We've done this in the past three years (in which tournaments were held). The more detailed explanation is in the 2018 thread, but the general principle is that each county in the country is assigned to the 68 NCAA tournament teams by geographic proximity (distance from home arena to geographic center of the county) and then the map consolidates as the games are played (winning team takes losing team's land). Some fun oddities between the shapes of large California counties and the close proximity of USC, UCLA, and Fullerton - USC is closest to the center of LA County and Nye County in SW Nevada, but not any of the California counties in between. Also, tonight's tourney kick-off game features schools with adjacent territories, which is one of just 3 first-round border wars (Auburn-Jacksonville State and Villanova-Delaware are the others). Here's what the starting map looks like.
Just be you. You is enough. - K, 4/5/10, 0:13.8 to play, 60-59 Duke.
You're all jealous hypocrites. - Titus on Laettner
You see those guys? Animals. They're animals. - SIU Coach Chris Lowery, on Duke
I love this thing. Sad if Duke doesn't get very far but the map is fun.
Nothing incites bodily violence quicker than a Duke fan turning in your direction and saying 'scoreboard.'
In a fit of remarkably bad timing, the site I use to build the maps (MapChart - a delightful resource) is currently unavailable. So no updates here until the site comes back online.
Just be you. You is enough. - K, 4/5/10, 0:13.8 to play, 60-59 Duke.
You're all jealous hypocrites. - Titus on Laettner
You see those guys? Animals. They're animals. - SIU Coach Chris Lowery, on Duke
Fullerton shouldn’t be on there at all. They don’t even matter in their home county, which belongs to USC (and to a lesser extent to UC Irvine). San Bernardino County is ugly blue Bruin country.
Why are you wasting time here when you could be wasting it by listening to the latest episode of the DBR Podcast?
Just be you. You is enough. - K, 4/5/10, 0:13.8 to play, 60-59 Duke.
You're all jealous hypocrites. - Titus on Laettner
You see those guys? Animals. They're animals. - SIU Coach Chris Lowery, on Duke
Good to see that Duke has taken control of Las Vegas. For the second time this season.