List of NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Tournament bids by school

This is a list of NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Tournament bids by school, at the conclusion of the 2021 tournament. As of 2015, there are a total of 64 bids possible (22 automatic qualifiers, 42 at-large).^[1]

Team appearances[]

Current Division II members[]

• Appearances include those made by schools in the NCAA College Division Men's Basketball Tournament, the direct predecessor to the current Division II and Division III tournaments. The NCAA did not adopt its current three-division alignment until the 1973–74 school year, when the College Division was split into Divisions II and III.
• School names reflect those in current use by their respective athletic programs, not necessarily those used when a school made an appearance in the Division II tournament. For example, Jefferson was known as Philadelphia College of Textiles & Science (athletically "Philadelphia Textile") when it won its NCAA title in 1970, and Omaha used its institutional identity of Nebraska–Omaha when it made all of its D-II tournament appearances.

*Tournament appearance vacated

Teams with no appearances[]

The following active Division II teams are still awaiting their first tournament bids, as of 2021. Conference affiliations are current for the ongoing 2021–22 season.

• California Collegiate Athletic Association – Cal State Monterey Bay
• Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference – Chestnut Hill, Georgian Court, Goldey-Beacom, Post (CT), Wilmington
• Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association – Lincoln (PA)
• Conference Carolinas – Chowan, Converse, Erskine, Lees-McRae, Southern Wesleyan
  • Converse began its first men's basketball season in 2021–22. The school's residential undergraduate program had previously been all-female.
• East Coast Conference – D'Youville, Mercy, Roberts Wesleyan, Staten Island
  • D'Youville and Staten Island are not eligible for the NCAA tournament until 2023–24 and 2022–23 respectively.
• Great American Conference – Northwestern Oklahoma State, Southern Nazarene
• Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Purdue Northwest, Tiffin
• Great Lakes Valley Conference – Illinois–Springfield, Lindenwood, McKendree, Maryville, William Jewell
• Great Midwest Athletic Conference – Lake Erie, Trevecca Nazarene
  • Thomas More will join in 2022–23 if approved, but is to be ineligible for the NCAA tournament until 2025–26.
• Great Northwest Athletic Conference – Simon Fraser
• Gulf South Conference – Auburn–Montgomery, Shorter
• Independents – Emory & Henry
  • Emory & Henry is not eligible for the NCAA tournament until 2024–25.
• Lone Star Conference – Oklahoma Christian, Texas–Tyler, Western New Mexico
• Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association – Rogers State
• Mountain East Conference – Davis & Elkins, Frostburg State
  • Frostburg State is not eligible for the NCAA tournament until 2022–23.
• Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference – Concordia–St. Paul, Minnesota–Crookston, Minot State, Sioux Falls
• Pacific West Conference – Dominican (CA), Holy Names
• Peach Belt Conference – North Georgia, Young Harris
  • South Carolina–Beaufort is not eligible for the NCAA tournament until 2025–26, if its first men's basketball season begins no later than 2023–24.
• Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference – Seton Hill, Shepherd
• Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference – Chadron State, South Dakota Mines, Westminster (UT)
• South Atlantic Conference – Coker, Mars Hill, Newberry, UVA–Wise
  • Emory & Henry joins in 2022–23.
• Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Allen, Edward Waters, Spring Hill
  • Allen and Edward Waters are not eligible for the NCAA tournament until 2024–25.
• Sunshine State Conference – Palm Beach Atlantic

Former Division II members[]

• Teams in italics are not currently in NCAA Division II.

See also[]

• NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament
• NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Tournament
• NAIA Men's Basketball Championships
• NAIA Women's Basketball Championships
• NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament bids by school
• List of NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Tournament bids by school

Notes[]

Team wins[]

• ¹ Vacated appearances are not included in the totals.
• ² Wins in third-place games, regional or national, are not included.

Program changes[]

• ^D1 Program has since joined Division I.
• ^D3 Program has since joined Division III.
• ^NAIA Program has since departed the NCAA to join the NAIA.
• ^Disc Program has been discontinued or the university has closed.
• ^UTPA Texas–Pan American ceased to exist in 2015, when its merger with Texas–Brownsville, forming UTRGV, was finalized. However, the UTPA athletic program continues to exist, as it was transferred intact to UTRGV.
• ^LIU LIU Brooklyn and LIU Post ceased to exist as separate programs in 2019 when Long Island University merged the two campuses' athletic programs, creating the current LIU Sharks. The Sharks inherited Brooklyn's Division I membership.
• ^IPFW IPFW, which changed its athletic brand name to "Fort Wayne" in 2016, ceased to exist in 2018 when the Indiana University and Purdue University systems dissolved that institution, with each system establishing a new Fort Wayne campus. The IPFW athletic program continues to exist, now representing only Purdue Fort Wayne and using that institution's name.

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