Will Michigan hoops dare to join this list?

1. Alabama
2. Alabama-Birmingham
3. Alabama State
4. Albany
5. Alcorn State
6. Air Force
7. Arizona
8. Arizona State
9. Arkansas
10. Auburn
11. Austin Peay
12. Belmont
13. Boston College
14. Boston University
15. Bradley
16. Brigham Young
17. Bucknell
18. Butler
19. Cal
20. California-Santa Barbara
21. Cal State-Northridge
22. Central Connecticut
23. Central Florida
24. Central Michigan
25. Charlotte
26. Chattanooga
27. Cincinnati
28. Colorado
29. Colorado State
30. Connecticut
31. Creighton
32. Davidson
33. Dayton
34. Delaware State
35. DePaul
36. Duke
37. East Tennessee St
38. Eastern Illinois
39. Eastern Kentucky
40. Eastern Washington
41. Fairleigh-Dickinson
42. Florida
43. Florida Atlantic
44. Florida A&M
45. Fresno State
46. George Mason
47. George Washington
48. Georgetown
49. Georgia
50. Georgia State
51. Georgia Tech
52. Gonzaga
53. Hampton
54. Hawaii
55. Hofstra
56. Holy Cross
57. Illinois
58. Illinois-Chicago
59. Indiana
60. Indiana State
61. IUPUI
62. Iona
63. Iowa
64. Iowa State
65. Kansas
66. Kent State
67. Kentucky
68. Lehigh
69. Liberty
70. Louisville
71. Louisiana-Lafayette
72. Louisiana State
73. Manhattan
74. Marquette
75. Maryland
76. McNeese State
77. Memphis
78. Miami (Fl)
79. Michigan State
80. Minnesota
81. Mississippi State
82. Missouri
83. Monmouth
84. Montana
85. Murray State
86. Nevada
87. New Mexico
88. Niagara
89. North Carolina
90. NC-Asheville
91. NC-Greensboro
92. NC-Wilmington
93. NC State
94. Northern Iowa
95. Northwestern State
96. Notre Dame
97. Oakland
98. Ohio
99. Ohio State
100. Oklahoma
101. Oklahoma State
102. Old Dominion
103. Oral Roberts
104. Oregon
105. Pacific
106. Penn
107. Penn State
108. Pepperdine
109. Pittsburgh
110. Princeton
111. Providence
112. Purdue
113. Richmond
114. Sam Houston State
115. San Diego
116. San Diego State
117. Saint John's
118. Saint Joseph's
119. Saint Mary's
120. Seton Hall
121. Siena
122. South Alabama
123. South Carolina
124. South Carolina State
125. Southeast Louisiana
126. Southern
127. Southern Cal
128. Southern Illinois
129. Stanford
130. Syracuse
131. Temple
132. Tennessee
133. Texas
134. Texas A&M
135. Texas-El Paso
136. Texas-San Antonio
137. Texas Southern
138. Texas Tech
139. Troy
140. Tulsa
141. UCLA
142. Utah
143. Utah State
144. Valparaiso
145. Vanderbilt
146. Vermont
147. Villanova
148. Virginia
149. Virginia Commonwealth
150. Wagner
151. Wake Forest
152. Washington
153. Weber State
154. West Virginia
155. Western Michigan
156. Western Kentucky
157. Wichita State
158. Winthrop
159. Wisconsin
160. Wisconsin-Milwaukee
161. Wyoming
162. Xavier

Just take a look at this list. Since the day Tommy Amaker was hired as head coach of Michigan in March of 2001, this is a list of schools that have played in the NCAA basketball tournament. That's 162 schools that have done what Michigan hasn't been able to. If somebody wants to argue that Michigan can't compete for a national title without major upgrades to Crisler and a practice facility, so be it. Just don't use that facilities talk as a reason why Michigan can't make the NCAA tournament when so many teams have been able to do it over the last few years.


I hesitate to even extend the list to include schools that have made it since Michigan last played in the NCAA tournament in 1998.