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East Lansing named 6th-best college basketball city in America

By Connor Muldowney

Feb 23, 2017; East Lansing, MI, USA; General view of the Jack Breslin Student Events Center during the first half of a game between the Michigan State Spartans and the Nebraska Cornhuskers at the Jack Breslin Student Events Center. Mandatory Credit: Mike Carter-USA TODAY Sports
Feb 23, 2017; East Lansing, MI, USA; General view of the Jack Breslin Student Events Center during the first half of a game between the Michigan State Spartans and the Nebraska Cornhuskers at the Jack Breslin Student Events Center. Mandatory Credit: Mike Carter-USA TODAY Sports /
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According to WalletHub, East Lansing has been named the sixth-best college basketball city in the country.

If you love college basketball, East Lansing is the place to be, according to one publication. Michigan State has consistently been near the top of the country’s ranks in terms of college basketball programs and the city of East Lansing has flourished because of it.

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According to WalletHub, East Lansing has been named the sixth-best college basketball city in America, behind cities like Los Angeles, Bloomington (Ind.), Philadelphia, Durham (N.C.) and Chapel Hill (N.C.). Michigan State’s campus finished right ahead of Kentucky’s (Lexington) and Kansas’ (Lawrence).

The criteria the website used to rank the cities was based on “the number of teams per city and the winning percentage of each to stadium capacity and social-media engagement.”

Other Big Ten cities to make the list, outside of Bloomington, were Ann Arbor (17th), College Park (18th), Champaign (70th) and West Lafayette (97th). Clearly the study believes that Michigan State has the second-best Big Ten basketball atmosphere with Michigan third and Maryland fourth.

For those who have been to basketball games in East Lansing, you know the atmosphere can be electric and there’s rarely an open seat in the building, especially during conference season and close to March.

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The program’s increasing success can be attributed to Tom Izzo who has grown the program over the past two decades. Michigan State has become a fixture among college basketball’s elite and now East Lansing is one of the best cities in America for the sport.

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