List of NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Tournament bids by school

• Appearances include those made by schools in the NCAA College Division Men's Basketball Tournament, the direct predecessor to the current Division II and Division III tournaments. The NCAA did not adopt its current three-division alignment until the 1973–74 school year, when the College Division was split into Divisions II and III.
• School names reflect those in current use by their respective athletic programs, not necessarily those used when a school made an appearance in the Division II tournament. For example, Jefferson was known as Philadelphia College of Textiles & Science (athletically "Philadelphia Textile") when it won its NCAA title in 1970, and Omaha used its institutional identity of Nebraska–Omaha when it made all of its D-II tournament appearances.

*Tournament appearance vacated

The following active Division II teams are still awaiting their first tournament bids, as of 2020. Conference affiliations are current for the 2020–21 season.

• California Collegiate Athletic Association – Cal State Monterey Bay, Cal State San Marcos
• Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference – Chestnut Hill, Concordia (NY), Georgian Court, Goldey-Beacom, Nyack, Post (CT), Wilmington
• Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association – Lincoln (PA)
• Conference Carolinas – Chowan, Converse, Erskine, Lees-McRae, Southern Wesleyan
  • Converse's men's basketball team begins play in 2021–22.
• East Coast Conference – D'Youville, Mercy, Roberts Wesleyan, Staten Island
  • D'Youville and Staten Island are not eligible for the NCAA tournament until 2023–24 and 2022–23 respectively.
• Great American Conference – Northwestern Oklahoma State, Oklahoma Baptist, Southern Arkansas, Southern Nazarene
• Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Davenport, Purdue Northwest, Tiffin
• Great Lakes Valley Conference – Illinois–Springfield, Lindenwood, McKendree, Maryville, William Jewell
• Great Midwest Athletic Conference – Cedarville, Lake Erie, Malone, Ohio Valley, Trevecca Nazarene
• Great Northwest Athletic Conference – Northwest Nazarene, Simon Fraser
• Gulf South Conference – Auburn–Montgomery, Lee, Shorter
• Lone Star Conference – Oklahoma Christian, Oklahoma Panhandle State, Texas–Tyler, Western New Mexico
  • Texas–Tyler is not eligible for the NCAA tournament until 2021–22.
• Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association – Rogers State
• Mountain East Conference – Davis & Elkins, Frostburg State
  • Frostburg State is not eligible for the NCAA tournament until 2022–23.
• Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference – Concordia–St. Paul, Minnesota–Crookston, Minot State, Sioux Falls
• Pacific West Conference – Academy of Art, Biola, Dominican (CA), Fresno Pacific, Holy Names
• Peach Belt Conference – Flagler, North Georgia, Young Harris
• Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference – Seton Hill, Shepherd
• Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference – Black Hills State, Chadron State, South Dakota Mines, Westminster (UT)
• South Atlantic Conference – Coker, Mars Hill, Newberry, UVA–Wise
  • Emory & Henry is not eligible for the NCAA tournament until 2024–25.
• Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Allen, Paine, Savannah State, Spring Hill
  • Allen is not eligible for the NCAA tournament until 2023–24.
• Sunshine State Conference – Embry-Riddle, Palm Beach Atlantic

• Teams in italics are not currently in NCAA Division II.

• ¹ Vacated appearances are not included in the totals.
• ² Wins in third-place games, regional or national, are not included.

• ^D1 Program has since joined Division I.
• ^D3 Program has since joined Division III.
• ^NAIA Program has since departed the NCAA to join the NAIA.
• ^Disc Program has been discontinued or the university has closed.
• ^UTPA Texas–Pan American ceased to exist in 2015, when its merger with Texas–Brownsville, forming UTRGV, was finalized. However, the UTPA athletic program continues to exist, as it was transferred intact to UTRGV.
• ^Post LIU Post ceased to exist as a separate program in 2019, when Post and LIU Brooklyn merged to become a single LIU program.