Any sports trivia folks out there? Have there ever been three teams in the NCAA tournament in such close geographic proximity? Syracuse, Cornell, and Binghamton?
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What’s the distance? When Purdue which is 70 miles from Butler which is 50 miles from Indiana all three go to the dance, that’s pretty close. One year I think Butler and IUPUI which are 5 miles apart and IU and Purdue all went. That’s pretty close, too.
But this IS Indiana, and we know our basketball!
Yeah Carol. I forgot about Indiana. How could I do that? I was thinking that maybe North Carolina or a metro area (Philly, NYC) would have had more or closer schools one year.
Binghamton to Syracuse is about 70 miles. Ithaca is kind of in between.
I know you Hoosiers are serious about your hoops. I remember driving into a small Indy city back in the ’80s (might have been Logansport) and literally every driveway had a hoop and a larger percentage of them with glass backboards.
My father, b. 1914 in Paris, Kentucky, resident of Louisville since 1952, says, “In this state, a ‘sex pervert’ is anyone who prefers sex to basketball.”
Go CARDS!
🙂 Here in Kentucky (where we are last in so many important things) we are often first in college basketball. We currently have 3 teams in the NCAA ( Louisville, Morehead State, And WKU) and one in the NIT (UK). We have had as many as 4 teams in the NCAA tournament.
Go Toppers!!!
BBall obsessed husband rolls his eyes & says “this happens allll the time.” Thinks Duke, UNC, Wake Forest are closer. Google maps showing a very similar triangulate to the upstate schools. Now says, “alright, so I was a little off, but not by much.”
Note that KU basketball is the reason we even have cable…