From the Christian Sciente Monitor's blog, "It's Only a Game:"

• The NCAA has compiled an interesting probability table showing what percentage of high school athletes go on to compete in college and professionally. The data shows that ice hockey (among five men's sports and one women's) enjoys the highest continuation rate, with 11 percent of boys who played in high school going on to play in college. Baseball was next with 6.1 percent, followed by football (5.7 percent), soccer (5.5 percent), women's basketball (3.3 percent), and men's basketball (3 percent). Professionally, women's pro basketball was the hardest of all to break in to, with only .02 percent who played basketball in high school landing pro careers.