Basketball Madness Has College Towns Buzzing

1. University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama
2. University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
3. University of California – Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, California
4. University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, California
5. University of Connecticut (UConn), Storrs (census designated place or CDP), Connecticut
6. University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida
7. University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois
8. Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
9. Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
10. Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
11. Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa
12. University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
13. University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland
14. Mississippi State University, Mississippi State (CDP), Mississippi
15. Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska
16. Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
17. Iona College, New Rochelle, New York
18. Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
19. North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina
20. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee
21. University of Texas – Austin, Austin, Texas
22. Baylor University, Waco, Texas
23. University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont
24. Gonzaga University, Spokane, Washington
25. West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia
26. Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

• University of Alabama
• Purdue University
• University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
• University of Houston, Houston, Texas

• Stanford University, Stanford (CDP), California
• Indiana University
• University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina
• Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia

Here’s a handy data-finding tip for all D1 basketball college towns: locate each school’s home city and state on this list and check out their profiles at data.census.gov/profile.

• Among the Associated Press (AP) Top 25 men’s and women’s teams, eight are from colleges on both lists: UCLA, Texas, Arizona, Gonzaga, UConn, Tennessee, Indiana, and Duke.
• The state with the most men’s teams this year? Texas with seven: Baylor, Houston, TCU, Texas, Texas A&M, Texas A&M-CC and Texas Southern.
• The eight men’s First Four teams: Arizona State; Fairleigh Dickinson (New Jersey); Mississippi State; University of Nevada; University of Pittsburg; Southeast Missouri State; Texas A&M-Corpus Christi; and Texas Southern University.
• The eight women’s teams in the First Four: Illinois; Mississippi State; Monmouth College (New Jersey); Purdue; Sacred Heart; Southern; St. Johns; and Tennessee Tech.
• Mississippi State’s men’s and women’s teams are both in the First Four.
• University of Illinois’s men’s team earned #9 seed in the West Region of March Madness and its women’s team made the First Four.
• Purdue’s men are a #1 seed, while Purdue women made the First Four team.