Article: WHY ISN'T SAN JOSE A CAGE STAGE?

SAN JOSE -- The NCAA men's basketball tournament came to San Jose this week for the second time in five years. UCLA and Kansas -- two of the game's biggest names -- were 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 ...

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