This is why the STATE of Indiana is KING in basketball

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Oak Hill is a boarding school and is not a fair comparison when talking burger all americans. Most of those kids are not from Virginia and many do not go to Oak Hill until thier junior and senior year. Not sure about the money it cost to bring them to town because I know when they had Jeff McInnis they played at Hart County one night and at Bullitt Central the next night. They have played a lot of games in Louisville over the years.

Btw, here is a little known fact for you, the head coach of Oak Hill, Steve Smith is a Kentucky native.

I know Oak Hill is a private school and the players are not all from Virginia. The point I was making is the size of the fieldhouse does not correspond to the greatness of the basketball. Kids move all over in high school to get the best exposure. There is no telling where these kids actually are born. OJ Mayo played on high school teams in Kentucky, Ohio and Virginia but was born in West Virginia, so which state claims him. There are private schools in every state that recruit kids to play from all parts of that state or other states. Just because they may have a smaller "fieldhouse" does not mean they are inferior to teams or states that have larger "fieldhouses". Again, if it is posted that these oversized fieldhouses for high school basketball games sell out or are close to sell outs every home game then I will admit Basketball is King in Indiana but not Indiana is the King of Basketball, there is a HUGE difference. Teams in Kentucky like Louisville Ballard with seating capacity of 2000, Scott County with seating capacity of 3000 and Covington Holmes with seating capacity of 3000, have all been pretty dominant in their own right the past few years and they don't have fieldhouses 5-6 times their current capacity but the level of basketball played is just as good if not better than what is played in Hoosier Hoop Hysteria country. Again, in this case SIZE DOES NOT MATTER