Recruiting has become a healthy mix of science and sales. There’s almost a formulaic approach every coach has when trying to build a strong class.

A lot of that has to do with the areas coaches are recruiting these days. It’s not just about recruiting your home state well, constructing a good class forces coaches to recruit different locations and regions across the country.

In the B1G, some coaches like to get a majority of their recruits from the Midwest. Some want to keep as many in-state as possible. Others want to venture do other regions of the country to poach talent away from other conferences, typically to fit a particular scheme.

Whatever the case, every coach has his own unique approach to recruiting. So that got us thinking, which states do B1G coaches prefer to recruit the most? While several got a majority of their commitments (so far) from in-state talent, a few others ventured elsewhere to build up their classes.

Here is the state that each B1G program has recruited the best, based on the number of commitments in the 2019 class:

Illinois

Illinois: 4 commitments

Total commitments: 1o

% from Illinois: 40%

Indiana

Florida: 5 commitments

Total commitments: 17

% from Florida: 29.4%

Iowa

Iowa: 5 commitments

Total commitments: 16

% from Iowa: 31.3%

Maryland

Maryland: 5 commitments

Total commitments: 10

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% from Maryland: 50%

Michigan

Ohio: 6 commitments

Total commitments: 25

% from Ohio: 24%

Michigan State

Michigan: 8 commitments

Total commitments: 19

% from Michigan: 42.1%

Minnesota

Minnesota: 4 commitments

Total commitments: 23

% from Minnesota: 17.4%

Nebraska

Nebraska: 5 commitments

Total commitments: 22

% from Nebraska: 22.7%

Northwestern

Texas: 5 commitments

Total commitments: 18

% from Texas: 27.8%

Ohio State

Ohio: 4 commitments

Total commitments: 16

% from Ohio: 25%

Penn State

Virginia/Pennsylvania: 3 commitments

Total commitments: 16

% from Virginia/Pennsylvania: 37.5%

Purdue

Ohio: 7 commitments

Total commitments: 24

% from Ohio: 29.2%

Rutgers

New Jersey: 7 commitments

Total commitments: 13

% from New Jersey: 53.8%

Wisconsin

Wisconsin: 3 commitments

Total commitments: 19

% from Wisconsin: 15.8%