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Message: [QUOTE="triaddukefan, post: 2246326, member: 378"] I could be off base but here is what I think. With the exception of a handful of schools...... Duke, TN, UCONN, and a few others..... most rosters on teams are made up of players from the region where they are located. Just looking at the top 100 players... most tend to come from either California, Texas....the South and the East Coast. Not so much the Midwest, except for Illinois (Chicagoland). This works out well for the SEC and the ACC. A talented player from say...... Georgia, Florida, Virginia may choose to leave their state.... but its an easier sell for them to spend their time in a Raleigh, Charlottesville, Tallahasee, Miami, than Iowa City, Minneapolis, East Lansing, Champaign... et al. Even with the talent in the midwest..... you have poachers like UCONN, Duke, et al ... coming in an cherry picking. How many players at Minnesota, Nebraska or Michigan are from the South/East? Cant be that many. [/QUOTE]