List of NCAA Division I men's basketball champions

[5][6] Teams can gain invitations by winning a conference championship or receiving an at-large bid from a 10-person committee.

[12][13] Teams were able to compete in both events in the same year, and three of those that did so—Utah in 1944, Kentucky in 1949, and City College of New York (CCNY) in 1950—won the NCAA Tournament.

[18] The first occurrence was when the 2013 championship won by Louisville became the first men's basketball national title to ever be vacated by the NCAA after the school and its coach at the time, Rick Pitino, were implicated in a 2015 sex scandal involving recruits.

[18] The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) has been the most successful college in the NCAA Tournament, winning 11 national titles.

Connecticut is the most recent champion, with consecutive wins against San Diego State in the final of the 2023 tournament and Purdue in 2024.

A room with glass display cases containing rectangular, wooden trophies that are gold-plated.
The University of California, Los Angeles (trophy room pictured) has won the Men's Division I Basketball Championship a record 11 times.