as college players and on:
At the same time star ratings come out towards the middle of the season, 24 top players are selected to the "Burger Boys" team.
Near the end of the season, 8 players are crowned as high school region PoY and an overall high school PoY.

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