There are 351 Division I schools with men's and women's basketball teams, yet there are only 30 NBA teams and 12 WNBA teams. There are 120 Division I football teams, and only 32 NFL teams. According to Business Insider, only 1.2 percent of all men who play basketball in college and 0.9 percent of all women go on to play professionally. Only 1.7 percent of all college football players go on to play professionally. The numbers are similar for all other sports, with baseball (11.6 percent) having the highest percentage of student athletes going on to ever getting paid for the sport they play.
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