The longest active NCAA tournament streaks

Making a bed in the NCAA basketball tournament is difficult. The joint establishment of these performances is even more demanding.

Consider this: Since the NCAA tournament began in 1939 as a tidy eight -member affair, only five division and division programs created a field for 20 or more consecutive years. Maintaining perfection in Basketball at College is not an easy task.

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Here is a view of the longest active tournament stripes NCAA. Note that Kansas has a presented court 35-1990-but its appearance 2018 was later released Iarp.

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1st Michigan State (27)

Tom Izzo took over the command in Eastern Lansing before the 1995-96 season and replaced his chief Jud Heathcote. The first two seasons did not go according to plan, because the Spartans had a combined record of 33-28 and were included in the thread each season.

But Izzo’s program broke in its third season in a big way. In 1998, the Spartans participated in the title of Big and advanced to Sweet 16 NCAA tournaments.

Now Izzo is synonymous with success in Postseason and leads Spartans to eight finals. In 2000, Izzo’s Spartans won the whole thing.

2023-24 The Spartans acquired seed no. 9 in the NCAA tournament.

2. Gonzaga (26)

How about coaching career? In the 26 seasons as the best man in Spokane, coach Mark reached several every year at the NCAA tournament and never won less than 23 games in the season.

The impressive NCAA tournament of the Zags tournament began in 1999, when few were assistant Dan Monson. This team won 28 games and achieved ELITE EIGH. Monson headed to Minnesota, and few slipped into one seat and raised the program, making Gonzaga a permanent player on the national scene. In addition to the 2001-02 season, ZAGS was included in the AP TOP 25 survey in each season.

Speaking of it, ZAGS went to wire No. 1 in the AP survey in 2020-21. Gonzaga was appointed total seed no. 1 for the 2021 NCAA tournament and reached the final. Bulldogs were again the total seed no. 1 in 2022, which reached Sweet 16.

List (by 2025)

Brian Mull contributed to the original version of this story in 2015.