Results For Big Ten Teams in Final Four All Time

Purdue advanced to the 2024 Final Four on Sunday, becoming the 53rd Big Ten team to make it to the final weekend. Indiana leads with five of the league's 10 national titles, but the last one came 24 years ago when Michigan State won in 2000. Here are all the Final Four visits by league teams.

Indiana coach Bob Knight celebrates the Hoosiers' 1987 NCAA championship with Steve Alford. / Larry Crewell / Herald-Times / USA TODAY

Updated April 8, 2024, 8 am. ET

Purdue reached the Final Four in 2024, and it was their appearance in the national finals since 1980.

They are the 53rd Big Ten team to reach the Final Four. Not counting vacated runs, Ohio State has been 11 times, Michigan State 10 and Indiana and Michigan eight each to lead the league. There have been 10 national champions. with Indiana winning five titles. Michigan State has two crowns, including the most recent in 2000.

Here are all of the appearances by Big Ten schools, starting with the first tournament in 1939. Note: Schools that made the Final Four before joining the Big Ten, like Maryland and Penn State, are not listed here.

1939 — Ohio State, national runner-up. Lost to Oregon in final.

1940 — Indiana, national champion. Beat Kansas in final.

1941 — Wisconsin, national champion. Beat Washington State in final.

1944 — Ohio State, lost in national semifinal.

1945 — Ohio State, lost in national semifinal.

1946 — Ohio State, lost in national semifinal.

1949 — Illinois, lost in national semifinal.

1951 — Illinois, lost in national semifinal.

1952 — Illinois, lost in national semifinal.

1953 — Indiana, national champion. Beat Kansas in final.

1955 — Iowa, lost in national semifinal.

1956 — Iowa, national runner-up. Lost to San Francisco in final.

1957 — Michigan State, lost in national semifinal.

1960 — Ohio State, national champion. Beat California in final.

1961 — Ohio State, national runner-up. Lost to Cincinnati in final.

1962 — Ohio State, national runner-up. Lost to Cincinnati in final.

1964 — Michigan, lost in national semifinal.

1965 — Michigan, national runner-up. Lost to UCLA in final.

1968 — Ohio State, lost in national semifinal.

1969 — Purdue, national runner-up. Lost to UCLA in final.

1973 — Indiana, lost in national semifinal.

1976 — Indiana, national champion. Beat Michigan in final. Michigan, national runner-up, lost to Indiana in final.

1979 — Michigan State, national champion. Beat Indiana State in final.

1980 — Purdue, lost in national semifinal. Iowa, lost in national semifinal.

1981 — Indiana, national champion. Beat North Carolina in final.

1987 — Indiana, national champion. Beat Syracuse in final.

1989 — Michigan, national champion. Beat Seton Hall in final. Illinois, lost in national semifinal.

1992 — Michigan, national runner-up. Lost to Duke in final. Indiana, lost in national semifinal.

1993 — Michigan, national runner-up. Lost to North Carolina in final.

1997 — Minnesota, lost in national semifinal.

1999 — Michigan State, lost in national semifinal.

2000 — Michigan State, national champion. Beat Florida in final. Wisconsin lost in national semifinals.

2001 — Michigan State, lost in national semifinal.

2002 — Indiana, national runner-up. Lost to Maryland in final.

2005 — Illinois, national runner-up. Lost to North Carolina in final. Michigan State, lost in national semifinal.

2007 — Ohio State, national runner-up. Lost to Florida in final.

2009 — Michigan State, national runner-up. Lost to North Carolina in final.

2010 — Michigan State, lost in national semifinal.

2012 — Ohio State, lost in national semifinal.

2013 — Michigan, national runner-up. Lost to Louisville in final.

2014 — Wisconsin, lost in national semifinal.

2015 — Wisconsin, national runner-up. Lost to Duke in final. Michigan State, lost in national semifinal. semifinal.

2018 — Michigan, national runner-up. Lost to Villanova in final.

2019 — Michigan State, lost in national semifinal.

2024 — Purdue, national runner-up,. Lost in final to Connecticut.

National championships by school

Indiana (5): 1940, 1953, 1976, 1981, 1987.

Michigan State (2): 1979, 2000.

Wisconsin (1): 1941.

Oho State (1): 1960.

Michigan (1): 1989.

Final Four appearances by school

Ohio State (11): 1939, 1944, 1945, 1946,1960, 1961, 1962, 1968, 1999, 2007, 2012.

Michigan State (10): 1957, 1979, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2005, 2009, 2010, 2015, 2019.

Indiana (8): 1940, 1953, 1973, 1976, 1981, 1987, 1992, 2002.

Michigan (8): 1964, 1965, 1976, 1989, 1992, 1993, 2013, 2018.

Illinois (5): 1949, 1951, 1952, 1989, 2005.

Wisconsin (4): 1941, 2000, 2014, 2015

Iowa (3): 1955, 1956, 1980

Purdue (3): 1969, 1980, 2024

Minnesota (1): 1997.