Planned Release Date: Q4 2026

About This Game

Build a program worth hanging banners for.

Brackets & Banners is a single-player college basketball coaching simulation set in a fictional world of 365 programs. Take your first job, recruit players you believe in, and build a team capable of making a tournament run. Then return next season and build on what you started.

Coach as deeply as you want.

Choose your starting five, manage your rotation, and set a gameplan that fits your roster. Make decisions yourself, review your staff’s recommendations, or delegate the work you want them to handle. Stay involved in the parts you enjoy while your staff keeps things moving.

Find the player who changes your program.

Scout prospects, pursue recruits, and decide how to spend your staff’s limited time. Fill an immediate need or invest in a player for the future. Every recruiting class helps shape the team you’ll coach next season.

Make your run.

Push the tempo, grind opponents down with defense, or build your offense around a star. Simulate matchups and use player performances and postgame breakdowns to understand what decided the game. Navigate conference play, fight for a tournament berth, and see how far your team can go when elimination is one loss away.

Give your seasons a history.

Players graduate. New recruits arrive. Another season brings another chance. Follow your career through season recaps, program records, and the banners you earn along the way.

Retro-inspired presentation brings the character of college basketball broadcasts and athletic department yearbooks to your coaching career. Build a program whose players, seasons, and biggest wins you’ll remember.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

Artwork: The player and coach portraits, team logos, and parts of the store artwork were created with AI image generation. Each one was directed, reviewed, and corrected by me, and many were rejected or redone along the way. I used coding assistants to help write and test the game's code and interface, under my direction.