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9% of rostered D1 players are 6'0" or shorter (1,097 players), 15% of D1 guards; at D3 it is 23%. Height percentiles at every level and position, from 38,534 rostered players.
4,210 players made an NCAA roster for the first time in 2025–26 — 1,250 at D1 — or 7.8 per 1,000 boys playing high-school basketball. The numbers by level, per program and by state.
D1 programs listed 15.4 players on average in 2025–26 against 15.8 the season before (−0.3); 41% still list more than 15. Six seasons of rosters, with D2 and D3 as the control.
23% of 6'0"–6'2" college players are D1; 64% of 6'9"–6'11" players are. From 38,534 rostered players, and why a scoring average barely separates the levels.
IMG Academy has 176 players on college rosters in our data, ahead of Montverde Academy (93) and Sunrise Christian Academy (85). The 50 biggest feeders by level.
Mostly yes: from 2020–21 to 2025–26, D1 went from 6'5" (77.1") to 6'5" (77.5") — about 0.4" taller; D2 went from 6'4" (75.8") to 6'4" (76.1") — about 0.3" taller; D3 went from 6'3" (74.8") to 6'3" (74.9") — essentially unchanged. Computed from 83,239 player-seasons with a listed height.
7.2% of D1 players list a home outside the US; 4.0% of D2 players list a home outside the US; 2.0% of D3 players list a home outside the US (2025–26 rosters, among players with a home on record). The international pipeline concentrates at D1. Computed from 77,669 player-seasons with a home on record.
D1 conference average heights run from 6'4" (Northeast Conference) to 6'6" (Big East Conference), a 2.1" spread against a 2.5" average gap between D1 and D3. Computed from 16,149 player-seasons on 2025–26 rosters.
D1: 24.9% in-state, 44.4% within one state line · D2: 45.4% in-state, 67.9% within one state line · D3: 53.6% in-state, 74.8% within one state line. Computed from 13,244 player-seasons with a home on record, 2025–26 rosters.
58% of the 985 Wisconsin high-school players in our data stayed in Wisconsin for college; 17% reached Division I. Destinations, levels and the programs that take them most, from every season we hold.
36% of the 425 Washington high-school players in our data stayed in Washington for college; 38% reached Division I. Destinations, levels and the programs that take them most, from every season we hold.
37% of the 1,290 Virginia high-school players in our data stayed in Virginia for college; 35% reached Division I. Destinations, levels and the programs that take them most, from every season we hold.