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Louisville - Wow! Of course we all knew it.

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From Wall St Journal:


Wall St Journal

Today

By Ben Cohen and Kevin Clark

......"The one U.S. city that is most obsessed with college basketball is in Kentucky, of course. It's the home of a school with a rich pedigree, a recent national championship and, most important, a rival that fits the exact same description.
The residents of Lexington, Ky., have an unbeaten team in the Kentucky Wildcats. But the citizens of Louisville can claim a different title: People there watch more college basketball than any other place on the planet.
Louisville has entered a rarified group of cities with almost nothing in common except their unhinged devotion to a single sport. In short, Louisville is the television capital of college basketball-just like Buffalo, N.Y., is the hub of hockey and Oklahoma City is the nerve center of golf." ......

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Louisville is Capital of MBB
 
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