Including the 2012 NCAA Tournament: Brigham Young University has made the Tournament 28 times and has never made it to the Final Four. Missouri is second, with 26 appearances without ever making the Final Four. Xavier, which so far has won in the 2012 tournament as this is being written, is third with 22 years without an appearance.
CELTICS have been in the finals countless of times and lost
The Detroit Pistons have had 7 NBA Final appearances. They won 3 of 4. Their last final appearance was in 2005 and their last title was in 2004.
The Buffaloes have competed in 11 NCAA Tournaments, making it to the Final Four twice (1942), and (1955).
Monday, April 5, 2010.
Including the 2012 NCAA Tournament: Brigham Young University has made the Tournament 28 times and has never made it to the Final Four. Missouri is second, with 26 appearances without ever making the Final Four. Xavier, which so far has won in the 2012 tournament as this is being written, is third with 22 years without an appearance.
BYU
BYU or Missouri -- it's one of them. I'm pretty sure it is Boston College. 18 tournament appearances, 22 wins, no final fours.
Brigham Young University has made 22 NCAA Tournament appearances without advancing to the final four. This is as of the end of the 2007 season.
Roger Milla
By making to the last four teams in the NCAA March Madness tournament
Chickens
18 total final four appearances.
Texas Longhorns Men's Basketball28 NCAA Tournament Appearances 13 Sweet Sixteen Appearances7 Elite Eight Appearances3 Final Four Appearances0 National Championship AppearancesTexas Longhorns Women's Basketball23 NCAA Tournament Appearances 12 Sweet Sixteen Appearances8 Elite Eight Appearances3 Final Four Appearances1 National Championship Appearance (won, 1985-1986 season)
1Kentucky49* Most Tourney Apperances 2North Carolina41 Not Wins, not final 4 apperances 3UCLA40^4Kansas395Louisville366Indiana357Duke348Villanova31 9Arkansas2910Illinois28
Michigan State has the most final 4 appearances
The school with the most appearances without a championship win is the University of NotreDame, which has made 33 appearances (including 2013) in the men's basketball tournament without winning a championship. Its closest bid came in 1978, its sole Final Four appearance, when it lost to Duke 90-86 in the semi-finals.In theory, the school with the most appearances without winning any games is Iona, which has received eight bids and is credited with no wins. (Iona technically beat Holy Cross 84-78 in the 1980 opening round, but because of NCAA infractions, its win was later vacated.) Through 2013, the most appearances without any wins of any sort (vacated or not) is a distinction shared byEastern Kentucky University and the University of Louisiana-Monroe(formerly Northeast Louisiana University), each of which has received seven bids but hasyet to win a game.