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Mapping the NCAA Basketball Recruiting landscape

We at the The Daily Gopher have been interested in where recruits come from for some time. As some may recall, we previously delved into the curious lack of football recruits from our national parks. Today, we begin a series looking at men’s basketball recruits focusing on two questions: Where are players recruited from, and what are the biggest basketball cities in the country?

Our data from this series comes from 247Sports database of recruits. The database has a little over 10,000 recruits from 2003-2019. To this basic information, we have added location data for each hometown along with counties.