We are down to 16 surviving colleges in the March Madness NCAA Basketball Tourney and guess what? 15 of the16 surviving teams are from red states won by Trump in 2024. Most of them are from the South.

Just as people and capital and jobs are leaving blue states, so are the star athletes and coaches. Once upon a time in the 1960s and early 1970s it was UCLA that dominated college hoops, and then it was the beasts from the Big East – including Georgetown, St. John’s and Villanova. Now, it’s the Southeastern conference teams rolling over the opposition.

The red state basketball and football dominance isn’t likely to reverse course. This year, Rivals, which rates the top high school basketball talent, finds 28 of the top 40 are from red states. And so are 31 of the top 40 football recruits.

Now that these “student” athletes can move into the “portal” and sell their talents to the highest college bidder, expect these sudden millionaires to choose schools in low or no income tax states.

These aren’t just dumb jocks.