Lots of Division One College Basketball Teams - Part Two

Places where I have lived and the D-1 teams around them.

    Next Stop: Provo, Utah

The Brigham Young Cougars play in the Marriott Center in Provo, Utah. I went to a few games, and many convocations. Not my own graduation, but I have been there many times.

South of Provo a couple hours is Cedar City, that has the Southern Utah Thunderbirds.

    West of Provo is a whole lot of nothing (okay, tons of desert nature and small towns) until Reno, Nevada. That has the University of Nevada-Reno ...Wolfpack. 

    I lie. West of Provo is Orem, where Mark Madsen coaches the Utah Valley Wolverines. It is only 4 or so miles away. I have walked it, more or less. By accident. I then drove it a lot more.

    To the north is the University of Utah. The Utes won it all many years ago, when Indiana was in the incipient phases of greatness. They also made it to the Final Four of March Madness in 1998.

    Finally, to the east one must go all the way to Denver or Colorado Springs, or Boulder or somewhere in central Colorado to find the next D-1 team. PAC-12, or Mountain West, or now whatever the University of Denver. What are they called?

    Maybe I lied again. Denver does not have a team, I think... but Northern Colorado does. They are in the Big Sky Conference. Called the Lumberjacks.

So that is what we have around Provo, Utah.

100 miles to the south, 450 or some miles to the west, (or 10 minutes with UVU), and hour to the north, and maybe 500 miles to the east.

    As the crow flies Boulder looks the closest. The Colorado Buffaloes. Air Force is further east, and south, in Colorado Springs. The CSU Rams are up north in Fort Collins.

    Sorry about the script, sort of unruly.