NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament records

All-time coaching records
Active coaches in bold

NCAA Championships
* Does not include appearances vacated by NCAA

NCAA Tournament appearances
† NCAA vacated 4–4 tournament record (2005–06, 2011–12), but confirmed Syracuse can claim tournament appearances. †† NCAA vacated 15–3 tournament record (2012–15) ††† NCAA vacated 4–1 tournament record (1971)

Consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances
Teams in bold denote an active streak as of the 2023 tournament

NCAA Tournament victories

 * Margin of 10 points: Oregon (1939), Kentucky (1949), San Francisco (1956), Ohio State (1960), UCLA (1967, 1970, 1973), Michigan State (1979, 2000), Indiana (1981), Duke (2001), North Carolina (2009), Villanova (2018), and UConn (2023) are teams to win every game in the tournament by 10 points or more on their way to a championship.

Individual single-game records

 * Points
 * 61, Austin Carr, Notre Dame vs. Ohio, 1970


 * Field goals
 * 25, Austin Carr, Notre Dame vs. Ohio, 1970


 * Field goal attempts
 * 44, Austin Carr, Notre Dame vs. Ohio, 1970


 * Three-point field goals
 * 11, Jeff Fryer, Loyola Marymount vs. Michigan, 1990


 * Three-point field goal attempts
 * 22, Jeff Fryer, Loyola Marymount vs. Arkansas, 1989


 * Free throws made
 * 23, Bob Carney, Bradley vs. Colorado, 1954
 * 23, Travis Mays, Texas vs. Georgia, 1990


 * Free throws attempted
 * 27, Travis Mays, Texas vs. Georgia, 1990
 * 27, David Robinson, Navy vs. Syracuse, 1986


 * Rebounds
 * 34, Fred Cohen, Temple vs. Connecticut, 1956


 * Assists
 * 19, Markquis Nowell, Kansas State vs. Michigan State, 2023


 * Blocked shots
 * 11, Shaquille O'Neal, LSU vs. BYU, 1992


 * Steals
 * 8, Ty Lawson, North Carolina vs. Michigan State, 2009
 * 8, Russ Smith, Louisville vs. North Carolina A&T, 2013
 * 8, JD Notae, Arkansas vs. New Mexico State, 2022


 * Triple-doubles (see Final Four records section for other tournament triple-doubles)
 * The NCAA officially recorded assists for two seasons in the early 1950s, but discontinued the practice after the 1951–52 season, not resuming until the 1984–85 season. Steals and blocks were not officially added as NCAA statistics until the 1986–87 season. As a result, the NCAA only officially recognizes tournament triple-doubles recorded from 1987 onward.
 * Gary Grant, Michigan — 24 points, 10 rebounds, 10 assists vs. North Carolina, East Regional second round, March 14, 1987
 * Shaquille O'Neal, LSU — 26 points, 13 rebounds, 11 blocks vs. BYU, West Regional first round, March 19, 1992
 * David Cain, St. John's — 12 points, 11 rebounds, 11 assists vs. Texas Tech, East Regional first round, March 18, 1993
 * Andre Miller, Utah — 18 points, 14 rebounds, 13 assists vs. Arizona, West Regional Final, March 21, 1998
 * Dwyane Wade, Marquette — 29 points, 11 rebounds, 11 assists vs. Kentucky, Midwest Regional Final, March 29, 2003
 * Cole Aldrich, Kansas — 13 points, 20 rebounds, 10 blocks vs. Dayton, Midwest Regional Second Round, March 22, 2009
 * Draymond Green, Michigan State — 23 points, 11 rebounds, 10 assists vs. UCLA, Southeast Regional Second Round, March 18, 2011
 * Draymond Green, Michigan State — 24 points, 12 rebounds, 10 assists vs. LIU Brooklyn, West Regional Second Round, March 16, 2012
 * Ja Morant, Murray State — 17 points, 11 rebounds, 16 assists vs. Marquette, West Regional First Round, March 21, 2019

All tournament games

 * Most total points scored, one tournament
 * 571, UNLV, 1990


 * Most combined points
 * 264, Loyola Marymount vs. Michigan, 1990


 * Most points by a single team
 * 149, Loyola Marymount vs. Michigan, 1990


 * Fewest points for a single team
 * 20, North Carolina vs. Pittsburgh, 1941


 * Most Field Goals Made
 * 52, Iowa vs. Notre Dame, 1970


 * Field Goals Attempted
 * 71, Marshall vs. Southwestern Louisiana, 1972


 * Three-point Field Goals
 * 26, Kansas vs. Villanova, 2022


 * Three-point Field Goal Attempts
 * 59, Purdue vs. Virginia, 2019


 * Free Throws Made
 * 43, Arizona vs. Illinois, 2001


 * Free Throws Attempted
 * 56, Arizona vs. Illinois, 2001


 * Rebounds
 * 86, Notre Dame vs. Tennessee Tech, 1958


 * Assists
 * 36, North Carolina vs. Loyola Marymount, 1988


 * Blocked Shots
 * 15, Kentucky vs. Stony Brook, 2016


 * Steals
 * 20, Louisville vs. North Carolina A&T, 2013


 * Combined Steals
 * 35, UCLA vs. Kansas, 2007

National Championship game

 * Most combined points
 * 182, Kentucky vs. Duke, 1978


 * Most points by a single team
 * 103, UNLV vs. Duke, 1990


 * Largest margin at halftime
 * 21, North Carolina vs. Michigan State, 2009


 * Largest score at halftime
 * 55, North Carolina vs. Michigan State, 2009


 * Largest margin of victory
 * 30, UNLV vs. Duke, 1990

Final Four records
Final Four Single Game – Individual
 * Points
 * 58, Bill Bradley, Princeton vs. Wichita State, N3rd, 3-20-1965


 * Field goals made
 * 22, Bill Bradley, Princeton vs. Wichita State, N3rd, 3-20-1965


 * Field goals attempted
 * 42, Lennie Rosenbluth, North Carolina vs. Michigan State, NSF, 3-22-1957


 * Three-point field goals
 * 10, Freddie Banks, UNLV vs. Indiana, NSF, 3-28-1987


 * Rebounds
 * 27, Bill Russell, San Francisco vs. Iowa, CH, 3-23-1956


 * Assists
 * 18, Mark Wade, UNLV vs. Indiana, NSF, 3-28-1987


 * Blocks
 * 7, Jeff Withey, Kansas vs. Ohio State, NSF, 3-31-2012


 * Free throws attempted
 * 18, Ty Lawson, North Carolina vs. Michigan State, CH, 4-6-2009


 * Steals
 * 8, Ty Lawson, North Carolina vs. Michigan State, CH, 4-6-2009


 * Final Four triple-doubles
 * The NCAA recognizes these achievements as unofficial triple-doubles. As noted earlier, assists, steals, and blocks were not kept on a national basis until well into the 1980s; the current array of national statistics did not fully take shape until the 1986–87 season.
 * B.H. Born, Kansas vs. Indiana, CH, 3-18-1953: 26 pts., 15 rebs. & 13 blocked shots.
 * Oscar Robertson, Cincinnati vs. Louisville, N3rd, 3-21-1959: 39 pts., 17 rebs. & 10 asts.
 * Magic Johnson, Michigan State vs. Penn, NSF, 3-24-1979: 29 pts., 10 rebs. & 10 asts.


 * Largest margin of victory: 44, Villanova vs. Oklahoma, 4-2-2016

Key to initials: NSF- National Semi-Final; N3rd – National Third-Place Game (Discontinued after 1981); CH – Championship Game.