Never. Along with Army, the Citadel, St. Francis (NY), and William & Mary, they are one of only five teams with fifty years of NCAA Division I play and no NCAA tournament appearances.
Yes, but it only competes with the ivy league schools. So it is what we call Division 1 Ivy. It still competes with all Division 1 teams in the NCAA tournament.
Technically only 64 teams are in the tournament, but 2 teams play for the 64th spot, so you could also say 65.
The first ever basketball game was played in 1891 at Springfield College in Springfield, Massachusetts by students who's teacher, Dr. James Naismith, was trying to keep occupied during a rainy day. Therefore, it wasn't an actual team, but rather a bunch of gym class students.
NCAA Division III is made up of 444 member institutions. It is the largest NCAA division. It has more participants (about 170,000 student-athletes) and number of schools than any other NCAA division. There are 413 NCAA Division III Men's Basketball teams and 434 Women's teams.
Alaska Does Not have A division 1 school but just a few years ago South Dakota State University, University of South Dakota and North Dakota State University made the jump to Division 1. Only NDSU out of the three teams has made it to the Big dance.
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In the 2013 NCAA men's basketball tournament, three states were represented by five teams each:California, North Carolina and Pennsylvania. Of these 15 teams, only LaSallefrom Pennsylvania and Duke from North Carolina made it to the Sweet 16.In contrast, the state of Florida had three teams in the Sweet 16: the University of Florida, the University of Miami and Florida Gulf Coast University.
Alaska, Maine and South Dakota are the only states to not send a team to the big dance.
Only 4 teams have won the NCAA Men's Basketball tournament at least 5 Times. UCLA led by John Wooten has far more than any, at 11. Kentucky is #2 with 7 wins, and both North Carolina and Indiana have 5 each. -RTancredi
They have never won the NCAA Division I basketball championship. The Deacons only trip to the Final Four was 1962. They did win the National Invitational Tournament (NIT) post-season title in 2000.
17 teams have gone undefeated in the regular season and of those only 1 (Indiana in 1976) has gone on to win the National Championship.