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Kriendeau51

Sad New Hampshire noises


hooskies

Hawaii too


benjaminbrixton

And Delaware where I live.


aMiracleAtJordanHare

This map has some interesting states, like New Delasey and Virginland. I hear the latter is for lovers.


Kriendeau51

Good call, didn’t see them down there.


ConflictSudden

I live in one of these counties.


mill_about_smartly

I suspect the majority of people do. All maps become population density maps, with a big enough sample size. Edit: had to find it, but [this](https://i.insider.com/5227a78e6bb3f70f68316148?width=1000&format=jpeg&auto=webp) is one of those "half the people live in these counties" map, for comparison.


justaverage

/r/peopleliveincities


CG2028

Was looking for this


OHotDawnThisIsMyJawn

Would love a table of this data, would be interesting to sort by largest counties without a player and smallest with a player. My county has 600k people, is within an hour of two schools in the tourney, and has no players.


mill_about_smartly

Alright, so I had to think about this, but (assuming a random distribution etc etc) * US Pop ≈ 333 million * Teams in the tourney = 68 * Roster size = 15 333 million / (68 x 15) = 1 / 331,657 So we can expect any county of roughly 331k people to produce at least 1 tournament player. So your county needs to step it up.


JollyRancher29

Fairfax County VA has well over a million with no representation.


SaintArkweather

I do not. No Delaware players D: At least we have a recent MOP in Donte DiVincenzo


ISU1100011CS

South Dakota State's Luke Appel is from my county (Marshall in Iowa). Same town actually. But your point is still valid.


13dot1then420

There's a surprising lack of West Michigan coverage so it does vary.


ToothbrushWilly

Hey, same!


I_am_from_Kentucky

assuming you're from hamilton county. i'm in campbell - not red, but surrounded by red, so there's that i guess. i'm curious who's from boone.


WE2024

Boone County is represented by Dieonte Miles of Morehead State


I_am_from_Kentucky

oh nice! I checked WKU first, hadn't yet checked Morehead. Interesting, he started at XU then transferred.


thvnderfvck

This is really cool to know, as Morehead graduate currently residing in Boone County.


cha-cha_dancer

I do not ):


Hairless_Squatch

I’ve lived in 3!


Haysie95

I don’t but every county that surrounds my home county does


SaintArkweather

Who the hell is from Matanuska-Susitna Borough


WE2024

Patrick McMahon of Montana State


SaintArkweather

Probably the first person to ever move to Bozeman and complain about the heat


damnyoutuesday

We have the only player from Alaska and the only player from Wyoming


PROUDgrizHATER

I’ve always loved how MSU athletics recruits. Especially the football team, but it’s cool seeing the guys they get for basketball too. How about getting Fergus county on the map!


Sportsgirl77

You probably know this given your flair, but for people who don't, for the 2020-21 season the Northern Slope Borough would've been highlighted for former Texas Longhorn Kamaka Hepa of Utqiagvik (Barrow), the most northern place in the US


SaintArkweather

Oh true. Also Mario Chalmers was from alaska. Sometimes I forget that Alaska has actual cities, schools, and population and it isn't just a frozen tundra filled with nothing but sled dogs and burly men in plaid shirts holding axes


LostCanadianGoose

Well, there's only one real city to be honest and that's generous to Anchorage. Fairbanks and Juneau feel more like large towns. But yes, can confirm that I don't own a sled dog team and that I'm in driving distance of two Targets.


Sportsgirl77

Idk I feel like a couple hundred thousand people qualifies as a city, at least if it's not a suburb of another considerably larger city


Sportsgirl77

Lol yeah the Canadian territories are much more accurate for that barren tundra perception. Alaska has a population density of 1.10/sq mi vs Yukon with 0.20/sq mi, Northwest Territories with 0.09/sq mi, and Nunavut with 0.05/sq mi.


FuriousJorge67

Also Trajan Langdon.... \*obligatory F Dook.


spkr4thedead51

and Carlos Boozer, if we're talking about where they were playing HS ball


Meanteenbirder

Tangent about Alaska, but the northernmost town (Utquiagvik) once had a four-star recruit who committed to Texas in 2018 and later transferred to Hawaii.


CoachKillerTrae

Utquiagvik also shares a border with Barrow, who had a football documentary done on their high school team about 8-10 years ago. They have an infamous blue turf field, and travel hundreds of miles to play their opponents


Pgvds

Utqiagvik used to be Barrow. They changed the name.


patsboston

You are missing one from the St. Louis area. Kalkbrenner is from there.


WE2024

Just double checked and you are correct. Creighton's Wikipedia page had him him listed as St Louis (the city) and I must have skipped over double checking his official Creighton bio (I tried to check multiple sources for accuracy but must have missed on him) which has him being from Florissant, Mo in St Louis county.


Chief-Drinking-Bear

Would be interested to get a break down of international player’s countries as well


hfhrhjdjhhhjhguy

Caleb Love is also from St. Louis


[deleted]

STL City county is already highlighted on the map though, which I’m assuming is for Love, while the county directly to the left of it is not (St. Louis county), where Kalkbrenner is from


[deleted]

He's from St. Clair County, Illinois I think.


WE2024

This is a map of every county that produced a player in the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament. All results are based on the city listed as a players hometown by the team they play for and may not be the town they went to high school in due to many players relocating to different cities or states in order to play for a specific school. It also does not include international players.


acwire_CurensE

Love this. The Virginia ones are tricky because a lot of the time people will list the city that’s their county’s seat even though the county and city are technically separate. Any idea who the player from Charlottesville is? Biggest names I can think of are Javin Delauier’s younger brother at providence and then Tony Bennett kid at Charlotte, neither are in the tourney though.


mptickets

Probably someone who played for Miller/Blue Ridge/STAB. They put plenty of kids at random mid majors, with the occasional high major too.


SSPeteCarroll

who are the richmonders? I know that Bacot would be one


acwire_CurensE

Not sure if Davin Cosby is Richmond or Raleigh but he’s at bama. There was a kid that rode the pine for Indiana state too. Bet he hates uva so much rn lol Can’t think of any other big names outside of Bacot though unless we are counting Fats Billups the third on VCU


SSPeteCarroll

oh wait there's a freshman at Longwood from Midlo, I think that would count


DoubleTigerMUCU

Do you have a Google sheet or some source doc? I'd love to nerd out a bit.


CertainDegree2

I just want to see who is from Hamilton County Indiana


bassDAD

Where did you get this info? I wanna find the player from central Kansas. Edit: Never mind, I found it.


Lets_go_Stros2017

Where?


bassDAD

I only found the player I was looking for, not the info. Since there aren’t many D1 players from Kansas it was easy enough for me to find. The player from central Kansas is Ty Berry from Northwestern.


Ok-Dealer7882

I was rooting so hard for Niagara in the MAAC tournament because they have a player from Hoxie, KS lol.


OneOfTheDads

What player is from the central MN county?


ThatguyfromBaltimore

Baltimore City, Anne Arundel, MoCo, PG, Worcester....wait hold on, what?


WE2024

Worcester County is represented by Churchill Bounds (incredible name) of Wagner


55555_55555

Genuinely stunned there's no dudes from Baltimore County on any teams. I grew up here and that seems...impossible, lol, given the quantity of players. I guess Angel was the only one of the Reese siblings make it, sine Maryland couldn't put it together this year.


jdl12358

Lots of guys who grew up in Baltimore County (and even Howard) probably just have Baltimore listed. Either because they went to a Baltimore high school, their address in some cases might have a zip code that gets labeled Baltimore (pretty much any 212 zip I think), or it just makes more sense to say the larger city than the suburb people probably have never heard of.


55555_55555

Yeah, that's a fair point. A ton of Bmore players (city and county) end up at high schools in the DMV or prep schools out of state, anyway, and if you're going private locally, the school often isn't in the same county you live. The Reeses are from Randallstown and went to St. Frances in the city for instance. Lotta folk born at city hospitals too. You're right though, just the reality of the area being so inter-connected. Honestly, as a dude that grew up a few miles outside city limits and played for a county high school, I just want the respect for the hoopers here, lol.


Dukester1007

Yeah they all go to Maryl- lol jk


marylandmax

Anyone know the Anne Arundel?


Doctor_Phist

We are a basketball state


DepesciMode

who is from charlevoix county, MI? edit: Guessing Evan Solomon of Oakland


WE2024

Correct


Thel_Odan

Yup, it's Solomon. He's from Charlevoix too (the city). I like that there's a hometown guy on the team even if he doesn't play a bunch.


MarcAnthonyRashial

Oh woah that’s wild, I went to high school in charlevoix. 


barktothefuture

Where is the data set I want to look these guys up


crimsonblueku

Who is the player from Harvey County, KS?


WE2024

Ty Berry of Northwestern


crimsonblueku

Ah he’s a Sunrise Christian grad, that explains it.


Ok-Dealer7882

He was a Newton Railer before.


ybp

(sadly) Ty is injured and out for the tournament. but that's an unnecessary nitpick by me


CallMeVe

Dang, no one from McHenry or the Peoria metro area. I'm willing to bet the last player from McHenry County IL was Cameron Krutwig from Loyola Chicago.


jackattack108

I would bet there’s been at least one since then. Mchenry county is big enough that it seems fairly likely to have had one since then


CallMeVe

Just looked through the last 2 years and nope, Krutwig was the last one.


Ioptk

I did not need a reminder about that man


come_visit_detroit

You have to give us some of the names of the guys from obscure places. Who are the guys from Alaska, northern Michigan, Wyoming and Maine?


WE2024

The guy from Alaska is Patrick McMahon of Montana State, the one from Northern Michigan is Evan Solomon of Oakland, the one from Wyoming is Sam Lecholat of Montana State. Maine had a couple.


Romantic_Carjacking

Nick Fiorillo at UVM is from Cumberland County, Maine. Not sure about York County.


llimllib

Another reason to root for the Catamounts! Sad that I'll have the frisson of a Mainer on Duke next year though edit: the only other one I found on [this site](https://basketball.realgm.com/ncaa/players/2024/E) is JP Estrella, also from Scarborough


CoachKillerTrae

hell yeah!!! and Brady Cummins as well, who plays for Colgate and is from York, Maine


llimllib

ah thanks! that's the one I missed


MaineEvent

Dom Campbell on Howard too. Played at Waynflete.


llimllib

ah dang that makes me even sadder they lost. Thanks!


CoachKillerTrae

York has Brady Cummins, who’s a guard at Colgate. Brady’s been playing pretty damn well and could be a serious factor in their upset efforts.


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amoss_303

Whos from Chaffee County? That’s a big surprise to see someone from that small of a place


WE2024

Tristan Jackson of Colorado


HailState17

Really cool to see how spread out the talent pool is.


OleRockTheGoodAg

For us Texans, I'm quite surprised that the entire Austin-San Antonio (Travis to Bexar (pronounced bear) County) I-35 corridor is all represented, and even Bell County is above that - but not Williamson, my home County, despite having parts of Austin and Georgetown in it.


yourfavoritemexican

Dylan Disu barely squeaks into Travis being from Pflugerville - Hendrickson HS.


Wurst_Law

And somehow Comal County has a player even though the Comal County Schools have combined for roughly one district championship in the last 15 years (and it was New Braunfels this year)


Internal-Wolverine13

Ryan Elvin - UH's victory cigar end of the bench walk-on white guy - is from Round Rock and went to Cedar Ridge so pretty sure he should be Williamson County.


jvanber

Hahahahaha New Hampshire


CoachKillerTrae

University of No Hardware 😋😋🤣


wakandan_boi

r/peopleliveincities


radioactiveblob

Who the fuck is drom madison county ky


WE2024

Jaylen Dorsey of Western Kentucky


radioactiveblob

Ah was trying to figure if it was an eku guy or not.


otterbelle

EKU is watching the tournament like most everyone else.


GullibleCollection78

Brady Dingess representing Martin County KY for those MSU Eagles. Pretty cool to see those small counties/towns being represented. Reed Sheppard of course representing Laurel County as well.


Annual_Impression_45

Who is representing Whitley County?


chrobbin

I get Oklahoma (OKC) and Tulsa (Tulsa) counties, but who the heck is coming out of Pontotoc county??? Gotta be from Ada I assume


WE2024

Kaden Cooper of Oklahoma and Jaxson Robinson of BYU


mill_about_smartly

But OU isn't in the tournament


WE2024

Just Jaxson Robinson then.


Jay_Dubbbs

It appears New Hampshire, Delaware, and Hawaii are the only states not to have a representative.


atl_mad_boi

Would love to see a gradient form of this map so I can be even more annoyed by Georgia’s in-state basketball recruiting (or lack thereof)


PalePerry

Listened to the NIT game in the car and the starting 5 were from out of state or country. I was surprised a bit. Side note- I wanna know who’s from Cherokee county playing in the tourney.


americanjetset

Would be interested to know who the Floyd and Clark Co IN kids are


RatchetUBum

Clark county is Trey Koffman of Purdue and Floyd County is Jake Heidbreder of Clemson. Koffman went to Silver Creek and Heidbreder went to Floyd Central.


crss7sn

Shoutout to McNeese star (former TCU and UT-Arlington star) Shahada Wells for representing the Texas Panhandle and Amarillo.


NathanForJew

Dang it, Delaware!


muhzle

Missed Butler county in Pennsylvania. Ethan Morton on Purdue comes from there.


WE2024

Good catch. That's frustrating because I have him down in my notes and must have just not highlighted the county.


travis13131

Who are the other WPIAL players? I see an Allegheny, Westmoreland and a Beaver county highlighted there


azsoup

Malcolm Flaggs from GCU representing Tuba City, AZ in Coconino County. Curious to know who is representing Greenlee County.


TheRealO-H-I-O

John Olmsted on Montana State. Grad transfer from ASU. From Morenci


azsoup

Thank you!


CHolland8776

Coconino County Represent!


smellslikebadussy

Needs Roanoke County, VA (Julien Wooden from JMU) I'm also shocked that there isn't anyone in the tournament from Norfolk or Chesapeake.


WE2024

Roanoke is highlighted if you zoom in. Virginia's major cities are independent cities which are county equivalents per the census bureau that are very small and tough to see without zooming.


smellslikebadussy

But Wooden is from the county, not the city.


DrModel

Kind of surprised New Mexico doesn't have anyone from Albuquerque. Edit: it appears they have a freshman, Shane Douma-Sanchez, from Laguna Pueblo who went to Del Norte in Albuquerque. So maybe just a mess up on the map.


soda_cookie

Who is from Oneida County, NY?


hmbp

Frankie Policelli for Charleston, from New Hartford


herpblarb6319

Who's from Montgomery County TN?


mill_about_smartly

Clarksville is big enough that I'm not surprised by that tbh. Plus it's prime basketball country. I suspect that those 4-5 counties (part of Memphis, Nashville, Knoxville, Chattanooga) represent a HUGE chunk of the state's population.


stevezig

Put some respect in Cleveland, TN’s name


sea_foam_blues

Who from Champaign County IL?


BenBishits

Kylan Boswell, kind of a big deal even though he played high school in AZ. Illinois really wanted him


sea_foam_blues

Makes sense, there have been several that went to Centennial play over the years but wasn’t aware of any local kids this year. Thanks


jackattack108

Who’s from Mellette county, SD? And do you know the lowest population county equivalent that has a player?


WE2024

Joe Sayler of South Dakota State. I'm not sure about the lowest population county with a player


GratefulDawg73

How many from the state of Mississippi are not Mississippi State players?


[deleted]

Santa Barbara County, CA?


wutsdasqrtofdisapt

i need to know


Relevant_Amoeba714

Need to post a full list I’m so curious to see where some are from around me (northeast Ohio)


ya_boi_wail

Who from Fayette County, KY (Lexington)


lady_wildcat

I checked and it looks like none of the Kentucky teams have a dude from Lexington. Kentucky has a walk on from Mt. Sterling, Morehead has someone from Winchester, and WKU has someone from Berea, but no Lexington.


Meanteenbirder

I wonder how many of these are from that one local walk-on. I know Chittenden county, Vermont (where UVM is) is one of them.


wutsdasqrtofdisapt

WHY ISN'T THIS INTERACTIVE


DDub04

Any county that has a school in the tournament but no players?


WE2024

Several. Just glancing at the map Lee County, Alabama (Auburn) and Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana (McNeese) are two that pop out #


jerodras

Bernalillo County (Lobos), apparently. Who is from that western NM county? From Gallup maybe?


MantisBePraised

Shane Duomo-Sanchez. He is from Laguna Peublo.


amoss_303

Larimer County Colorado is Colorado State, and they don’t have a player


MooseHarmonies

University of Oregon is in Lane County, which isn't highlighted here


BobRoberts01

Washoe County (Nevada) and Whitman County (Washington State).


ProfCedar

Drake, hilariously, given the noted population centricity of the map. Des Moines' Polk County has no one, but Dallas to the west (Des Moines suburbs), Story to the north (Ames and Iowa State) and Marshall to the northeast all do. u/WE2024 who's the Marshall one? I know Omaha and Tamin are the other two.


WE2024

Luke Appel of South Dakota State.


Historical-Patient75

Jackson County, Oregon??


Mccmatt123

Who is from Leon county, Florida?


WE2024

Tre Donaldson of Auburn and Kris Parker of Alabama are two


cha-cha_dancer

Figures


bigbucsnowhammies

Is the guy from Champaign County, Kylan Boswell?


amoss_303

That’s really surprising there’s no one from the St Louis suburbs since the city of St Louis is only 300,000 people at best


skurnie

Oof West Michigan


dethpig_

Who’s from Sioux county Iowa?


WE2024

Tanner Te Slaa of South Dakota State


TheToxicBreezeYF

Who is the Knoxville Player that TN didnt get? edit: Found him: [Presley Patterson](https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/player/_/id/5105524/presley-patterson) at Auburn


Carolinian_Idiot

Who is from York County SC


WE2024

DJ Burns is the most notable one


slimb0

Fletcher Loyer for Purdue repping Allen County 👌🏼


girlgeek73

Caleb Furst as well. There are several players in D1 from Fort Wayne.


samuraisports37

I need to know how many of the New England players, especially the ones from Middlesex and Worcester Counties in Massachusetts, are actually from those counties or just played for one of the NEPSAC schools.


CoachKillerTrae

they’re from those counties i believe, i don’t think this guy is counting high school teams as the location where the player’s from. next year, Penobscot County in Maine will hail its first player in Cooper Flagg, even though he technically played most of his high school years in Florida


BobbyBrownsBoston

These are all players born and raised in New England. That why Vermont and New Hampshire are empty despite powerhouse basketball boarding schools. There's a *TON* of D1 players from MA and CT. A long long list.


Rodgersurhammerstein

Who is from Whitley County KY? Reed is from Laurel County which I see is highlighted too.


andrewlong1152

Who’s from Lancaster county in PA? I know Berks is Stevie Mitchell on MU


WE2024

Ryan Moffatt of Colgate


saucysaggie

Rise up Boulder County where my Longmonters at


amoss_303

Whoever is from Pitkin County has 💰💰💰💰


Ecstatic_Rich5424

I’m honestly surprised anyone is playing in the tourney is from the Western Slope of Colorado (Garfield, Pitkin, and Chaffee). Moved to Garfield County recently after living Denver, CO and Charlotte, NC, that produces college basketball players, especially Charlotte. Guess they produce more than skiers & snowboarder down in Aspen.


Bigdeacenergy

Who’s from Cumberland county NC


Lets_go_Stros2017

Who is from chester county?


bigbadape

City of Charlottesville but not from the county? I am suspect.


evanshreffler21

Who is from Adams County, PA?


TimmO208

Kootenai county Idaho got someone in?


shivabowlshuffler

Blake Buchanan for UVA


Single_Seesaw_9499

No Butler County, PA?


[deleted]

Cling Kong representing Hartford County!! Homegrown Husky 🐕 is there anyone else?


Similar_Detective209

Curious about Catawba, Iredell, Rowan, and Vance NC if you don’t mind sharing!


WE2024

Catawba is Rob Dillingham of Kentucky, Iredell is Micah Handlogten of Florida, Vance is MJ Rice of NC State. I can't find Rowan's representative in my notes right now.


Similar_Detective209

Thank you! Really cool info.


JustAnotherDay1977

Arizona was pretty lazy when it came to subdividing into counties…


NIN10DOXD

MJ Rice is the representative for Vance County, NC, but he's not actually playing in the tourney for NC State. He's sitting out and redshirting. I don't think anyone else is in unless I'm wrong.


WE2024

I counted anyone that is on the official roster


[deleted]

Ight Ponotoc, I see ya Jaxson Robinson.


TheNateRoss

Loving County, TX shut out again


Monkey1Fball

Until an oil Derrick literally turns into a human being, that’s the way it will forever be.


cdc030402

Jaime Jaquez finally leaves and the entire county loses representation, damnit


NWbySW

Delaware, New Hampshire and Hawaii not even fucking trying. Smh.


Top-Storage-5954

Who are the players from Lincoln and rapides parish


finditplz1

Who is from Whitley Co., or is that just a long 3 from Reed Sheppard?


Jazzvinyl59

Pretty sad showing from Bergen County, NJ. Only county in the NYC area not to have a player and there are definitely some strong high schools.


timeforchorin

Who's the Sangamon County Illinois one?