🏀 College basketball by metro

Where the men’s game lives: every metro with a Division I program, its programs, and what they have won between them.

College basketball by metro

221 metros hold the 498 programs; 48 of them have a national title. Ranked by titles, then Final Fours, bids and wins; sort by any column.

Where this comes from

Source: each program’s metro comes from the MetroData tab of the Citizen of Nowhere college basketball workbook (the same metro as the all-time table). Titles are national championships from every selector: the NCAA tournament (1939 on) plus the retroactive Helms and Premo-Porretta champions, each season counted once per program; the small line under a total shows how many were NCAA tournament titles. Final Fours and NCAA bids are counted from each program’s season rows, and all-time wins are the Totals tab.

Results the NCAA later struck stay in every count and carry an asterisk; nothing is demoted.

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Raleigh-Durham

5 programs

14 titles

43 Final Fours, 138 bids

Los Angeles

12 programs

12 titles

21 Final Fours, 113 bids

Lexington

2 programs

12 titles

17 Final Fours, 72 bids

New York

30 programs

12 titles

9 Final Fours, 159 bids

Philadelphia

10 programs

7 titles

13 Final Fours, 144 bids

Kansas City

5 programs

6 titles

16 Final Fours, 54 bids

San Francisco-San Jose

6 programs

6 titles

9 Final Fours, 83 bids

Hartford

5 programs

6 titles

8 Final Fours, 43 bids

New Haven

3 programs

6 titles

0 Final Fours, 8 bids

Bloomington

1 program

5 titles

8 Final Fours, 41 bids

Chicago

13 programs

5 titles

4 Final Fours, 48 bids

Washington-Baltimore

15 programs

4 titles

8 Final Fours, 120 bids

#		Programs
1	Raleigh-Durham	North Carolina (7), Duke (5), North Carolina State (2), North Carolina Central, Campbell	1413 NCAA	43	138*	7,626
2	Los Angeles	UCLA (11), USC (1), Pepperdine, Long Beach State, Loyola Marymount, CSU-Fullerton, UC Irvine, CSU-Northridge, California Baptist, CSU-Los Angeles, UC Riverside, Whittier	1211 NCAA	21*	113*	9,233
3	Lexington	Kentucky (12), Eastern Kentucky	128 NCAA	17	72*	3,522
4	New York	LIU-Brooklyn (3), Columbia (3), Army (2), St. John's (1), NYU (1), CCNY (1), Princeton (1), Seton Hall, Rutgers, Iona, Manhattan, Fairleigh Dickinson, Hofstra, St. Peter's, Fordham, Monmouth, Rider, Fairfield, Wagner, Marist, Stony Brook, St. Francis (NY), Sacred Heart, Brooklyn, NJIT, Stevens, Merchant Marine, Pratt Institute, Savage School, College of New Jersey	121 NCAA	9	159*	25,248
5	Philadelphia	Villanova (3), Pennsylvania (2), Temple (1), La Salle (1), St. Joseph's, Delaware, Drexel, West Chester, Swarthmore, Widener	74 NCAA	13*	144*	11,179
6	Kansas City	Kansas (6), UMKC, Central Missouri, Baker, Haskell	64 NCAA	16	54	3,147
7	San Francisco-San Jose	California (2), San Francisco (2), Stanford (2), Santa Clara, St. Mary's, San Jose State	64 NCAA	9	83*	8,878
8	Hartford	Connecticut (6), Central Connecticut State, Hartford, Wesleyan, Trinity (CT)	6	8	43*	2,989
9	New Haven	Yale (6), Quinnipiac, New Haven	60 NCAA	0	8	2,046
10	Bloomington	Indiana (5)	5	8	41	1,965
11	Chicago	Chicago (3), Loyola-Chicago (1), Northwestern (1), DePaul, Valparaiso, Northern Illinois, Illinois-Chicago, Chicago State, Lake Forest, North Central, Northeastern Illinois, Wheaton, Lewis	51 NCAA	4	48*	7,858
12	Washington-Baltimore	Navy (2), Georgetown (1), Maryland (1), George Mason, George Washington, Mount St. Mary's, Howard, American, Coppin State, MD-Baltimore County, Loyola (MD), Towson, Morgan State, Catholic, Baltimore	42 NCAA	8	120*	12,517
13	Madison	Wisconsin (4)	41 NCAA	4	29	1,771
14	Louisville	Louisville (3*), Bellarmine	3*	10*	45*	2,033
15	Syracuse	Syracuse (3), Colgate, Le Moyne	31 NCAA	6	48*	3,591
16	Gainesville	Florida (3)	3	6	26*	1,589
17	Minneapolis	Minnesota (3), Carleton, St. Thomas, Hamline, Minnesota A&M, Macalester	30 NCAA	1*	14*	2,246
18	Lansing	Michigan State (2)	2	10	39	1,875
19	Detroit	Michigan (2), Detroit, Eastern Michigan, Oakland, Wayne State, Lawrence Tech	2	9*	48*	4,548
20	Cincinnati	Cincinnati (2), Xavier, Miami (OH), Northern Kentucky	2	6	84	5,312
21	Champaign	Illinois (2), Eastern Illinois	20 NCAA	6	38	2,546
22	Stillwater	Oklahoma State (2)	2	6	29	1,783
23	Pittsburgh	Pittsburgh (2), Duquesne, Robert Morris, Grove City, Westminster (PA), Geneva, Washington & Jefferson, Carnegie Mellon	20 NCAA	2	42	4,656
24	Indianapolis	Wabash (2), Butler, Ball State, IUPUI, DePauw, Franklin, Central Normal College	20 NCAA	2	24	3,562
25	South Bend	Notre Dame (2)	20 NCAA	1	37	1,989
26	Laramie	Wyoming (2)	21 NCAA	1	16	1,639
27	Columbia (MO)	Missouri (2)	20 NCAA	0	31*	1,758
28	Pittsfield	Williams (2)	20 NCAA	0	1	153
29	Columbus	Ohio State (1), Denison, Muskingum, Ohio Wesleyan	1	11*	36*	2,254
30	Fayetteville	Arkansas (1)	1	6	37	1,849

* Later struck from the NCAA’s official record; shown as it happened.