The NCAA Tournament committee tried this year, West Coast. The release of this year’s March Madness brackets had everyone bemoaning the overseeded Pac-12 Conference’s fortunes, especially the Big Ten Conference loyalists.
Alas, the trend continued: No school west of Oklahoma has made a Final Four since UCLA in 2008. That's eight years — 32 semifinalists! — of domination by the eastern half of the country, mostly the upper half. Tough to call that East Coast bias.
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Seeing it on a map makes it even harder to believe:
To recap, those blue states are:
- Six times: Kentucky.