NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament bids by school


This is a list of NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament bids by school and is updated through 2020. There are currently 68 bids possible each year. Schools not currently in Division I are in italics and some have appeared under prior names. Vacated appearances are excluded from the Bids table and noted below it.

Bids

As the tournament field started with only 8 teams in 1939, it was not until 1975 that all teams needed to win to advance to an alliteratively-named round, hence some gaps may appear in the table for bids prior to 1951.
Please, note list is ordered by Bids then School when updating.
Teams in bold are active in the current NCAA tournament.

Active schools with no bids

The 51 schools shown in the table below have never made it to the NCAA tournament.
SchoolFirst seasonNumber of seasons
Army1903118
Bellarmine20200
Bethune-Cookman198140
Bryant201110
Cal Baptist*20192
Central Arkansas201110
Chicago State198536
The Citadel1913108
Denver190497
Dixie State20200
Elon200021
Grambling197843
Grand Canyon20147
Hartford198536
High Point200021
Incarnate Word20147
Kansas City199031
Kennesaw State201011
Longwood200813
Maine190476
Maryland Eastern Shore197441
UMass Lowell19068
Merrimack**20201
New Hampshire192768
NJIT201011
North Alabama*20192
Omaha20138
Presbyterian201110
Purdue Fort Wayne200318
Quinnipiac199922
Sacramento State199229
Sacred Heart200021
USC Upstate201110
South Dakota201110
SIU Edwardsville201110
St. Francis Brooklyn1902101
Stetson197249
Tarleton State20200
UT Martin199328
UTRGV196952
UC Riverside200219
UC San Diego20200
Utah Valley201011
Western Illinois198239
William & Mary1906115
Youngstown State194840

* California Baptist and North Alabama joined Division I in the 2018-2019 season and will be eligible for an NCAA Tournament bid for the first time in 2023.
** Merrimack joined Division I in the 2019-2020 season and will be eligible for an NCAA tournament bid for the first time in 2024.