NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament

The **NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament** (also known as **March Madness**) is a single-elimination (if you lose a game, you stop playing) college basketball tournament. It has 68 college teams in it. The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) created it in 1939. When it was started in 1939, only eight teams played in the tournament. The tournament is played from mid-March to early April.

32 of the teams in the tournament are the best teams in each Division I conference. 36 of the teams join the tournament by winning other basketball games. These teams are chosen by the NCAA to be in the tournament. For the tournament, there are four regions. Each team is put into a region. Each region has 16 teams. The tournament has seven rounds. It is three weeks long. The first round is called the First Four. It has eight teams in it. The four winning teams join the tournament.

Each team is given a number. It is from 1 to 16. In the tournament, the semifinals are known as the Sweet Sixteen. The finals are known as the Elite Eight. They are named for how many teams are in these rounds.

Thirty seven college basketball teams have won the tournament. As of 2023, UCLA has won it eleven times. The Kentucky Wildcats have won it eight times. The coach with the most wins is John Wooden. He coached UCLA. He has won it ten times.

## Titles by school

- The following is a list of all schools that have won at least one NCAA men's basketball tournament, along with the year(s) in which they won their championship(s).
_Vacated title not included_

|Team|#|class="unsortable"|Years|||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|style=|**UCLA Bruins men's basketball**|**11**|style="font-size:90%;" align=left|1964, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1995||
|style=|**Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball**|**8**|style="font-size:90%;" align=left|1948, 1949, 1951, 1958, 1978, 1996, 1998, 2012||
|style=|**North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball**|**6**|style="font-size:90%;" align=left|1957, 1982, 1993, 2005, 2009, 2017||
|style=|**Duke Blue Devils men's basketball**|rowspan=3|**5**|style="font-size:90%;" align=left|1991, 1992, 2001, 2010, 2015|
|style=|**Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball**|style="font-size:90%;" align=left|1940, 1953, 1976, 1981, 1987|||
|style=|**UConn Huskies men's basketball**|style="font-size:90%;" align=left|1999, 2004, 2011, 2014, 2023, 2024|||
|style=|**Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball**|**4**|style="font-size:90%;" align=left|1952, 1988, 2008, 2022||
|style=|**Villanova Wildcats men's basketball**|**3**|style="font-size:90%;" align=left|1985, 2016, 2018||
|style=|**Cincinnati Bearcats men's basketball**|rowspan=7|**2**|style="font-size:90%;" align=left|1961, 1962|
|style=|**Florida Gators men's basketball**|style="font-size:90%;" align=left|2006, 2007|||
|style=|**Louisville Cardinals basketball**|style="font-size:90%;" align=left|1980, 1986, 2013*|||
|style=|**Michigan State Spartans men's basketball**|style="font-size:90%;" align=left|1979, 2000|||
|style=|**NC State Wolfpack men's basketball**|style="font-size:90%;" align=left|1974, 1983|||
|style=|**Oklahoma State Cowboys basketball**|style="font-size:90%;" align=left|1945, 1946|||
|style=|**San Francisco Dons men's basketball**|style="font-size:90%;" align=left|1955, 1956|||

|Team|#|class="unsortable"|Year|||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|style=|**Arizona Wildcats men's basketball**|rowspan=22|**1**|style="font-size:90%;" align=left|1997|
|style=|**Arkansas Razorbacks men's basketball**|style="font-size:90%;" align=left|1994|||
|style=|**Baylor Bears men's basketball**|style="font-size:90%;" align=left|2021|||
|style=|**California Golden Bears men's basketball**|style="font-size:90%;" align=left|1959|||
|style=|**CCNY Beavers men's basketball**|style="font-size:90%;" align=left|1950|||
|style=|**Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball**|style="font-size:90%;" align=left|1984|||
|style=|**Holy Cross Crusaders men's basketball**|style="font-size:90%;" align=left|1947|||
|style=|**La Salle Explorers men's basketball**|style="font-size:90%;" align=left|1954|||
|style=|**Loyola Ramblers men's basketball**|style="font-size:90%;" align=left|1963|||
|style=|**Marquette Golden Eagles men's basketball**|style="font-size:90%;" align=left|1977|||
|style=|**Maryland Terrapins men's basketball**|style="font-size:90%;" align=left|2002|||
|style=|**Michigan Wolverines men's basketball**|style="font-size:90%;" align=left|1989|||
|style=|**Ohio State Buckeyes men's basketball**|style="font-size:90%;" align=left|1960|||
|style=|**Oregon Ducks men's basketball**|style="font-size:90%;" align=left|1939|||
|style=|**UNLV Runnin' Rebels basketball**|style="font-size:90%;" align=left|1990|||
|style=|**Stanford Cardinal men's basketball**|style="font-size:90%;" align=left|1942|||
|style=|**Syracuse Orange men's basketball**|style="font-size:90%;" align=left|2003|||
|style=|**UTEP Miners men's basketball**|style="font-size:90%;" align=left|1966|||
|style=|**Utah Utes men's basketball**|style="font-size:90%;" align=left|1944|||
|style=|**Virginia Cavaliers men's basketball**|style="font-size:90%;" align=left|2019|||
|style=|**Wisconsin Badgers men's basketball**|style="font-size:90%;" align=left|1941|||
|style=|**Wyoming Cowboys basketball**|style="font-size:90%;" align=left|1943|||

## Infobox (sports league)

- **logo**: March Madness logo.svg
- **logo size**: 200
- **sport**: Basketball
- **inaugural**: 1939 NCAA basketball tournament, 1939
- **country**: United States
- **teams**: 64 (Tournament)
8 (First Four)
- **most champs**: UCLA (11)
- **tv**: NCAA March Madness (TV program), NCAA March Madness
(CBS Sports, CBS/TBS (American TV channel), TBS/TNT (American TV network), TNT/TruTV)
CBS Sports Network (re-airs)
Galavisión (Spanish-language)
- **level**: 1