In this weeks map posts is about the list of Division 1 schools here in the United states. Now when people say Division 1 or Division 2 and so on, that is referring to the level of competition athletically. Division 1 is the highest level of athletic competition in America. There are differences in Division 1, because you have class a which are your big time schools such as USC, UNC-Chapel Hill, Florida State, Texas, and Ohio State and so on. You also have Division 1 aa, which are schools like, Gardner Webb University, North Dakota State, James Madison University, Southern Alabama. From this map you can see that majority of the Division 1 teams are in the central and the east coast. The schools out west are only like the big schools like Oregon, Oregon State, Boise State, Montana, Air Force, Nebraska(mid west) Wyoming, Hawaii, University of Alaska at Anchorage, New Mexico.
Hello my fellow viewers, every Monday, I will share a series of maps, these will show the geographical aspects of North America. They will cover, cultural geography, maybe some cartography as well as the physical geography. This map here shows the physical geography MLB (Major League Baseball). [You can see here where certain parts of the states and the far north which teams they root for.] Here in NC, you’re most likely an Atlanta Braves, or Nationals fan. You can see with this map, that the Atlanta Braves, Cardinals, and the Rangers, control some of the bigger fan bases in the south and central parts of North America. For baseball, geography plays a key role. The South is represented by the Braves, Astros, Rangers, Cardinals, Rays, and Marlins. The Braves and Rangers fans, control a lot of the south, they control a lot of the regions and mainly the Braves because they were really the team of the 90’s, not necessarily because they won a lot of championships but because of the fact that they won bunch of Division titles and would go to the NLCS quite often, they won lots of the southern fans over. As you see in the north, there are plenty of teams to pull for. Yankees, Red Sox, Phillies, Pirates, orioles and Nationals. The central part of the U.S has a lot of teams also so its mainly the regions you stay in, and which team is closer to where you live, is the teams you’ll root for. Out West there are only a few teams, LA has basically two teams with the LA Dodgers, and the LA Angels of Anaheim. Then you have the two teams in the bay area with the Giants and Athletics, the Padres in San Diego, and the the Mariners in the North West. The Diamondbacks of Arizona and the Rockies basically control their states but other than that, there isn’t a big fan showing in the other mid west states like, Utah, Wyoming, Nevada, The Dakota’s Montana and so on.
