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NCAA Basketball Teams by State with Exceptions

For each state, name any Division 1 college basketball team from the state that DOESN'T have any form of the state in its name.
Examples of things that don't count: Michigan, Michigan State, Georgia Tech, UCLA, etc..
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Last updated: October 6, 2024
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First submittedJanuary 12, 2022
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State
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Teams
Alabama
4
Auburn | Jacksonville St | Samford | Troy
Arizona
1
Grand Canyon
California
11
Fresno St | Loyola Marymount | Pacific | Pepperdine | San Diego | San Diego St |
San Jose St | San Francisco | Santa Clara | Stanford | St Mary's
Colorado
2
Air Force | Denver
Connecticut
4
Fairfield | Quinnipiac | Sacred Heart | Yale
Florida
4
Bethune-Cookman | Jacksonville | Miami | Stetson
Georgia
2
Kennesaw St | Mercer
Idaho
1
Boise St
Illinois
5
Bradley | Chicago St | DePaul | Loyola Chicago | Northwestern
Indiana
7
Ball St | Butler | Evansville | Notre Dame | Purdue |
Purdue Fort Wayne | Valparaiso
Iowa
1
Drake
Kansas
1
Wichita St
Kentucky
4
Bellarmine | Louisville | Morehead St | Murray St
Louisiana
7
Grambling St | McNeese St | New Orleans | Nicholls St |
Northwestern St | Southern | Tulane
Maryland
5
Coppin St | Morgan St | Mt St Mary's | Navy | Towson
Massachusetts
7
Boston College | Boston University | Harvard | Holy Cross |
Merrimack | Northeastern | Stonehill
Michigan
2
Detroit | Oakland
Minnesota
1
St. Thomas
Mississippi
2
Alcorn St | Jackson St
Missouri
2
Lindenwood | St Louis
Nebraska
1
Creighton
New Hampshire
1
Dartmouth
New Jersey
7
Fairleigh Dickinson | Monmouth | Princeton | Rider | Rutgers | Seton Hall | St Peter's
New York
18
Army | Canisius | Colgate | Cornell | Columbia | Fordham | Hofstra | Iona |
Long Island | Manhattan | Marist | Niagara | Siena |St Bonaventure |
St John's | Stony Brook | Syracuse | Wagner
North Carolina
9
Appalachian St | Campbell | Davidson | Duke | Elon | Gardner Webb |
High Point | Queens | Wake Forest
Ohio
11
Akron | Bowling Green | Cincinnati | Cleveland St | Dayton | Kent | Miami |
Toledo | Wright St | Xavier | Youngstown
Oklahoma
2
Oral Roberts | Tulsa
Oregon
2
Portland | Portland St
Pennsylvania
13
Bucknell | Drexel | Duquesne | Lafayette | La Salle | Lehigh | Mercyhurst |
Pittsburgh | Robert Morris | St Francis | St Joseph's | Temple | Villanova
Rhode Island
3
Brown | Bryant | Providence
South Carolina
8
Charleston | Charleston Southern | Citadel | Clemson | Furman | Presbyterian |
Winthrop | Wofford
Tennessee
5
Austin Peay | Belmont | Lipscomb | Memphis | Vanderbilt
Texas
12
Abilene Christian | Baylor | Houston | Houston Baptist | Incarnate Word | Lamar |
Prairie View A&M | Rice | Sam Houston St | SMU | Stephen F Austin | Tarleton State
Utah
2
BYU | Weber St
Virginia
10
George Mason | Hampton | James Madison | Liberty | Longwood | Norfolk St |
Old Dominion | Radford | Richmond | William & Mary
Washington
2
Gonzaga | Seattle
West Virginia
1
Marshall
Wisconsin
1
Marquette
50 Comments
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Level 86
Jan 19, 2022
Interesting idea!
+5
Level 71
Jan 19, 2022
Dang! I always forget that Iowa school. It's got me in my feelings.
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Level 73
Jan 19, 2022
You may want to add the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota. They transitioned from Division 3 to Division 1 this academic year and play in the Summit League conference.
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Level ∞
Jan 19, 2022
Will add that in the next update. Don't want to reset the stats.
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Level 71
Jan 19, 2022
Great quiz idea!
+3
Level 69
Jan 20, 2022
Kept trying random city names for Arizona... and I got my Bachelors from Grand Canyon... face palm.
+6
Level 84
Jan 20, 2022
How about Washington, DC? Georgetown, AU, and Howard but not GW.

Edit: To be clear, I know DC is not a “state.” Yet.

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Level 23
Jan 31, 2022
no unlv for nevada
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Level 59
Feb 1, 2022
university of NEVADA las vegas
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Level 74
Mar 16, 2022
Santa Clara is missing from California
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Level 60
Mar 25, 2022
University of California: Santa Clara
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Level 60
Mar 28, 2022
Excuse me, I am very wrong. Santa Clara is different from Santa Barbara. I accidentally said UCSC, not UCSB.
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Level ∞
Oct 5, 2024
Santa Clara added
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Level 65
Mar 30, 2022
Didn't get a single one.
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Level 70
Mar 30, 2022
why is not UCLA listed in california?
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Level 49
Mar 30, 2022
It's the University of California, Los Angeles.
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Level 65
Mar 30, 2022
Savannah state should be accepted for Georgia
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Level 73
Mar 30, 2022
They are in Division II.
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Level 67
Mar 30, 2022
Omaha Mavericks?
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Level 73
Mar 30, 2022
University of NEBRASKA Omaha?
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Level 73
Mar 30, 2022
Stony Brook should not be accepted, as it has "New York" in the name; it's not any different than Buffalo or any other part of the SUNY system.
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Level 81
Mar 30, 2022
Pretty sure this quiz is using the common names for these schools--none of which use their full name. That would eliminate too many answers.
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Level 73
Mar 30, 2022
Hmm? Which other answer would be eliminated? Not including the state name is the entire premise of the quiz.
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Level 63
Oct 14, 2024
Stony Brook, or State University of New York-Stony Brook
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Level 62
Mar 30, 2022
I liked this a lot. Anyone have anything somewhat similar?
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Level 81
Mar 30, 2022
You're missing Buffalo from New York (commonly referred to as "UB").
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Level 73
Mar 30, 2022
You mean the State University of New York at Buffalo?
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Level 48
Mar 31, 2022
You forgot to include: Long Beach State (California) Chattanooga (Tennessee) Buffalo (New York)
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Level 73
Apr 3, 2022
Are you referring to California State University, Long Beach, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, and the State University of New York at Buffalo, all of which don't belong on this quiz and were certainly not "forgotten?"
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Level 66
Apr 3, 2022
Argh... thought of last one needed for 37 with about a second left, but didn't even have time to hit the first key with it. :-(
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Level 44
Aug 18, 2022
You should add in Minnesota, St. Thomas has recently gone d1
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Level 75
Jan 8, 2023
This is a great quiz and I enjoyed it. I scored 23, but I was typing Notre Dame when my time ran out.
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Level 44
Mar 5, 2023
Dang it, got all but Maryland, 36/37. Great quiz!
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Level 74
May 3, 2023
Green Bay missing from Wisconsin
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Level 73
Sep 26, 2023
Do you mean University of Wisconsin--Green Bay?
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Level 63
Oct 4, 2024
Why do you keep saying "do you mean"?

are you a search engine or something?

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Level ∞
Oct 5, 2024
It's helpful though.
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Level 63
Oct 9, 2024
true but the "do you mean" isn't really necessary. he could just reply and say "Wisconsin-Green Bay" or something like that
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Level 73
Dec 23, 2024
To be extra obnoxious, I'll point out that I actually only used the phrase "do you mean" once in this comment section.
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Level 63
Nov 27, 2023
Fresno State represents CSU Fresno, but it's still in because its sports teams are known as Fresno State. I don't see how this is any different from Buffalo or Chattanooga. The college is University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, but the team is just known as Chattanooga.
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Level 73
Dec 23, 2024
Yeah you make a good point that the CSU schools (and Stony Brook, like I already pointed out!) don't belong on this quiz.
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Level 73
Dec 3, 2023
A lot of updates have to be done. Dixie State became Utah Tech and is now ineligible for this quiz. Minnesota (the state, not the university) should be added because St. Thomas has joined D-I. St. Francis (New York) has dropped its athletics. Please reflect these changes in the quiz.
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Level 54
Mar 27, 2024
If I’m totally honest, I got 34 by guessing random teams I could think off from the past couple of years of march madness and random teams I just knew for no reason. Definitely a lot of deleting answers because I have no idea where the colleges are, but I made it good enough.
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Level 40
Oct 4, 2024
Update
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Level 73
Oct 6, 2024
Need to add Le Moyne College for New York. Recent transition to D1 (like Queens, St. Thomas, Lindenwood, etc.), but is not included in quiz for some reason.
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Level 81
Oct 7, 2024
Dixie State is still accepted, but they are now Utah Tech.
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Level 63
Oct 14, 2024
similar to how swaziland is still accepted for eswatini. It was that name for too long so people still call it that
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Level 64
Nov 23, 2024
Please allow GCU for Grand Canyon
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Level 76
Nov 25, 2024
Really thought I’d get Wichita and Kennesaw without St
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Level 54
Jan 11, 2025
Rip Washington DC ig
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