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Originally Posted by Andy Grady
The midwest and south have always been mainly offensive regions, as where the northeast and west (growing by the year) are becomming more geared towards the defensive. The fact that New England only has one team represented in the final teams of the tournement to me is just more of an indicator of population of midwestern teams representing at the championships. More teams from offensive regions mean more of an offensively geared tourney...obviously favoring the midwest.
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Hmm... let's check the data. Divide the country into Midwest, South, Northeast, and West as you said:
Midwest: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin
Northeast: Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, and West Virginia
South: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia
West: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming
International: non-US teams
Take the teams at the Championship this year, and with some Excel magic, count the number of teams in each region:
Midwest: 94
Northeast: 116
West: 44
South: 70
International: 16
Doesn't look to me like the Midwest dominates the Championships (in attendance, anyway)...
I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to draw conclusions about what this indicates about various "regional" strategies.
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For those interested, I used
this map to place the states into different regions since it seemed quite reasonable. Attached is the spreadsheet used, feel free to try it out and move states around between the list of regions if you like.