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Icky Mettle said:
I disagree that recruiting at small schools is mostly local. Hell my DIII undergraduate alma mater of 1,300 students, located in Greensboro had only 2 North Carolinians on its roster while I was there. We had a number of players from NY and then a mix from other states.

This past season:

Gardner-Webb had no NC players on its active roster.

Davidson had only one player from NC on its roster.

High Point University had only 2 players from NC on its roster. Seven players were from abroad.

Charlotte (UNCC) had only 2 players from NC on its active roster.

UNCG had only 2 players from NC on its active roster.

Elon had 3 players from NC on its active roster.

East Carolina had 3 players from
NC on its active roster.

Queens University had 3 players from
NC on its roster.

NC A&T had 3 players on its active roster from NC.

Campbell had 4 players from NC on its active roster.

Western Carolina had 4 players from NC on its active roster.

The only non-ACC DI schools with 5 or more players from NC on their active rosters were:

NC Central (5)
UNCW (6)
Appalachian State (7)
UNCA (8)

As for NC teams in the ACC:
UNC (6)
NC State (6)
Wake Forest (2)
Duke (1)

Many (most?) of those smaller schools are looking all across the country and sometimes the globe to find some diamonds in the rough that other schools aren’t recruiting. The coaches have networks all over that they are utilizing.
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Well, I don't pretend to be an expert on this topic. i don't remember if the analysis was about now or longitudinal over many years. If it's the latter, I'm not sure what happens now is a guide to what happened in the pre Covid era.

The DIII undergrad example isn't apt, I think, because those players are generally not choosing schools with the intention of making hoops the focus on their life. I could be wrong about that, but it makes sense.

It's true that I might have oversold my point. But those numbers for NCCU, Appy State, etc. support my thesis. Not everyone has to be from NC for it to be true, right? Especially when filling out a roster, a small school is going to draw on local talent. Maybe the stars come from overseas. The backups are likely to be local, and those are the guys who might not have the same opportunities if they were from Wyoming. The numbers from UNCG, not so much.
 
I attended Carolina Cougars basketball camp at Guilford College the year before those guys won that NAIA National Championship. There were some amazing games in that old gym (beside the newer one now) made up of pros and the Guilford team (Carr and Greg Jackson were the stars but there was a big, brute of a guy named Hankins that played too -- Free was an incoming freshman). Lou Hudson played one night along with Gene Littles, Joe Caldwell too...but the biggest attraction was actually Curly Neal of the Globetrotters.

Bones McKinney ran the camp... though I don't think he was the Cougar's coach any longer -- still affiliated with the team I believe. And he was a great big, loud, cussing maching...especially to be so connected with the baptist church.
 
Icky Mettle said:
It’s entirely unrelated. Ivan is there to be a big that the other bigs can practice against.
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Isn't he a scholarship player? I thought we were out of scholarships. So if we get him, doesn't it mean we have to lose someone? I'm too tired this morning to try to think carefully about the scholarship situation. I might just be wrong.
 
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