List of teams with the most victories in NCAA Division I men's college basketball
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This is a list of top NCAA Division I Men's basketball teams ranked by the number of wins through the end of the last completed season, 2021–22. {, class="wikitable sortable" !Rank !College !First Season !Seasons !Wins !Losses !Ties !Win% , - , 1 ,
Kansas Kansas () is a state in the Midwestern United States. Its capital is Topeka, and its largest city is Wichita. Kansas is a landlocked state bordered by Nebraska to the north; Missouri to the east; Oklahoma to the south; and Colorado to th ...
, 1898 , 124 , 2,357 , 877 , 0 , , - , 2 ,
Kentucky Kentucky ( , ), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States and one of the states of the Upper South. It borders Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio to the north; West Virginia and Virginia ...
, 1903 , 119 , 2,353 , 736 , 1 , , - , 3 ,
North Carolina North Carolina () is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States. The state is the 28th largest and 9th-most populous of the United States. It is bordered by Virginia to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, Georgia and ...
, 1910 , 112 , 2,323 , 839 , 0 , , - , 4 ,
Duke Duke is a male title either of a monarch ruling over a duchy, or of a member of royalty, or nobility. As rulers, dukes are ranked below emperors, kings, grand princes, grand dukes, and sovereign princes. As royalty or nobility, they are rank ...
, 1906 , 117 , 2,246 , 911 , 0 , , - , 5 ,
Temple A temple (from the Latin ) is a building reserved for spiritual rituals and activities such as prayer and sacrifice. Religions which erect temples include Christianity (whose temples are typically called churches), Hinduism (whose temples ...
, 1895 , 126 , 1,961 , 1,121 , 0 , , - , 6 , Syracuse , 1901 , 121 , 1,956 , 949 , 0 , , - , 7 ,
UCLA The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the California ...
, 1920 , 103 , 1,955 , 882 , 0 , , - , 8 , Notre Dame , 1898 , 119 , 1,939 , 1,068 , 2 , , - , 9 , , 1908 , 115 , 1,904 , 1,070 , 0 , , - , 10 ,
Indiana Indiana () is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States. It is the 38th-largest by area and the 17th-most populous of the 50 States. Its capital and largest city is Indianapolis. Indiana was admitted to the United States as the 19th s ...
, 1901 , 122 , 1,890 , 1,090 , 0 , , - , 11 ,
Arizona Arizona ( ; nv, Hoozdo Hahoodzo ; ood, Alĭ ṣonak ) is a state in the Southwestern United States. It is the 6th largest and the 14th most populous of the 50 states. Its capital and largest city is Phoenix. Arizona is part of the Fou ...
, 1905 , 117 , 1,884 , 970 , 1 , , - , 12 ,
Cincinnati Cincinnati ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Hamilton County. Settled in 1788, the city is located at the northern side of the confluence of the Licking and Ohio rivers, the latter of which marks the state line wit ...
, 1902 , 121 , 1,866 , 1,051 , 0 , , - , 12 , Purdue , 1897 , 124 , 1,866 , 1,069 , 0 , , - , 14 ,
Illinois Illinois ( ) is a state in the Midwestern United States. Its largest metropolitan areas include the Chicago metropolitan area, and the Metro East section, of Greater St. Louis. Other smaller metropolitan areas include, Peoria and Rockf ...
, 1906 , 117 , 1,858 , 1,039 , 0 , , - , 14 ,
Utah Utah ( , ) is a state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. Utah is a landlocked U.S. state bordered to its east by Colorado, to its northeast by Wyoming, to its north by Idaho, to its south by Arizona, and to it ...
, 1909 , 114 , 1,858 , 1,052 , 0 , , - , 16 ,
Western Kentucky Western Kentucky is the western portion of the U.S. state of Kentucky. It generally includes part or all of several more widely recognized regions of the state. ;Always included * The Jackson Purchase, the state's westernmost generally recogniz ...
, 1915 , 103 , 1,855 , 957 , 0 , , - , 17 ,
BYU Brigham Young University (BYU, sometimes referred to colloquially as The Y) is a private research university in Provo, Utah. It was founded in 1875 by religious leader Brigham Young and is sponsored by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day S ...
, 1903 , 120 , 1,850 , 1,119 , 0 , , - , 17 ,
Texas Texas (, ; Spanish: ''Texas'', ''Tejas'') is a state in the South Central region of the United States. At 268,596 square miles (695,662 km2), and with more than 29.1 million residents in 2020, it is the second-largest U.S. state by ...
, 1906 , 116 , 1,850 , 1,117 , 0 , , - , 19 , Villanova , 1921 , 102 , 1,847 , 956 , 0 , , - , 20 ,
Washington Washington commonly refers to: * Washington (state), United States * Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States ** A metonym for the federal government of the United States ** Washington metropolitan area, the metropolitan area centered o ...
, 1896 , 120 , 1,827 , 1,239 , 0 , , - , 20 ,
West Virginia West Virginia is a state in the Appalachian, Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States.The Census Bureau and the Association of American Geographers classify West Virginia as part of the Southern United States while the B ...
, 1904 , 113 , 1,827 , 1,137 , 0 , , - , 22 , Penn , 1897 , 121 , 1,819 , 1,138 , 2 , , - , 23 ,
Michigan State Michigan State University (Michigan State, MSU) is a public land-grant research university in East Lansing, Michigan. It was founded in 1855 as the Agricultural College of the State of Michigan, the first of its kind in the United States. It i ...
, 1899 , 123 , 1,790 , 1,128 , 0 , , - , 24 ,
Oregon State Oregon State University (OSU) is a public land-grant, research university in Corvallis, Oregon. OSU offers more than 200 undergraduate-degree programs along with a variety of graduate and doctoral degrees. It has the 10th largest engineering col ...
, 1902 , 121 , 1,786 , 1,396 , 0 , , - , 25 ,
Princeton Princeton University is a private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the ni ...
, 1901 , 121 , 1,783 , 1,111 , 0 , , - , 26 ,
Louisville Louisville ( , , ) is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the 28th most-populous city in the United States. Louisville is the historical seat and, since 2003, the nominal seat of Jefferson County, on the Indiana border. ...
, 1912 , 108 , 1,772 , 959 , 0 , , - , 27 ,
UConn The University of Connecticut (UConn) is a public land-grant research university in Storrs, Connecticut, a village in the town of Mansfield. The primary 4,400-acre (17.8 km2) campus is in Storrs, approximately a half hour's drive from ...
, 1901 , 119 , 1,769 , 1,004 , 0 , , - , 28 ,
NC State North Carolina State University (NC State) is a public land-grant research university in Raleigh, North Carolina. Founded in 1887 and part of the University of North Carolina system, it is the largest university in the Carolinas. The university ...
, 1913 , 110 , 1,767 , 1,110 , 0 , , - , 29 ,
Arkansas Arkansas ( ) is a landlocked state in the South Central United States. It is bordered by Missouri to the north, Tennessee and Mississippi to the east, Louisiana to the south, and Texas and Oklahoma to the west. Its name is from the O ...
, 1924 , 99 , 1,761 , 983 , 0 , , - , 30 , Gonzaga , 1908 , 114 , 1,758 , 1,105 , 0 , , - , 31 ,
Ohio State The Ohio State University, commonly called Ohio State or OSU, is a public land-grant research university in Columbus, Ohio. A member of the University System of Ohio, it has been ranked by major institutional rankings among the best public ...
, 1899 , 121 , 1,752 , 1,115 , 0 , , - , 32 , Oklahoma , 1908 , 115 , 1,741 , 1,120 , 0 , , - , 33 ,
Alabama (We dare defend our rights) , anthem = "Alabama" , image_map = Alabama in United States.svg , seat = Montgomery , LargestCity = Huntsville , LargestCounty = Baldwin County , LargestMetro = Greater Birmingham , area_total_km2 = 135,765 ...
, 1913 , 109 , 1,736 , 1,081 , 1 , , - , 34 ,
Oregon Oregon () is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the Western United States. The Columbia River delineates much of Oregon's northern boundary with Washington, while the Snake River delineates much of its eastern boundary with Idaho. T ...
, 1903 , 117 , 1,733 , 1,392 , 0 , , - , 35 , Missouri State , 1909 , 110 , 1,726 , 1,026 , 0 , , - , 36 ,
Bradley Bradley is an English surname derived from a place name meaning "broad wood" or "broad meadow" in Old English. Like many English surnames Bradley can also be used as a given name and as such has become popular. It is also an Anglicisation of t ...
, 1903 , 118 , 1,721 , 1,243 , 0 , , - , 37 ,
Iowa Iowa () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States, bordered by the Mississippi River to the east and the Missouri River and Big Sioux River to the west. It is bordered by six states: Wisconsin to the northeast, Illinois to th ...
, 1902 , 121 , 1,720 , 1,188 , 0 , , - , 38 ,
Tennessee Tennessee ( , ), officially the State of Tennessee, is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States. Tennessee is the 36th-largest by area and the 15th-most populous of the 50 states. It is bordered by Kentucky to th ...
, 1909 , 113 , 1,718 , 1,083 , 2 , , - , 39 ,
Oklahoma State Oklahoma (; Choctaw: ; chr, ᎣᎧᎳᎰᎹ, ''Okalahoma'' ) is a state in the South Central region of the United States, bordered by Texas on the south and west, Kansas on the north, Missouri on the northeast, Arkansas on the east, New ...
, 1908 , 113 , 1,716 , 1,213 , 0 , , - , 40 ,
Dayton Dayton () is the sixth-largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Montgomery County. A small part of the city extends into Greene County. The 2020 U.S. census estimate put the city population at 137,644, while Greater Da ...
, 1904 , 117 , 1,712 , 1,141 , 0 , , - , 41 , Murray State , 1926 , 97 , 1,707 , 919 , 0 , , - , 42 , Georgetown , 1907 , 114 , 1,706 , 1,108 , 0 , , - , 43 ,
Kansas State Kansas State University (KSU, Kansas State, or K-State) is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Manhattan, Kansas, United States. It was opened as the state's land-grant college in 1863 and was the first public instit ...
, 1903 , 118 , 1,695 , 1,213 , 0 , , - , 44 ,
Virginia Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States, between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains. The geography and climate of the Commonwealth ar ...
, 1906 , 117 , 1,694 , 1,196 , 1 , , - , 45 , Marquette , 1917 , 105 , 1,684 , 1,045 , 0 , , - , 46 , USC , 1907 , 116 , 1,676 , 1,232 , 2 , , - , 47 ,
Akron Akron () is the fifth-largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio and is the county seat of Summit County. It is located on the western edge of the Glaciated Allegheny Plateau, about south of downtown Cleveland. As of the 2020 Census, the city ...
, 1902 , 121 , 1,671 , 1,057 , 0 , , - , 48 ,
Illinois State Illinois State University (ISU) is a public university in Normal, Illinois. Founded in 1857 as Illinois State Normal University, it is the oldest public university in Illinois. The university emphasizes teaching and is recognized as one of th ...
, 1899 , 124 , 1,668 , 1,236 , 0 , , - , 49 , Saint Joseph's , 1909 , 113 , 1,665 , 1,187 , 0 , , - , 50 ,
Wisconsin Wisconsin () is a state in the upper Midwestern United States. Wisconsin is the 25th-largest state by total area and the 20th-most populous. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake M ...
, 1898 , 124 , 1,663 , 1,260 , 0 , {{Winning percentage, 1663, 1260


See also

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List of teams with the highest winning percentage in NCAA Division I men's college basketball This is a list of Men's Division I college basketball teams ranked by winning percentage through the end of the 2019–20 season. It includes only those schools that have spent at least 25 years in Division I. {, class="sortable wikitable" styl ...
* List of teams with the most victories in NCAA Division I women's college basketball


References


NCAA's 2022 ''Division I Men's Basketball Records''
("All Time Winningest Schools" through the 2021-2022 season begins on page 72.)
List of vacated and forfeited games in college basketball The following is a list of games ordered vacated or forfeited by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in college basketball. The list does not include forfeits imposed by individual conferences. As a private association, the NCAA on ...
College men's basketball records and statistics in the United States