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Article: WHY ISN'T SAN JOSE A CAGE STAGE?
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- Oakland Tribune
- Article date:
- March 25, 2007
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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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