Street cred? We have to have street cred to have opinions now? The whole idea of this is to get people's opinions. You've had 30+ year old males on here who have played sports games since the 80s saying they love CHoops. Not sure how you get street cred, I guess it's something handed out by you.
That's TJs opinion, good for him! CHoops is where 2K tests all of it's worthwhile features before dumping them into NBA, the game is deeper IMO and plays better all around.
I have never been able to go 4+ months without switching games at some point, and that's what I've done with CHoops. I am partial to football games, and the BBall games generally bore me, but CHoops is so deep I'm not even feeling it yet.
Are you just upset because you seeded the game poorly? If you made it a 4-seed would this be a problem?
I'm sorry that people ruined the tourney by stuffing the ballot (if they did do this), but you opened the whole thing to the public, and you can't complain because it doesn't go how you planned when you drew up the brackets at home.