Forty-four current Division-I men’s basketball programs that have never qualified for the NCAA tournament.
Most of them are eligible for inclusion in March Madness this year (or any other year), as long as they win the automatic bid that’s awarded to the winner of each conference tournament.
About a quarter of the teams on the current list are ineligible for the 2023 NCAA Tournament as part of a recent Division-I reclassification action. These teams are denoted in the table below with an asterisk.
The Stetson Hatters are the most recent team to remove themselves from this list, winning the 2024 Atlantic Sun men’s basketball tournament and punching their ticket to their first-ever NCAA Tournament.
Teams With Zero NCAA Tournament Appearances
| Team | Conference |
|---|---|
| Army | Patriot |
| Bellarmine* | Atlantic Sun |
| Bethune-Cookman | SWAC |
| UC-Riverside | Big West |
| UC-San Diego* | Big West |
| Central Arkansas | Atlantic Sun |
| Chicago State | WAC |
| The Citadel | SoCon |
| Denver | Summit |
| Elon | Colonial |
| Grambling | SWAC |
| High Point | Big South |
| Incarnate Word | Southland |
| Lindenwood* | Ohio Valley |
| UMKC | Summit |
| Maine | America East |
| Maryland Eastern Shore | MEAC |
| UMass Lowell | America East |
| Merrimack* | NEC |
| New Hampshire | America East |
| NJIT | America East |
| Nebraska-Omaha | Summit |
| Presbyterian | Big South |
| Purdue Fort Wayne | Horizon |
| Queens* | Atlantic Sun |
| Quinnipiac | MAAC |
| Sacramento State | Big Sky |
| Sacred Heart | NEC |
| St. Francis Brooklyn | NEC |
| St. Thomas* | Summit |
| Stonehill* | NEC |
| SIU Edwardsville | Ohio Valley |
| South Dakota | Summit |
| Southern Indiana* | Ohio Valley |
| USC Upstate | Big South |
| Tarleton* | WAC |
| Tennessee-Martin | Ohio Valley |
| Texas A&M Commerce* | Southland |
| Texas-Rio Grande Valley | WAC |
| Utah Tech* | WAC |
| Utah Valley | WAC |
| Western Illinois | Summit |
| William & Mary | Colonial |
| Youngstown State | Horizon |
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