Can you name the cities that have hosted 30 or more NCAA basketball tournament games?

# of games	city	state
123		Missouri
86		Utah
84		Ohio
83		North Carolina
83		Indiana
77		Georgia
77		Kentucky
74		Pennsylvania
67		New York
58		North Carolina
54		North Carolina
53		Arizona
52		Idaho
51		Kentucky
50		Texas
48		California
47		Washington
46		Louisiana

# of games	city	state
46		Minnesota
45		Missouri
43		Alabama
42		New York
42		Tennessee
41		Rhode Island
40		Maryland
39		New Jersey
38		New Mexico
38		Kansas
37		Texas
36		Oregon
35		Oklahoma
34		Wisconsin
33		Illinois
30		Colorado
30		California
30		Kansas

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NCAA Tournament Cities Quiz

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Created by: jonesjeffum -
Contributed: March 15th, 2010
Published: March 16th, 2010
Category: Geography
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Tags: NCAA Quizzes, City Quizzes, State Quizzes, host, hosted, tournament, College Basketball

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	jonesjeffum:	Mar 16th, 2010 at 19:18 GMT	16 points
	dear sporcle, i dont understand why this was placed under geography and not sports thanks...

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	jorgeb91:	Mar 16th, 2010 at 19:41 GMT	0 points
	did the games that took place in nassau coliseum (uniondale) count in the new york city #?

	jonesjeffum:	Mar 16th, 2010 at 19:49 GMT	3 points
	no they didnt Uniondale had only 16 NCAA Tournament games

	Magna:	Mar 16th, 2010 at 19:57 GMT	12 points
	i love march madness

	Wigs:	Mar 16th, 2010 at 20:02 GMT	1 point
	accept NYC for New York

	bugsnnuts:	Mar 16th, 2010 at 20:06 GMT	-2 points
	Who's winning it all this year? Hard to not go with Kansas or Kentucky I think. Bring on the madness. Great quiz by the way.

	jessbowen:	Mar 16th, 2010 at 20:49 GMT	11 points
	It's kinda hard to believe that not a single Florida city makes the list. wow.

	jonesjeffum:	Mar 16th, 2010 at 20:57 GMT	5 points
	Orlando had 24 games and Tampa had 16 games

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	irishboy89:	Mar 16th, 2010 at 21:31 GMT	11 points
	@Camden Kansas City is in Missouri, and I'm pretty sure Kansas cant touch UCLA or Indiana's history.

	mjs58:	Mar 16th, 2010 at 21:38 GMT	2 points
	Also Camden, consider these numbers for the state of North Carolina: games hosted in Top 3 cities - 195 (doesn't count Winston Salem!). National Championships - 10 (NCSU, Duke, UNC). Basketball schools - 4 (above 3 + Wake). Kansas gave us Dean, and we loaned you Roy. North Carolina has owned NCAA hoops since the field expanded in 1975 (coincidentally ending UCLA's dominance). Great quiz jonesjeffum!

	GeoExpert:	Mar 16th, 2010 at 22:34 GMT	16 points
	I don't know about everyone else, but I think this game should be categorized under Sports rather than Geography.

	radiosilence:	Mar 16th, 2010 at 23:09 GMT	0 points
	Oh my, I missed my own hometown (lol).

	C_W_Browne:	Mar 16th, 2010 at 23:13 GMT	-4 points
	I think this is alright as a georgraphy one, I'm not even sure what sport this is but I just guessed US cities and got about half of them right.

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	omnipotent1:	Mar 17th, 2010 at 01:18 GMT	1 point
	Well, it turns out that if you know a lot of U.S. cities and have some kind of sense of where college basketball has historical significance, you can get 23 out of 36.

	TheWhiteLobster:	Mar 17th, 2010 at 01:27 GMT	5 points
	It's really surprising to me that New Orleans hasn't hosted more games.

	zyzzyva98:	Mar 17th, 2010 at 01:53 GMT	0 points
	@omnipotent- exactly what I got, taking random guesses. @irishboy- Kansas is rich in basketball history, I should know, since I live there. They can do more than just touch Indiana / UCLA's history, we'll leave it at that.

	johnlk:	Mar 17th, 2010 at 03:39 GMT	2 points
	Dayton, Ohio??

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	irishboy89:	Mar 17th, 2010 at 08:15 GMT	-1 points
	@zyzzyva98 an argument could be made with Kansas vs. Indiana, but not UCLA

	krisfunk27:	Mar 17th, 2010 at 12:07 GMT	2 points
	I only knew St. Louis because they call it that silly "Arch Madness."

	jon:	Mar 17th, 2010 at 22:18 GMT	-1 points
	This game should be classed under random guesses of American cities with no discernible pattern catergory...

	kevin_tapani:	Mar 17th, 2010 at 23:14 GMT	4 points
	I love how we've had more games in Boise than they've had in LA. Also surprised not to see Omaha on the list, because it's such a central location.

	AmblingPoodle:	Mar 18th, 2010 at 01:41 GMT	2 points
	Great geography quiz. It really shows the heartland of basketball: Indy, Dayton, Louisville, and Lexington are right in the same neighborhood (much closer to one another than Kansas City & Wichita).

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	arthurdietrich:	Mar 22nd, 2010 at 21:47 GMT	4 points
	@krisfunk- Arch Madness is the Missouri Valley Conf Tourney. Those games do not count.

	sobdennis:	Jun 13th, 2010 at 22:13 GMT	2 points
	I knew Kansas City had the most. They hosted the finals for years and is the home of the NCAA.I really had to think about some of those. But I got 26.

	daHOOK:	Aug 28th, 2010 at 21:02 GMT	2 points
	Actually, the NCAA has moved to Indianapolis, which is the permanent backup city for the Final Four. /// Dayton hosts has hosted the game that cuts the field from 65 to 64 for several years now.

	Hamburger:	Oct 4th, 2010 at 22:17 GMT	0 points
	Very strange. The only two tournaments I have been to were in Memphis and Tempe, and neither made the list.

	sobdennis:	Oct 28th, 2010 at 03:57 GMT	1 point
	@dahook-I did not know the NCAA had moved to Indy. But I do know that KC was the home of the NCAA for years and hosted a slew of the final fours in the early years.

	lasagna:	Jul 12th, 2011 at 09:27 GMT	-1 points
	What about SanAntonio?

	thestanleychen:	Jul 14th, 2011 at 23:23 GMT	1 point
	A lot of surprises on here. Good, good quiz.

	aznemesis:	Jul 18th, 2011 at 04:40 GMT	2 points
	@Hamburger: Tempe doesn't make the list because most tournament games held in the state of Arizona are held in Tucson. Basketball in this state means the University of Arizona. Like others, I mostly just guessed the cities of or near national powers, then threw in around the NCAA headquarters (like Dayton, which hosts the play-in games). Then, I guessed some places that are thrown in for geographical balance, like Boise. Strange that Corvallis was on the list, but Eugene wasn't. I would have thought that Oregon had hosted more tourney games than Oregon State.