Reddit has been doing college imperialism maps this year for both football and basketball. The principle is that each school is assigned counties based on geographic proximity* and then as teams win games, they conquer the losing team's land. From the start of the season, there are only 14 schools left with land heading into the tournament, but I thought I would re-start the map using just the 68 tournament teams. I'm going to try to update this in real time as tournament results come in. Let's hope the map is awash in Duke Blue in 3 weeks.


*measured by using the great circle distance from the school's basketball arena to the geographic center of the county. This explains why, for example, Duke (not UNC) gets Orange County (Cameron is a mile closer to the center of Orange County than the Smith Center).