NEW: San Jose a wasteland for NCAA basketball prospects

From: Oakland Tribune | Date: March 22, 2007| Author: Jon Wilner - | Copyright information

The NCAA men's basketball tournament comes to San Jose today for the second time in five years. UCLA and Kansas - two of the game's biggest names - are among the four teams congregating at HP Pavilion for the Sweet 16.

But although it has become a regular gathering place for the best teams in college basketball, San Jose produces astonishingly few of the best players in college basketball.

In the past 20 years, San Jose has produced just two top-rated boys prospects - fewer tha...

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