Mn guys from the past 5 years that left the state:
Chet Holmgren, Kerwin Walton, Dawson Garcia, Dain Dainja, Jalen Suggs, Ben Carlson, Stephen Crowl, Matthew Hurt, Zeke Nnaji, Tre Jones, Gary Trent Jr, Race Thompson, Nate Reuvers, Jericho Sims, Brad Davison....obviously you can't land them all, but you're in the dance every year if you can keep most of them home.
IT'S NOT A MINNESOTA THING!
Every state faces this. I picked the stinking badgers, and the state of Virginia, since Virginia produces so much more talent and they also won a friggin' national championship in 2018, so you think they'd be able to keep their best talent "home", right? 8 of 115 ranked players (2017 - 2022) in VA stayed in state, and ZERO went to the University of Virginia. I did not cross reference to see if any of these players even had an offer from the 2 schools I'm focusing on, but that is not the purpose of this exercise.
WI guys from the past 6 years that left the state, or did not go to the badgers (ranked per 247):
Entire ranked class of 2022: Seth Trimble, Leon Bond, Danilo Jovanovich, Jeffery Brazziel, Learic Davis, Steven Clay, Anfrew Rohde, Donovan Short
Entire ranked class of 2021: Patrick Baldwin Jr, Tyrese Hunter, Brandin Podziemski, David Joplin, Kobe Johnson, Logan Landers
Class of 2020: Jalen Johnson, James Graham, Alex Antetokounmpo, Isaac Lindsey, Darius Hannah (the Davis boys stayed)
Entire ranked class of 2019: Deontay Long, David Skogman, Xzavier Jones, Nobal Days, Marcus Domask
Entire ranked class of 2018: Tyler Herro, Joey Hauser, Jordan McCabe, Tyrese Haliburton, Keshawn Justice, John Diener, Mitch Listau, Jordan Dinsmore
Class of 2017: Terrence Lewis, Philip Flory, Alou Dillon, Owen Hamilton (Kobe King stayed)
Virginia:
Class of 2022 - 13 players ranked, 1 stayed in state at VCU
Class of 2021 - 13 players ranked, 1 stayed in state at Richmond
Class of 2020 - 22 players ranked, 2 stayed in state at VT
Class of 2019 - 22 players ranked, 2 to George Mason, 1 to James Madison
Class of 2018 - 21 players ranked, 1 stayed in state at Old Dominion
Class of 2017 - 24 players ranked, 1 stayed in state at ODU