A typical NCAA game is loud, with chants, cheers, and fight songs. A rivalry game, like a matchup between Duke and North Carolina or Kansas and Kentucky, can be a deafening, passionate atmosphere, unlike anything else in sports. Sadly, NCAA Final Four 2000 does a miserable job capturing the sound of college hoops. The crowds are mostly a low murmur in the background, with some occasional surges of noise after a big shot. The crowd does chant from time to time, but it sounds too muted in the background.
Nothing really sounds intense or loud.
The game does have college fight songs, but many are missing from the game. I tried both of my alma maters, Northwestern and North Carolina, and neither had the correct fight song. The music plays mainly during time outs, however, and doesn't add to the arena atmosphere. Quinn Buckner does the announcing, but just seems to make little comments here and there. His reactions quickly become repetitive.