BLOOMINGTON—The annual NCAA Tournament, otherwise known as March Madness, is here, and excitement is building over the biggest college basketball prize.
Plenty of colleges will be fighting to be national champions, but which city has produced the best teams across the country over the years?
To find out, Vegas Insider analyzed each college, ranking each of them based on statistics like their number of March Madness appearances, average game attendance figures, and popularity online.
These stats scored each city out of 10, with the highest-scoring areas taking the top spots on our list.
Bloomington ranked 10th in the list of the best spots for college basketball in America with a score of 2.77/10.
Of their 41 appearances in March Madness tournaments, Bloomington’s Indiana Hoosiers have taken home five NCAA Championships, tying with the Duke Blue Devils as the fifth most successful team in the tournament’s history.
The Hoosiers give Bloomington an average attendance of 16,939 fans per game, the third-highest figure of any city in our rankings. The city’s online rankings bring its score down, though, with a below-average search volume of 10,780 queries in 12 months and 79,760 social media mentions in the same time.
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