Upper Midwest's best are in South Dakota

When trying to imagine a place for another NCAA D-1 team in Minnesota, I've recently taken to doing so within an Upper Midwestern conference. I like to check in with my fictitious Upper Midwestern conference every once in a while to remind myself of the viability of such a group, if only there was one Minnesotan school just to complete the dozen.
This year, the two best schools in that group are the two from South Dakota, with the University of South Dakota the top school according to Ken Pomeroy, with South Dakota State as the second best team. For reference, their ranks are 66 and 78 respectively. The University of Minnesota is 88.
While the point of this is to suggest that there is enough talent to support another team in Minnesota, neither South Dakota school has more than 3 Minnesotans on the roster. But maybe that's the point. Neither team is awash in South Dakotans, either, with many of their athletes coming from Nebraska and Wisconsin. The region is teeming with athletes that are willing to spend the best 4 years of their life in Vermillion, if only for the chance to play Division One College basketball.
As Championship Week starts up, it's hard not to be disappointed that no schools in Minnesota have dared to make the leap yet, especially since many of the rivals of schools like Minnesota State or St. Cloud have already departed, and also, because the one school local college fans can cheer for has been rocked by injury and scandal all year.
If you were curious, the rankings of all the schools that I would envision in an Upper Midwestern conference placed like this, according to Ken Pom this season:
South Dakota
South Dakota State
Northern Colorado
Northern Iowa
Drake
North Dakota State
Denver
Milwaukee
North Dakota
Green Bay
Omaha