List of NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament Final Four participants

Participants

Appearances by team

Appearances by state

Final Four appearances by region

Final Four, Final Two and Champs by region

• St. Joseph's, 1961: Three players involved in a point-shaving scandal.
• Villanova, 1971: Tournament Most Valuable Player Howard Porter had signed a professional contract with the Pittsburgh Condors of the American Basketball Association during the regular season.
• Western Kentucky, 1971: Jim McDaniels had signed a professional contract with the Carolina Cougars of the American Basketball Association and accepted money during the regular season.
• UCLA, 1980: Kiki Vandeweghe and Rod Foster were declared ineligible due to their connection with recruiting violations involving booster Sam Gilbert.
• Memphis State, 1985: Leading scorer Keith Lee had received $40,000 in illegal payoffs from head coach Dana Kirk.
• The University of Michigan vacated the results of 113 games won while four players were not eligible, including the 1992 and 1993 Final Fours. See University of Michigan basketball scandal.
• Massachusetts, 1996: Marcus Camby had accepted money and gifts from a pair of sports agents.
• Minnesota, 1997: Academic fraud involving head coach Clem Haskins, five other university employees and at least eighteen players. See University of Minnesota basketball scandal.
• NCAA gave Ohio State three years' probation and ordered it to pay back all tournament money earned from 1999–2002 when Boban Savović was on the Buckeyes' roster. Ohio State had to remove all references to team accomplishments from those years including a 1999 visit to the Final Four.
• Memphis had its entire 2007–08 season vacated by the NCAA due to issues related to star guard Derrick Rose, whose SAT score was invalidated after the 07–08 season.