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Updated tournament wins this century

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The win total now clocks in at 17. Not bad! (Photo: Darron Cummings)

Counting NCAA tournament wins in this century is little more than a blinkered exercise in setting arbitrary and subjective quantitative goalposts. Much like a good portion of real life. Right, let’s do this.

                     NCAA tournament      National titles
                      wins, 2000-21           2000-21
1.   Kansas                51                    1
2.   North Carolina        50                    3
3.   Duke                  49                    3
4.   Michigan State        46                    1
5.   Kentucky              45                    1

After Kentucky there’s a big drop — equivalent to one national championship run — before you get down to a plucky underdog with two national titles like Florida. No other program has won more than 36 games. (Full team list at the bottom of this post. Limber up your scrolling finger.) 

People are occasionally surprised to see that Kansas reigns supreme on this metric. The secret sauce in Lawrence is pretty simple. In addition to, of course, winning it all in 2008 and getting to the title game in 2003 and 2012, KU just consistently gets to the round of 32. Bill Self’s guys have been there every single year since 2007, including in 2021 when North Carolina and Michigan State both missed that mark and Duke and Kentucky were sitting at home. No one notices those wins in real time, but they add up.

On the other side of this coin a slim majority of the programs in Division I — 51 percent — has yet to win a single NCAA tournament game this century. That winless bunch includes two major-conference programs:

Nebraska
TCU

Major conferences that have lots of teams tend to rack up NCAA tournament wins, though, to be fair, acquiring legacy programs from the Big East (or being the Big East and reacquiring UConn) can also boost your league’s victory total:

Based on 2020-21 memberships
                     NCAA tournament
                      wins, 2000-21
1.   ACC                   256                    
2.   Big Ten               209
3.   Big 12                172
4.   SEC                   170
5.   Big East              147
6.   Pac-12                133
7.   American               49
8.   West Coast             48
9.   Atlantic 10            40
10.  Missouri Valley        31
11.  Mountain West          21

There have been 174 winning teams in the NCAA tournament this century:

                     NCAA tournament
                      wins, 2000-21
1.   Kansas                51
2.   North Carolina        50
3.   Duke                  49
4.   Michigan State        46
5.   Kentucky              45
6.   Florida               39
7.   Gonzaga               36
8.   Wisconsin             34
9.   Connecticut           33
     Syracuse              33*
11.  UCLA                  32*
12.  Arizona               30
     Villanova             30
14.  Louisville            28
15.  Michigan              23*
16.  Butler                22
     Maryland              22
     Ohio State            22
     Xavier                22
20.  Oklahoma              21   
21.  Oregon                20**
22.  Purdue                19
     Texas                 19
     West Virginia         19
25.  Illinois              18
26.  Baylor                17
27.  Memphis               16
     Pitt                  16
     Tennessee             16*
30.  Indiana               14
     Virginia              14
32.  Marquette             13
     Notre Dame            13
34.  Cincinnati            12
     Oklahoma State        12
     Texas Tech            12
     Wichita State         12*
38.  Florida State         11
     Georgetown            11
     Iowa State            11
     Stanford              11
     USC                   11
43.  LSU                   10
     Texas A&M             10
     Kansas State          10*
     NC State              10*
47.  Missouri               9
     Washington             9
     VCU                    9*
50.  Alabama                8
     Auburn                 8
52.  Georgia Tech           7
     Houston                7
     Miami                  7
     Utah                   7
56.  Arkansas               6
     Boston College         6
     Creighton              6
     Loyola Chicago         6     
     Nevada                 6
     San Diego State        6
     Temple                 6
     Wake Forest            6
     Dayton                 6*
65.  George Mason           5
     Iowa                   5
     Saint Joseph's         5
     Southern Illinois      5
     Tulsa                  5
     Vanderbilt             5
71.  Cal                    4
     Kent State             4
     Mississippi State      4
     Northern Iowa          4
     Ohio                   4
     Seton Hall             4
     South Carolina         4
     UAB                    4
     Brigham Young          4*
     Ole Miss               4*
     Saint Mary's           4
     Western Kentucky       4*
     Arizona State          4***
84.  Davidson               3
     Milwaukee              3
     Murray State           3
     Oregon State           3
     Saint Louis            3
     UNLV                   3
     Virginia Tech          3
     Washington State       3
     Clemson                3*
     Florida Gulf Coast     3*
     La Salle               3*
     Siena                  3*
96.  Bradley                2
     Bucknell               2
     Buffalo                2
     Colorado               2
     Cornell                2
     Georgia State          2
     Harvard                2
     Middle Tennessee       2
     Minnesota              2
     New Mexico             2
     Oral Roberts           2
     Pacific                2
     Penn State             2
     Rhode Island           2
     Richmond               2
     Stephen F. Austin      2
     Hampton                2*
     Morehead State         2*
     Norfolk State          2*
     North Dakota State     2*
     Northwestern State     2*
     South Florida          2*
     Vermont                2*
     Mount St. Mary's       2***
     UNC Asheville          2***
121. Abilene Christian      1
     Central Michigan       1
     Charlotte              1
     Cleveland State        1
     Colorado State         1
     DePaul                 1
     Fresno State           1
     George Washington      1
     Georgia                1
     Hawaii                 1
     Indiana State          1
     Lehigh                 1
     Liberty                1
     Little Rock            1
     Manhattan              1
     Mercer                 1
     Montana                1
     North Texas            1
     Northwestern           1
     Old Dominion           1
     Pepperdine             1
     Providence             1
     Rutgers                1
     St. John's             1
     San Diego              1
     UC Irvine              1
     UCF                    1
     UMBC                   1
     UNC Wilmington         1
     Utah State             1
     Winthrop               1
     Wofford                1
     Wyoming                1
     Yale                   1
     Albany                 1*
     Belmont                1*
     Cal Poly               1*
     Drake                  1*
     Fairleigh Dickinson    1*
     Florida A&M            1*
     Holy Cross             1*
     James Madison          1*
     Monmouth               1*
     Niagara                1*
     North Carolina A&T     1*
     NC Central             1*
     Oakland                1*
     Radford                1*
     Robert Morris          1*
     St. Bonaventure        1*
     Texas Southern         1*
     UA Pine Bluff          1*
     UC Davis               1*
     UTSA                   1*

*   Won one game prior to round of 64
**  Not including forfeit over VCU in 2021 round of 64
*** Won two games prior to round of 64 

The newest full-fledged no-asterisk members of this “We made it to the round of 32 (or beyond!)” club are Oregon State, Oral Roberts, Abilene Christian, North Texas, and Rutgers. Salute.


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