College bball imperialism
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Who did ISU beat that leads (indirectly) to conquer Maine? No common opponent, so it must be multi-layer, but I didn't go too far into it.
Cyclonepride
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To explain it:
Before the first game, each team has the 'land' from the counties that are closer to it than any other D-1 university. When one team beats another, the victorious team gains their land. That land is held until it goes to another team when a loss happens.
We've been unfortunate land-wise in that not many of the teams we've played had land left when we played them.
As we enter conference play, a lot of this land will be locked within conferences, but ultimately it will then flow uphill through the conference tournaments and into the NCAA tournament, with the national champion likely holding all\almost all the land.
Yeah it comes from Reddit which I've never got into, but I see the updated maps on Twitter.
I know this is just a fun thing some posters do on Reddit because hey maps are fun to look at.
Building on your point, though, much of the nature of the imperialism map is that it starts with 358 districts for the 358 teams in Division I and it can only go down from there. A win means a district either stays the same size (if the loser had no territory on offer) or grows (if the loser had some land area to cede to the winner).
So you end up with a couple of big blocks for the whole country at some point.
And you are right it is hard to gain much territory once "locked into" the conference in early January. Our only hope there is Missouri scores and upset on an SEC better with some decent land area before grabbing it. Same deal in hoping other Big 12 teams defeat their SEC opponents and Iowa State can eventually defeat them.
That looks like the same school that has Hawaii. Is it possible that the far SW corner of Alaska is closer to Hawaii than it is to the nearest college in Alaska?
Correct.
There are two Division II teams in Alaska --
Alaska-Anchorage Seawolves
Alaska-Fairbanks Nanooks
The western Aleutians (the island chain to the southwest of mainland Alaska sticking out into the North Pacific) are actually closer to Hawaii than they are to Anchorage and Fairbanks.
Looks like Baylor holds Fairbanks, Michigan holds Anchorage, and Seton Hall holds the Aleutians.
