This is kind of cool: a map of all the NCAA men’s basketball tournament winners. If you click on one of the balloons it will show you the winner, the location of the team they beat and the venue where the game was played.
North Carolina has three schools represented and there are more schools east of the Mississippi than west of the big river. Without UCLA’s run of championships in the 60s-70s you’d also see a much heavier tilt to the east in overall number of championships as well. Interestingly Virginia doesn’t have a representative but there’s still hope this year with George Mason still in the hunt. Have I mentioned recently that I’m a GMU graduate?
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Interesting that they only used the first championship for each school. Of course, clicking on UCLA would have been pretty tough otherwise.
Good point. Now that my alma mater is in the Final Four there’s actually a chance that a VA school could get on the map. BTW, I’m using every opportunity I can to tout GMU and the fact that I went there as did my wife, my brother and many of my closest friends. Who’d have thought I’d ever have basketball bragging rights in my own family (Wake, NC State and UNC grads)? I’m gonna enjoy it because who knows if it will ever happen again!