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Article: NEW: San Jose a wasteland for NCAA basketball prospects
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- Oakland Tribune
- Article date:
- March 22, 2007
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The NCAA men's basketball tournament comes to San Jose today for
the second time in five years. UCLA and Kansas - two of the game's
biggest names - are among the four teams congregating at HP Pavilion
for the Sweet 16.
But although it has become a regular gathering place for the best
teams in college basketball, San Jose produces astonishingly few of
the best players in college basketball.
In the past 20 years, San Jose has produced just two top-rated
boys prospects - fewer than Seattle, Portland, Sacramento, Fresno,
Oakland, Modesto and numerous other Western cities smaller than San
Jose.
"There's no reason we can't have high-level players here," San
Jose State Coach George Nessman said. ...