I believe land grant and flagship universities were his key point, not actual basketball achievement. As you can clearly see Cincinnati is not even a top 100 basketball program.
List of Land-Grant Colleges and Universities
July 19, 2007
Alabama
Alabama A&M University (Normal, AL) --
http://www.aamu.edu/
Auburn University (Auburn, AL) --
http://www.auburn.edu/
Tuskegee University (Tuskegee, AL) --
http://www.tuskegee.edu/
Alaska
University of Alaska Statewide System (Fairbanks, AK) --
http://www.alaska.edu/
American Samoa
American Samoa Community College (Pago Pago, AQ) --
http://www.amsamoa.edu/
Arizona
Navajo Community College (Tsaile, AZ) --
https://www.dinecollege.edu/ics/
University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ) --
http://www.arizona.edu/
Arkansas
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville (Fayetteville, AR) --
http://www.uark.edu/home/
University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff (Pine Bluff, AR) --
http://www.uapb.edu/
California
D-Q University (Davis, CA) --
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-Q_University
University of California System (Oakland, CA) --
http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/
Colorado
Colorado State University (Fort Collins, CO) --
http://welcome.colostate.edu/
Connecticut
Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station (New Haven, CT) --
http://www.ct.gov/caes/site/default.asp
University of Connecticut (Storrs, CT) --
http://www.uconn.edu/
Delaware
Delaware State University (Dover, DE) --
http://www.desu.edu/
University of Delaware (Newark, DE) --
http://www.udel.edu/
District of Columbia
University of the District of Columbia (Washington, DC) --
http://www.udc.edu/
Florida
Florida A&M University (Tallahassee, FL) --
http://www.famu.edu/
University of Florida (Gainesville, FL) --
http://www.ufl.edu/
Georgia
Fort Valley State College (Fort Valley, GA) --
http://www.fvsu.edu/
University of Georgia (Athens, GA) --
http://www.uga.edu/
Guam
University of Guam (Mangilao, GU) --
http://www.uog.edu/
Hawaii
University of Hawaii (Honolulu, HI) --
http://www.hawaii.edu/
Idaho
University of Idaho (Moscow, ID) --
http://www.uihome.uidaho.edu/uihome/
Illinois
University of Illinois (Urbana, IL) --
http://www.uiuc.edu/
Indiana
Purdue University (West Lafayette, IN) --
http://www.purdue.edu/
Iowa
Iowa State University (Ames, IA) --
http://www.iastate.edu/
Kansas
Haskell Indian Nations University (Lawrence, KS) --
http://www.haskell.edu/haskell/
Kansas State University (Manhattan, KS) --
http://www.k-state.edu/
Kentucky
Kentucky State University (Frankfort, KY) --
http://www.kysu.edu/
University of Kentucky (Lexington, KY) --
http://www.uky.edu/
Louisiana
Louisiana State University System (Baton Rouge, LA) --
http://www.lsusystem.lsu.edu/
Southern University System (Baton Rouge, LA) --
http://www.sus.edu/
Maine
University of Maine (Orono, ME) --
http://www.umaine.edu/
Maryland
University of Maryland at College Park (College Park, MD) --
http://www.umd.edu/
University of Maryland Eastern Shore (Princess Anne, MD) --
http://www.umes.edu/
Massachusetts
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA) --
http://web.mit.edu/
University of Massachusetts (Amherst, MA)
Michigan
Bay Mills Community College (Brimley, MI) --
http://www.bmcc.edu/
Michigan State University (East Lansing, MI) --
http://www.msu.edu/
Micronesia
Community College of Micronesia (Kolonia, Pohnpei, FM) --
http://www.comfsm.fm/
Minnesota
Fond Du Lac Community College (Cloquet, MN) --
http://www.fdltcc.edu/
Leech Lake Tribal College (Cass Lake, MN) --
http://www.lltc.org/
University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, MN) --
http://www1.umn.edu/twincities/index.php
Mississippi
Alcorn State University (Lorman, MS) --
http://www.alcorn.edu/
Mississippi State University (Mississippi State, MS) --
http://www.msstate.edu/
Missouri
Lincoln University (Jefferson City, MO) --
http://www.lincolnu.edu/pages/1.asp
University of Missouri System (Columbia, MO) --
http://www.umsystem.edu/
Montana
Blackfeet Community College (Browning, MT) --
http://www.bfcc.org/
Dull Knife Community College (Lame Deer, MT) --
http://www.cdkc.edu/
Fort Belknap Community College (Harlem, MT) --
http://www.fbcc.edu/
Fort Peck Community College (Poplar, MT) --
http://www.fpcc.edu/
Little Big Horn College (Crow Agency, MT) --
http://www.lbhc.cc.mt.us/
Montana State University (Bozeman, MT) --
http://www.montana.edu/
Salish Kootenai College (Pablo, MT) --
http://www.skc.edu/
Stone Child College (Box Elder, MT) --
http://www.montana.edu/wwwscc/
Nebraska
Nebraska Indian Community College (Winnebago, NE) --
http://www.thenicc.edu/
University of Nebraska System (Lincoln, NE) --
http://www.nebraska.edu/
Nevada
University of Nevada, Reno (Reno, NV) --
http://www.unr.edu/content/
New Hampshire
University of New Hampshire (Durham, NH) --
http://www.unh.edu/
New Jersey
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, NJ) --
http://www.rutgers.edu/
New Mexico
Crownpoint Institute of Technology (Crownpoint, NM) -- ???
Institute of American Indian Arts (Santa Fe, NM) --
http://www.iaia.edu/
New Mexico State University (Las Cruces, NM) --
http://www.nmsu.edu/
Southwest Indian Polytechnic Institute (Albuquerque, NM) --
http://www.sipi.bia.edu/
New York
Cornell University (Ithaca, NY) --
http://www.cornell.edu/
North Carolina
North Carolina A&T State University (Greensboro, NC) --
http://www.ncat.edu/
North Carolina State University (Raleigh, NC) --
http://www.ncsu.edu/
North Dakota
Fort Berthold Community College (New Town, ND) --
http://www.fbcc.bia.edu/
Little Hoop Community College (Fort Totten, ND) --
http://www.littlehoop.edu/
North Dakota State University (Fargo, ND) --
http://www.ndsu.edu/
Standing Rock College (Fort Yates, ND) -- ???
Turtle Mountain Community College (Belcourt, ND) --
http://www.turtle-mountain.cc.nd.us/
United Tribes Technical College (Bismark, ND) --
http://www.uttc.edu/
Northern Marianas
Northern Marianas College (Saipan, CM) --
http://www.nmcnet.edu/
Ohio
The Ohio State University (Columbus, OH) --
http://www.osu.edu/
Oklahoma
Langston University (Langston, OK) --
http://www.lunet.edu/
Oklahoma State University (Stillwater, OK) --
http://osu.okstate.edu/
Oregon
Oregon State University (Corvallis, OR) --
http://oregonstate.edu/
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania State University (University Park, PA) --
http://www.psu.edu/
Puerto Rico
University of Puerto Rico (San Juan, PR) --
http://www.upr.edu/
Rhode Island
University of Rhode Island (Kingston, RI) --
http://www.uri.edu/
South Carolina
Clemson University (Clemson, SC) --
http://www.clemson.edu/
South Carolina State University (Orangeburg, SC) --
http://www.scsu.edu/
South Dakota
Cheyenne River Community College (Eagle Butte, SD) -- ???
Oglala Lakota College (Kyle, SD) --
http://www.olc.edu/
Sinte Gleska University (Rosebud, SD) --
http://www.sintegleska.edu/
Sisseton Wahpeton Community College (Sisseton, SD) --
http://www.swc.tc/
South Dakota State University (Brookings, SD) --
http://www3.sdstate.edu/
Tennessee
Tennessee State University (Nashville, TN) --
http://www.tnstate.edu/
University of Tennessee (Knoxville, TN) --
http://www.utk.edu/
Texas
Prairie View A&M University (Prairie View, TX) --
http://www.pvamu.edu/
Texas A&M University (College Station, TX) --
http://www.tamu.edu/
Utah
Utah State University (Logan, UT) --
http://www.usu.edu/
Vermont
University of Vermont (Burlington, VT) --
http://www.uvm.edu/
Virgin Islands
University of the Virgin Islands (St. Thomas, VI) --
http://www.uvi.edu/
Virginia
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Blacksburg, VA) --
http://www.vt.edu/
Virginia State University (Petersburg, VA) --
http://www.vsu.edu/
Washington
Northwest Indian College (Bellingham, WA) --
http://www.nwic.edu/
Washington State University (Pullman, WA) --
http://www.wsu.edu/
West Virginia
West Virginia University (Morgantown, WV) --
http://www.wvu.edu/
Wisconsin
College of the Menominee Nation (Keshena, WI) --
http://www.menominee.edu/
Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwa Community College (Hayward, WI) --
http://www.lco.edu/
University of Wisconsin-Madison (Madison, WI) --
http://www.wisc.edu/
Wyoming
University of Wyoming (Laramie, WY) --
http://www.uwyo.edu/