How many division 1 basketball players are there

How Many D1 Basketball Teams are in the NCAA?

The NCAA Tournament is one of the most-awaited annual basketball events in the United States. How can you not? It’s always a chance to follow your school, do a little scouting of the next fleet of NBA stars, or do both. But you may have already thought about this: How many Division 1 basketball teams are in the NCAA? 

We know that in the tournament alone, 64 teams occupy the seedings. And these 64 varsity teams came from 32 conferences. That alone should already give us a pretty good idea about NCAA Division 1 basketball teams. Let’s get into the subject a little bit deeper.

Before going deep on Division 1 basketball, let us throw the total number of teams first. There are actually 353 Division 1 basketball teams. Yes, you’re not reading it wrong. It’s that many. On average, there are 11 teams per conference, plus there are three more from Division II teams that are in the process of joining Division 1.  

Now, what is the basis of making a school part of Division 1? Here are some of the criteria:

• Must field teams of seven sports for men and seven sports for women or six sports for men and eight for women. 
• Must sponsor at least one male and one female sport for each of the playing seasons, which is in autumn, winter, and spring.
• Aside from football and basketball, a D1 school must play out all or 100% of their games against Division 1 opponents.
• Basketball teams must play at least two games against Division 1 opponents.
• For men’s basketball, 33% of the games must be played in their home arena.
• Must meet the minimum criteria for financial aid awards and follow the maximum allowable financial aid awards for each sport.

Basically, Division 1 schools are just bigger than their D2 counterparts and can afford field teams in more sports, provide a budget for their student-athletes, and give out the most scholarships. All in all, there could be about 170,000 student-athletes under Division 1 of the NCAA and a total of over 6,000 teams across all sports.

As mentioned, there are around 350 Division 1 college basketball teams in the entire country (with the addition of three more teams). We could not possibly put them all here but we aim to include the most popular and the best D1 college basketball teams. Before the season ended unexpectedly because of the coronavirus pandemic, the most respected college basketball ranking bodies rated these teams in the top 25.

• University of Kansas Jayhawks
• Gonzaga University Bulldogs
• University of Dayton Flyers
• Florida State University Seminoles
• Baylor University Bears
• San Diego State University Aztecs
• Creighton University Bluejays
• University of Kentucky Wildcats
• Michigan State University Spartans
• Villanova University Wildcats
• Duke University Blue Devils
• University of Maryland Terrapins
• University of Oregon Ducks
• University of Louisville Cardinals
• Seton Hall University Pirates
• University of Virginia Cavaliers
• University of Wisconsin Badgers
• Brigham Young University Cougars
• Ohio State University Buckeyes
• Auburn University Tigers
• University of Illinois Fighting Illini
• University of Houston Cougars
• Butler University Bulldogs
• West Virginia University Mountaineers
• University of Iowa Hawkeyes

Most of these teams are some of the most popular college teams in the NCAA and this did not include other stellar schools like University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), University of North Carolina, University of Indiana, University of Arizona, Notre Dame University, and St. John’s University. Incidentally, these teams are in the top 10 of the schools that produced the most NBA players.

If we go on the opposite end of the spectrum, some of the lesser-known Division I basketball schools include Presbyterian College, College of Charleston, College of William & Mary, Canisius College, Iona College, Marist College, and Merrimack College. College of the Holy Cross, La Salle University, and the University of Texas-El Paso have won NCAA championships in the 1940’s. All in all, there have only been 36 schools that won NCAA basketball titles.

Since Division 1 Basketball is a headcount sport, a team can only give 13 full-ride scholarships. So even though the average number of players on D1 basketball teams go up to 16, only 13 of them have full scholarships. In total, there are 5,522 basketball athletes in the division, but only 4,589 have full scholarships.

If we’re talking about NCAA Division 1 schools by state, there are only three states with at least 20 teams. These are California (24 teams), Texas (23), and New York (21). These states are also the most populous in the country, so it’s not exactly a surprise why they sport the most Division 1 basketball teams. The next states that have the most D1 basketball teams are North Carolina (18), Virginia (14), Pennsylvania (14), Ohio (13), Illinois (13), Tennessee (12), and Indiana (10).

Other interesting random notes about D1 basketball:

• The only state with no D1 basketball team is Alaska, although it has two D2 schools– the University of Alaska Anchorage Seawolves and the University of Alaska Nanooks.
• There are over 5 million people in Minnesota, but it only has one Division 1 basketball team, the University of Minnesota Golden Gophers. That makes them the most populous state with only one or fewer D1 basketball teams.
• The city with the most D1 basketball teams is Philadelphia with five. These are Villanova, La Salle, St. Joseph, Penn, and Temple.
• The South Carolina city of Charleston has a population of around 130,000, but it has three D1 basketball teams. These are Charleston Southern University, The Citadel, and the College of Charleston.

As mentioned, Alaska is the only state with no Division 1 basketball team. Additionally, four teams have only one D1 basketball team. These are Vermont, Minnesota, Maine, and Wyoming. After these four teams, the states that have only two D1 basketball programs are New Hampshire, West Virginia, North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, New Mexico, and Nevada. 

Several states have three D1 programs, and these are Kansas, Nebraska, and Idaho. Of all the states mentioned here among the ones with the least amount of D1 basketball teams, only two have captured a championship. These are Nevada (the University of Nevada- Las Vegas Runnin’ Rebels in 1990) and Wyoming (University of Wyoming Cowboys in 1943).

Out of the 353 Division 1 college basketball teams, it’s surprising that there are only 15 schools that held national championships. The NCAA Tournament was founded in 1939, so to think that only 15 schools have won it in 80 years, is kind of mind-boggling. Here are the schools with the most NCAA basketball titles:

1. UCLA (11). Won 11 championships but the last one came years ago, in 1995. Its titles won in 1967-1969 was when Lew Alcindor, later known as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, was the main feature of the Bruins roster.

2. Kentucky (8). Eight championships with the last one in 2012, led by Anthony Davis, Michael Kidd-Gilchrist, and Terrence Jones.

3. North Carolina (6). The Tar Heels was famous for being Michael Jordan’s school, and indeed, MJ brought a championship to Chapel Hill in 1982. The last one came just three years ago, in 2017, bannered by Theo Pinson and Justin Jackson.

4. Duke (5). The Tar Heels’ crosstown rivals have won two championships in the last ten years. The 2010 team was littered with future NBA players such as Seth Curry, Miles and Mason Plumlee, Ryan Kelly, and Kyle Singler. The 2015 squad features Jahlil Okafor, Justise Winslow, Grayson Allen, Quinn Cook, and Tyus Jones.

5. Indiana (5). The Hoosiers haven’t won anything in the past 30-odd years. The last championship came in 1987 with Keith Smart, Steve Alford, Dean Garrett, and Rick Calloway leading the way.

6. UConn (4). The Huskies have won three of their championships in the past 16 years. The last one was in 2014 under the leadership of coach Kevin Ollie. Three years before that, in 2011, a guy named Kemba Walker led UConn to the title, along with Jeremy Lamb and freshman Shabazz Napier. Napier was also the main guy in the 2014 championship team.

It would be no surprise to see traditional powerhouses in this list, so if you ever dream of making it big, playing basketball under these programs is not a bad start.

1. Kentucky Wildcats (111). Kentucky trailed to the number 2 team in this list, but the influx of former Wildcats in recent years closed the gap and eventually took the lead. The program produced 111 NBA players all in all, and before the 2019-20 NBA season started, there were 28 former Wildcats in NBA rosters. That includes Anthony Davis, Devin Booker, and Eric Bledsoe.

2. UCLA Bruins (98). UCLA has produced the likes of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Reggie Miller, and Russell Westbrook. It seems like a couple of years ago, they had a comfortable personnel lead over Kentucky, but they relegated to second place in this list, which is not bad at all. Entering the 2019-20 NBA season, the Bruins have 14 representatives, including Westbrook, Kevin Love, the Holiday Brothers, Lonzo Ball, and Zach Lavine.

3. UNC Tar Heels (94). It’s neck and neck between North Carolina and UCLA, but in the end, the Tar Heels were four bodies down. They have had outstanding players before than now (Michael Jordan, James Worthy, Rasheed Wallace, Vince Carter, to name a few), although Harrison Barnes, Danny Green, and Coby White aren’t so bad. There are 14 former Tar Heels in the NBA right now.

4. Duke Blue Devils (81). Duke is a powerhouse of a squad in the NCAA, and they have some of the most popular young players in the NBA right now. Kyrie Irving, Zion Williamson, RJ Barrett, Cam Reddish, and Marvin Bagley III are names that we can throw out there, and if we go further back, Grant Hill, Christian Laettner, and JJ Redick are all college basketball legends. If you skim through NBA rosters right now, you will see 29 former Blue Devils scattered all throughout.

5. Kansas Jayhawks (76). If the 2020 season did not end, the Jayhawks have as good a chance as any to win it all. Currently, they also boast a pretty good armada of players in the league. Joel Embiid, Andrew Wiggins, The Morris Twins, Devonte’ Graham, to name a few, are some of the 11 former Jayhawks on current NBA rosters.

With these five programs alone, they already have 20% of all players on NBA rosters before the 2019-20 season. Isn’t that amazing? If you meet an NBA player, there is a 1 in 5 chance he is from Kansas, Duke, UNC, UCLA, or Kentucky. That’s what an excellent Division 1 program does to you.

NCAA Division 1 basketball is an ocean of talent. There are precisely 353 teams with well over 5,000 athletes and a total of 4,589 full scholarships given out. Well, of course, it’s not easy to be categorized as a Division 1 school. The school needs to have the student workforce sponsor a lot of sports teams for both men and women, which means the institution should have the necessary funding to do it.

Without a doubt, NCAA Division 1 basketball is a source of great entertainment. All of the states, except Alaska, have at least one representative in there. California, Texas, and New York are three of the most populous states in the country– They have 68 Division 1 schools between them.

Coincidentally, UCLA did have the most NCAA championships with 11, followed by Kentucky (8), North Carolina (6), Duke (5), and Indiana (5). It’s also quite a surprising note that in the 80-year history of the NCAA, only 36 schools boast national championships. Fifteen of them won at least two. For states with at least three Division 1 basketball teams, and there are 14 of them, only two have captured national titles. These are the University of Wyoming back in 1943 and the hip UNLV Runnin’ Rebels back in 1990.

Needless to say, some of the recent champion NCAA Division 1 basketball teams like Kentucky, UCLA, North Carolina, and Kansas have produced 20% of current NBA players. These ranges from superstars like Anthony Davis, Joel Embiid, and Kyrie Irving to up-and-comers like Zion Williamson, RJ Barrett, and Coby White. So, if it occurs to you how many Division 1 basketball teams are in the NCAA, they are quite a lot. However, the programs right now that provide a strong basketball foundation are not as plenty.

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Men's Basketball: Probability of competing beyond high school

When we survey NCAA student-athletes about their expectations of moving on to professional athletics careers, the results indicate surprising confidence in that possibility. The reality is that very few go pro.

Estimated probability of competing in men's college basketball

Sources: High school figures come from the 2018-19 High School Athletics Participation Survey conducted by the National Federation of State High School Associations.  College numbers are from the NCAA’s 2018-19 Sports Sponsorship and Participation Rates Report. These college numbers account for participation in college athletics at NCAA-member schools only.    

Estimated probability of competing in men's professional basketball

NCAA Participants	Approximate # Draft Eligible	# Draft Picks	# NCAA Drafted	% NCAA to Major Pro	% NCAA to Total Pro
18,816	4,181	60	52	1. 2%	21%

• NBA draft data from 2019.  There were 60 draft slots in that year and 52 went to NCAA players (seven others chosen were international players not attending U.S. colleges and one spent a season at a prep school).  Percentage NCAA to Major Pro calculated using the 52 NCAA selections (calculated as [52 / 4,181 = 1.2%). Since 2009, 11 international players have been drafted on average each year.
• We estimate that 4.2% of draft-eligible Division I players were chosen in the 2019 NBA draft (52 / 1,224). Additionally, approximately 18% of draft-eligible players from the five Division I conferences with autonomous governance (ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12 and SEC) were drafted by the NBA in 2019 (41 / 228).
• On 2019-20 opening day NBA rosters, former NCAA Division I players filled 85% of roster spots.  One NBA player attended a non-Division I college.  (Source: Jim Sukup, College Basketball News).
• Data on other professional opportunities in men’s basketball were collected in 2019 by NCAA staff with the assistance of Marek Wojtera from eurobasket.com.  Tracking 2018-19 international opportunities for the 2018 draft cohort, it was determined that an additional 839 former NCAA student-athletes played internationally, in the G-League or in the NBA as undrafted players (606 from Division I, 194 from Division II and 39 from Division III) after leaving college; this includes international players who attended NCAA institutions.  These numbers were combined with the 2018 NBA draftees to calculate an approximate NCAA to Total Professional opportunities figure (calculated as [52 + 839] / 4,181 = 21%).
• We estimate that 53% of the 2018 Division I draft cohort competed professionally (NBA, G-League or internationally) in their first year after leaving college (calculated as [52 + 606] / 1,230). Approximately 80% of the 2018 draft cohort from the five Division I conferences with autonomous governance (ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12 and SEC) played professionally somewhere in their first year post-college (calculated as [38 + 144] / 228).  

Last Updated: April 20, 2020

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ASB History / Collegiate Basketball Association

Collegiate Basketball Association was founded in 2007. The association holds the official Russian student basketball championship. It is attended by 800 men's and women's teams from 450 universities and colleges from 71 subjects of the Russian Federation. During the season, the ASB hosts about 5,000 matches, the total number of players in the championship exceeds 10,000.

The ASB is the largest student sports league in Europe and the second in the world. We are second only to NCAA (USA, 1,700 teams), ahead of NJCAA (USA, 750), CUBA (China, 617), NAIA (USA, 450), PCCL (Philippines, 250), CCAA (Canada, 170), RCBL ( India, 160) and AJB (Japan, 80).

The ASB Championship is included in the unified calendar plan of mass sports events of the Ministry of Sports of the Russian Federation and the consolidated calendar plan of events of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation.

Chairman of the ASB Supervisory Board - Alexander Vladimirovich Konovalov. The permanent sports director of the ASB is Sergey Aleksandrovich Belov.

SPORT COMPONENT

The ASB Championship is held in two stages from October to June. The first stage is divisional. The second is the Belov League, an all-Russian playoff with the participation of 32 best men's and women's teams.

At the first stage, teams play in divisions formed according to the territorial and competitive principles. Games are held from mid-October to the end of February with breaks for the session and winter holidays. Each team plays at least 8-10 matches in the division.

CSB divisions are divided into two types - regional and higher.

Regional division - a group of teams from one, less often - 2-3 neighboring regions. The goal here is to attract as many students as possible to the championship, to accustom them to regular sports. To solve this problem, we removed the entry barrier: minimal financial costs, travel and accommodation costs for teams are reduced or reduced to zero by their geographical proximity, the ASB takes care of the matches. As a result, even a university without serious basketball traditions has no reason to refuse to participate in the championship.

Universities and institutes that are ready to assemble strong teams and partly finance them apply to the top divisions. As a rule, they include teams from three or more regions. This is a platform for the growth of sportsmanship.

In 2016, the VTB Student League, an elite division of the Student Basketball Association, was created with the participation of 16 of the best student teams in the country. And in 2017, by analogy with the men's elite division, a women's division was created - the Student Superleague. In 2020, both of these tournaments were renamed the Russian Railways Student League - the flagship division with the participation of the strongest teams in the championship and permission for professional students to participate. And in the 21-22 season, teams from the regions, as well as the first foreign team, the Belarusian Tsmoki-Minsk, were allowed to participate in the Russian Railways Student League.

The second stage of the championship ASB - Liga Belov. It was named after Sergei Belov, the legendary Soviet and Russian player and coach, Olympic champion, founding father and permanent sports director of the ASB.

Belov League is the final tournament with the participation of 32 best men's and women's teams, which receive tickets directly or through a sieve of qualifications. It is played from March to June. Universities get into the LB according to the results of their performance at the divisional stage. The Belov League is played in a playoff format, after each match the losing team is eliminated from the competition.

COMBINING SPORT WITH EDUCATION

The most important task of the CSA is to provide the most comfortable conditions for combining sports with the educational process. The league calendar takes into account periods of peak academic workload, mandatory breaks are provided for during sessions and holidays. Matches of the top divisions and the Belov League are usually held on weekends, which allows teams to travel to other cities without compromising their studies.

The league's regulations state the principle that students with academic debts are not allowed to participate in competitions. Based on this clause, individual players and entire teams were repeatedly suspended and disqualified. Today, everyone in the ASB knows that an open session means forfeiting the right to play basketball.

Digital protocols are kept for all matches of the Association. Statistics are promptly posted on the official website. The system of formation, storage and processing of digital protocols allows you to keep a detailed history of the tournament. Each player of the Association at any time can find out the statistics of his own performances in a particular game, season or all the time in the ASB.

Based on the top divisions, game organization practices are modeled and tested, which are then extended to the entire league. In recent years, student sports and student basketball clubs have been created in a number of universities. ASB works closely with them. We help teams create attractive brands with all the necessary attributes - from naming, logos, colors and fonts to banners, mascots, musical compositions, cheerleaders and corporate merchandise with team and university symbols.

All this makes it possible to attract a new audience and form in them a sense of emotional involvement in what is happening. Thus, the league contributes to the formation and promotion of the brands of teams and universities.

EDUCATIONAL INITIATIVES

We use the CBA championship as a platform for training managers, judges, statisticians, journalists, photojournalists and video makers from among students. The CRS training program is currently being implemented in offline and online modes.

Offline events include seminars and congresses. Seminars are held during the academic year on the basis of universities participating in the league. Managers of basketball student teams from several regions come to each seminar, well-known practical speakers are invited, who are able not only to analyze specific cases of organizing games in student basketball, but also to motivate, “ignite” the audience.

ADDITIONAL PROJECTS

ASB is implementing several additional projects and initiatives. Here are the most important ones.

ASB All-Star Games. Are held every year. They mean the game of the best Russian basketball students in the East-West format and the most intense show program with competitions, prizes, gifts, and performances by student support groups. In 2015, the ASB All-Star Game in St. Petersburg attracted more than 5,000 spectators, a record figure for Russian student basketball.

ASB 3x3. 3x3 is a bright new Olympic sport that was included in the program of the Olympic Games in 2020. 3x3 is an extremely democratic format that imposes a minimum of infrastructure and inventory requirements. To date, the ASB 3x3 project is being implemented in the format of regional tournaments, the winners of which come to Moscow for the annual final. The best student teams of Russia in 3x3 basketball represent our country in international tournaments. And at the 2022 Olympics, Stanislav Sharov, a graduate of the ASB, became the silver medalist of the games as part of the Russian team.

CRS team. This is a system of training camps and classes to develop individual basketball skills for the best ASB players and all students in Russia. Camps and training camps are held during the holidays, and based on their results, a team is formed that represents the ASB at international student tournaments.

ASB Fest. The University Sports Festival was first held in Crimea in the summer of 2016 with the participation of 400 of the best players, coaches and managers of the ASB. They were offered a specially designed format that combined sports and educational components with the opportunity to take advantage of the undeniable advantages of the Crimea - excellent sea, unique climate and resort infrastructure. Participants competed in 11 disciplines with elements of the GTO, basketball, rowing, football, table tennis and other sports. Everyone could acquire important management skills in the classes of the School of Managers. But the main distinguishing feature of the fest was its atmosphere, which was formed from joint support for friends and acquaintances, enchanting endings of games, informal communication and many fun activities. It is significant that the students who visited the festival themselves launched the eloquent slogan “My best holidays!” on social networks. Summer 2019th we have already held the fourth ASB Fest in the Crimea.

OBJECTIVES AND PROSPECTS

The main goal of the ASB is to involve the maximum possible number of Russian students in regular sports and in particular basketball. Sport is an excellent tool that allows you to cultivate in a person the desire for self-improvement, the ethics of social behavior, the ability to develop methods for achieving goals. We strive to create an optimal platform for implementing creative initiatives and ideas, gaining experience and knowledge.

Goal number two is to create conditions on the basis of individual divisions and universities for improving students' sports skills. At the same time, we emphasize the priority of the educational process and the need to organize training sessions and matches without compromising academic performance.

This is how we see the Association in the future. This is a mass league that allows each student to experience not sublimated, but real feelings of struggle, excitement, euphoria without getting into extreme situations. The best of the best at the same time can improve sportsmanship and, if desired, move into professional sports. Managers, journalists, photographers and videographers will receive their first professional skills and socialization opportunities here. Everyone, without exception, develops a powerful sense of belonging to their university, which then accompanies a person throughout his life.

BC "Liberty" beat VSUES in an action-packed ending in the match of the First Division of the Dynamo League in basketball in Vladivostok - SPORT25

Ivan Morgunov became the most productive player of the match - 26 points, his teammate Roman Butynets also scored 20 points. Among the winners, Sergey Tsvetinsky scored the most with 17 points, while Konstantin Kryukov and Anton Turkeev scored 15 and 14 points each.

On Sunday, February 27, several games of the 2021/2022 season took place in Vladivostok as part of the basketball Dynamo League-First Division. In one of the matches of the game day, Liberty hosted basketball players from the outsider of the tournament, the VSUES team, Sport 25 reports.0003

Both Liberty and VSUES are generally indistinct in their regular season: both teams are at the bottom of the standings, but as a result, a serious struggle unfolded between them in a face-to-face meeting, although the initial segment did not promise any drama.

Already in the first minute, the nominal hosts hit twice from behind the arc and expressed a great desire to win this meeting: Stanislav Strulev fired a double shot. At the end of the starting minute Ivan Morgunov won back two points, followed by Roman Butynets successfully got on the line of penalties, but the next attack of Liberty soon ended with Alexei Sysoev's tumbler , 9:4. Later, VSUES got close to the opponent, but then Konstantin Kryukov expressed his weighty word: he scored 15 points in a row, and Liberty completely seized the initiative. In addition, before the break they scored Bakin and Harris , 29:18 . The second quarter was marked by many losses, errors and interceptions. Teams for two scored only 16 points, but the hosts again won the 10-minute period with a score of 9:7, 38:25 .

After a long break, the picture of the match didn't change – the leader coolly controlled the game and for the third time in the match scored more points in 10 minutes than the opponent, 66:47 . When it seemed that the result was done, the guys from Liberty lost ground somewhat, for which they paid the price. Basketball players from VSUES had nothing to lose, so they rushed to the attack, and surprisingly, many shots reached their goal: solo passes were taken by Daniil Shevchuk and Nikita Valiev , and Butynets and Morgunov booked the three-point line. When there were 57 seconds left until the end of the regular time of the meeting, Morgunov hit twice from behind the arc - first he reduced the score to -2, and then completely brought the White-Blues forward, 73:72 . However, mutual time-outs further benefited Liberty: Kryukov equalized the score by converting a shot from the foul line, and two medium throws Anton Turkeev in the end became victorious.

Result - 78:74 , "Liberty" wins VSUES in an action-packed ending and rises to the sixth position in the standings of the First Division of the Dynamo League, "VGUES" in turn close it - without victories in 11 matches of the championship.

The most productive player of the match was Ivan Morgunov who scored 26 points.

“We completely lost the first half, especially the beginning, where we conceded a lot of threes. We played poorly both in defense and in attack.

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