Which schools have the most Final Four appearances in NCAA Men's Tournament history?

The Final Four looms in the 2025 NCAA Tournament, and it's possible for a few of the top programs in college basketball history to move up the standings for the all-time Final Four appearances list this weekend.

Duke, Kentucky and Michigan State are among a few of the programs that are top 10 all-time in Final Four appearances that can make it back to the final two rounds of the tournament again this spring. Arkansas and Houston also loom as possibilities to join the top 10 if each can make it through the Elite Eight this weekend.

As history is on the line in the next few weeks, let's take a look at which programs have the most Final Four appearances of all-time, excluding vacated appearances.

The Huskies' sudden emergence as a college basketball power placed them in the top 10 of this list following the 2023-24 season. All seven of UConn's Final Four appearances have come since its national championship season in 1998-99. It's won the championship six times over its seven Final Four appearances, becoming the first program to win back-to-back titles in nearly 20 years in 2024. If you exclude the 2019-20 season, when the COVID-19 pandemic led to the tournament being canceled, UConn arguably had the best 25-year run in the history of the sport, holding a 28% Final Four rate and a 24% championship rate. 

While UConn has soared in the 21st century, a lot of Indiana's success came before 2000. Seven of the Hoosiers' eight Final Four appearances occurred prior to the turn of the century, becoming one of college basketball's first powers. It won two national championships prior to 1970 before reaching the Final Four five times in Bob Knight's 29-year tenure as head coach. Three of those Final Four trips resulted in a national