Makes me a prOUd Bobcat. I love that wrestling is an important sport at OU.
It's interesting that there is no wrestling in the SEC. Add in hockey and lacrosse and there are three well respected, international sports that are also highly regional, I guess. Does it work the other way with any Southern / Western sports? For example, I know there are some collegiate surfing and rodeo programs but those couldn't be considered be the equivalent of the other three.
Surfing and rodeo are not NCAA-sanctioned sports, but skiing is. As one would imagine, it's primarily schools in the northeast and in the Rocky Mountain regions. Water polo is much more popular on the West Coast. The top 11 teams in the rankings are all from California, but there are teams from all over. I can't really find any sports that are mostly in the South only, but of course, Southern teams dominate baseball.
Edit: Rodeo has its own college governing board and basically all the teams (some of them junior colleges that compete against universities) are from the West.
Last Edited: 10/16/2013 3:45:03 PM by UpSan Bobcat