Kentucky holds claim to having the most passionate basketball fans in the country, and now there are statistics to back it up.According to a recent study by Media Audit, 76.3 percent of adults in Lexington regularly follow college basketball on radio or TV, a higher percentage than any city in the country. Louisville, home of the Louisville Cardinals, ranks second in the national survey with 70.6 percent of people who regularly follow college basketball.Raleigh-Durham, N.C., home to several NCAA Division I schools, ranks third in the survey (62.9 percent), followed by Memphis, Tenn. (62.1 percent) and Greensboro-Winston Salem, N.C. (61 percent).

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