The OP article overstates the amount of Utah players on BYU's current roster. We have 5 Utah guys on our current roster. Also, players from Georgia, Mississippi, Wisconsin, Washington, Arizona, and Idaho (x3) (although the 2 from furthest away are transfers).
It's still interesting to compare to Gonzaga and Saint Mary's.
Gonzaga has FOUR international players and ONE player from the state of Washington on their roster:
2 from France, 2 from Oregon, 1 from each of Japan, Denmark, California, Arizona, Washington, Colorado, Utah, Texas, Kansas, Illinois, Tennessee
Saint Mary's has SEVEN international players and only FOUR from the huge state of California:
6 from Australia, 4 from California, 2 from Arizona, 1 from each of Latvia, Oregon, New Mexico.