The Lion King
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Posts: 394
Reg: 11-21-04
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02-04-06 05:43 PM - Post#14647
based on hometowns as listed on this site, and subject to my usual arithmetical errors, typos, etc. . . .
HOME STATES OF IVY LEAGUE MEN'S BASKETBALL PLAYERS
California -- 17
New York, New Jersey -- 8
Ohio, Pennsylvania -- 7
North Carolina, Connecticut, Massachusetts -- 5
Maryland, Illinois -- 4
Texas, Washington, Indiana, South Carolina -- 3
Oregon, Michigan, Tennessee, Kansas, Arizona, District of Columbia, Missouri -- 2
Georgia, Iowa, Florida, Rhode Island, Virginia, New Hampshire, Utah, New Mexico, Kentucky, Delaware, Wisconsin -- 1
Maine, Vermont, Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, West Virginia, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Colorado, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Alaska, Hawaii, Nevada -- 0
Canada -- 4
Japan, Serbia, Nigeria, New Zealand, Mozambique, Cameroon -- 1
For those who care about such things, in the 2004 election, the states with at least one Ivy League player gave 214 electoral votes to Kerry and 210 to Bush. Those with no Ivy players gave 38 to Kerry and 76 to Bush. If you change the threshold to at least two players, then the yeses are Kerry 192, Bush 130, and the noes are Kerry 60, Bush 156.
IVY LEAGUE MEN'S TEAMS RANKED BY THE NUMBER OF PLAYERS ON THEIR ROSTER FROM THE SCHOOL'S HOME STATE
Penn -- 5
Harvard -- 3
Princeton -- 2
Yale -- 2
Columbia -- 2
Brown -- 1
Cornell -- 0
Dartmouth -- 0
Looks like the secret to success is to recruit from your home state--maybe that's why Dartmouth is always so lousy.
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