
This is a list of schools who field men's basketball teams in
Division I of the
National Collegiate Athletic Association
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(NCAA) in the United States. By definition, all schools in this grouping have
varsity
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Places
*Varsity, Calgary, a neighbourhood in Calgary, Alberta, Canada
* Varsity Lakes ...
basketball
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teams. All of the listed schools also field women's basketball teams except for The Citadel and VMI, both
military colleges that were all-male until the 1990s and remain overwhelmingly male today.
There are 352 schools that are full members of 32
Division I basketball conferences or independent, plus ten more that are in transition from
NCAA Division II
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and one also in transition from
NCAA Division III
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, and are members of Division I conferences. Another current Division I school has announced a planned transition to Division III in 2023–24. Basketball conference affiliations represents those of the 2022–23 NCAA basketball season.
Alaska
Alaska ( ; russian: Аляска, Alyaska; ale, Alax̂sxax̂; ; ems, Alas'kaaq; Yup'ik: ''Alaskaq''; tli, Anáaski) is a state located in the Western United States on the northwest extremity of North America. A semi-exclave of the U.S ...
is the only state without a Division I basketball program, but they do have two Division II programs: the
Alaska–Anchorage Seawolves and the
Alaska Nanooks (the latter representing the University of Alaska's original Fairbanks campus).
Programs
See also
*
List of current NCAA Division I men's basketball coaches
*
List of NCAA Division I basketball arenas
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People
* List (surname)
Organizations
* List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America
* SC Germania List, German rugby uni ...
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NCAA Division I men's basketball alignment history
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List of defunct college basketball teamsLink to Google Maps of all 363 home arenas
Notes
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