Tracking the Every College basketball team that have never made the Men's NCAA tournament, History.

There are 45 current Division I college basketball programs that have never qualified for the NCAA tournament.

In the long history of the men's NCAA tournament, a field that has now grown to 68 teams, there are still a surprising number of programs waiting to participate in their first March Madness.

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.

Off course, Some of the College Programs that have the Longest NCAA Tournament Droughts among the March Madness Teams.

Longwood and Bryant left the list after they qualified for the 2022 NCAA tournament. The Lancers secured their first-ever appearance in the tournament with a Big South conference championship while the Bulldogs cruised to an NEC title and auto bid.

In 2021-22, Grand Canyon and Hartford made the tournament for the first time.

About a quarter of the teams on the current list are ineligible for this year’s tournament as part of a recent Division I reclassification action. These teams are denoted in the table below with an asterisk.

Tracker: NCAAB teams that have never made the men's NCAA tournament, Zero March Madness Appearances in Alphabetic Order.

Teams — Conference

Army — Patriot

Bellarmine* — Atlantic Sun

Bethune-Cookma — n 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

Kennesaw State — Atlantic Sun

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

Stetson — Atlantic Sun

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

California Baptist and North Alabama will be eligible for the NCAA tournament beginning with the 2022-23 season.

Bellarmine, Dixie State, Tarleton State and UC San Diego all moved to Division I this season. They will be eligible for the NCAA tournament beginning with the 2024-25 season.

The four teams to have been eligible for every tournament and not been dancing once are Army, St. Francis (NY), William & Mary and The Citadel.

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