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The history of basketball can be traced back to a YMCA International Training School, known today as Springfield College, located in Springfield, Massachusetts.The sport was created by a physical education teacher named James Naismith, who in the winter of 1891 was given the task of creating a game that would keep track athletes in shape and that would prevent them from getting hurt.
The newest record holder, meanwhile, is Zach Edey of Purdue, who set his record on March 16, 2024, during his senior season in 2023–24. Lipscomb's John Pierce holds college basketball's all-time, all-divisions scoring mark of 4,230 points.
The University of California, Los Angeles (trophy room pictured) has won the Men's Division I Basketball Championship a record 11 times. The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I men's basketball tournament is a single-elimination tournament for men's college basketball teams in the United States.
Rank College First Season Seasons Wins Losses Ties Win% 1 Kentucky: 1903 121 2,398 758 1 .760 2 Kansas: 1898 126 2,393 896 0 .728 3 North Carolina
This is a list of Men's Division I college basketball teams ranked by winning percentage through the end of the 2022–23 season. It includes only those schools that have spent at least 25 years in Division I. [ 1 ]
This is a list of NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament all-time records, updated through the 2023 tournament. [1] [2] Schools whose names are italicized are no longer in Division I, and can no longer be included in the tournament. Teams with (*) have had games vacated due to NCAA rules violations. The records do include vacated games.
The top 25 highest scorers in NCAA Division I women's basketball history are listed below. While the NCAA's current three-division format has been in place since the 1973–74 season, [ 2 ] it did not sponsor women's sports until the 1981–82 school year; before that time, women's college sports were governed by the Association of ...
Then, from 1956 to 1973, colleges were classified as either "NCAA University Division (Major College)" or "NCAA College Division (Small College)". [2] The NCAA's official men's basketball media guide recognizes scoring champions beginning with the 1947–48 season; from 1935–36 to 1946–47, "unofficial" scoring champions were compiled from ...