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Lawrence leads this list of top college basketball cities; KC doesn’t fare as well

Visitors to Lawrence for a Kansas Jayhawks game don’t need convincing they’re in one of the nation’s top college basketball cities.

Now, there’s a list to support it.

Wallethub.com came up with a list of top college hoop cities and ranks Lawrence first, ahead of Durham, N.C., home to Duke.

Nine metrics were used to rank 289 cities of all sizes. Among the criteria: number of Division I college teams in the city, the success of those teams, hall of fame coaches, ticket price to games and social media following.

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Rounding out the top five are Los Angeles (UCLA, Southern California, others), East Lansing, Mich.