Comments on: Where is the Capital of College Basketball?

By: Louisa Driver

Louisa Driver — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 22:18:28 +0000

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By: George

George — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 18:18:26 +0000

I spent years scouting colleges, perusing for talent. Since talent was a big factor, one of the real hotspots was the Raleigh-Durham area, not just for the ACC teams there but for other smaller colleges in North Carolina. While Wake, Duke, UNC, N.C. State are well within an hour of each other, there are many others within an easy drive. UNC Charlotte, Davidson, East Carolina, UNC Wilmington, UNC Greensboro, Applachian St, UNC Ashville to name a few.
Of course, my favorite area was Las Vegas.
There you had UNLV, and other talent venues like Mandalay Bay, Caesar’s, Bellagio, Harrah’s, Paris, NY NY, MGM Grand, all within walking distance. In fact, it was amazing how often I would see UNLV players at the local venues during the Tark era. Not surprisingly you would see NBA scouts spending many a weekend there. I often wondered if some scouts recruited for UNLV so they had an excuse to go there.

By: cole

cole — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 03:39:27 +0000

And don’t forget the Bay Area: Stanford, Cal, St. Mary’s*, USF, San Jose St (woo), and Santa Clara… home of the best big man you’ve never heard of, John Bryant.

* St. Mary’s is actually a college that inherited its buildings and grounds from some kind of all-ages agriculture-based summer camp. Yay Gaels.

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College Hoops Capital | Green Taxi — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 08:21:55 +0000

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By: cole

cole — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 04:21:28 +0000

LA has the most teams to choose from, plus a good mix of skill levels. And you’re guaranteed to be able to get a ticket with all the fashionable fairweathers down there.

Boston has BC, UMass, Northeastern, Boston U., Providence (RI), and Rhode Island within an hour. But they are disqualified by the fact that the Boston Globe listed one of the top freshman in the country as “Demar Rosen” in today’s NCAA Preview section. Insert your Fletch joke here. Nothing like taking an African-American kid from Compton and giving him a traditional Jewish last name… for no real reason at all.

What east coast bias?

If you expanded the boundaries to 100 miles, you’d have to include Cincinnati… Cincy, Xavier, Ohio State, Louisville, Dayton, Kentucky, Indiana and “the Purdue” (as Rudy would say).