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Originally Posted by Back In The Saddle
According to stats from the NFHS web site 1,002,040 boys and girls participated in high school basketball programs in 2004-2005, the most recent year for which they provide data. 2% of that number would be 20,040. Figure 15 kids per team and you've got 1,336 teams or 668 schools, assuming every school plays both mens and womens ball. Divide that out and you get an average of 13 1/3 colleges per state. So 2% seems a little high, actually.
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Tooling around the internet I got this:
There are 334 NCAA men D1 teams in the RPI list.
There are about 300 men NCAA D2 teams.
There are total 800 D3 men & women teams
JUCO:
Approx, men:
300 D1
100 D2
100 D3
So that's roughly 3000 men's & woman's teams, assuming each school fields both (not always the case).
Assume 10 players avg per team, that's 30,000 players total NCAA & NJCAA. Or about 3%
2% seems close enough by my rough count.