College basketball fans are expanding their cable packages. Many who follow March Madness closely will want to watch as many of the 67 games in the tournament as possible. As the teams move further in the tournament, you’ll want to check out the map below of every team to ever make the Final Four at least once. Explore the groups to see teams with appearances in the Finals and who has won the tournament the most times.

View NCAA Men’s Basketball Final Four Appearances in a full screen map

Note: asterisks (*) indicate that teams that have had at least one of the marked appearances vacated due to NCAA sanctions.

Teams with 10 or More Final Four Appearances

There are 95 teams represented on this map. All have made it through the early rounds of the tournament to be part of the Final Four. More than half of those teams (59) have done so at least twice—and the following eight teams have made it to the Final Four 10 or more times:

• North Carolina (21 Final Four appearances)
• UCLA (19)
• Duke (17)
• Kentucky (17)
• Kansas (16)
• Ohio State (11)
• Louisville (10)
• Michigan State (10)

While an older version of this post noted just seven teams with 10+ appearances, Michigan State’s 2015 and 2019 Final Four appearances allowed for their addition. Who knows, maybe we’ll soon be adding Indiana to this list.

Of course, some of these teams have made it past the Final Four and into the Finals many times. Yet only UCLA (13), Kentucky (12), North Carolina (12), Duke (11), and Kansas (10) have moved forward 10 or more times. Additionally, many of these same teams have gone on to win more than any others.

NCAA Men’s Basketball Winners

Most of the teams with 10 or more Final Four appearances are amongst the most winning teams, as well. Yet wins, as opposed to Finals and even Final Four appearances, are harder to get. Just one team has earned over 10 of these:

• UCLA (11 wins)
• Kentucky (8)
• North Carolina (6)
• Duke (5)
• Indiana (5)
• Kansas (4)
• UConn (4)
• Villanova (3)
• Louisville (3)

UCLA has won 11 times, including 10 out of 12 years between 1964 and 1975 under legendary coach John Wooden. However, the team has faced somewhat of a dry spell, at least where wins are concerned: their last W was in 1995.

Meanwhile, Kentucky has won eight times, most recently in 2012. Unlike UCLA though, their only winning streak was long ago when they won three out of four years between 1948 and 1951. North Carolina has six wins out of their 21 Final Four appearances (and 12 championship game chances) for a winning percentage of X.

14 NCAA Men’s Division I Basketball Champions’ Perfect Winning Percentages

Then there are 14 teams with the most championship wins without a loss.

School	Finals	Champions	Winning Percentage (Wins / Finals)
UConn	4	4	100.00%
Louisville	3*	3*	100.00%
NC State	2	2	100.00%
San Francisco	2	2	100.00%
CCNY	1	1	100.00%
Holy Cross	1	1	100.00%
Loyola–Chicago	1	1	100.00%
Maryland	1	1	100.00%
Oregon	1	1	100.00%
Stanford	1	1	100.00%
UNLV	1	1	100.00%
UTEP	1	1	100.00%
Virginia	1	1	100.00%
Wyoming	1	1	100.00%

UCONN has the most championship wins without a loss. The Huskies of the Northeast have made the Final Four on five occasions and won all four of their championship appearances. By comparison, Kansas took 16 trips to the Final Four and 10 championship game appearances to have the same number of tournament wins.

The only other teams with perfect records throughout multiple Finals include Louisville (3), NC State (2), and San Francisco (2).

Similarly, 10 other teams have won their only championship appearance (CCNY, Holy Cross, Loyola–Chicago, Maryland, Oregon, Stanford, UNLV, UTEP, Virginia, and Wyoming). Meanwhile, 16 teams have lost in their only trip to the Finals—and 35 haven’t ever made it that far.

Improve the Accuracy of Your Bracket

If you think it’s hard to win a championship, try to correctly guess the winner. Every year millions attempt to fill out an accurate bracket beforehand and nobody has ever been perfect.

In the video above, Professor Jeff Bergen from DePaul University (two Final Four appearances, both resulting in losses) outlines the many different possible brackets. If filled out completely at random, there’s a one in nine quintillion chance of choosing every winner correctly. It’s a big number, which Bergen writes out on the board. He also goes on to estimate that knowledgeable basketball fans can get the likelihood down to one in 128 million.

Go ahead and fill out your bracket for fun. But expect to achieve the same result as 66 of the 67 teams in the tournament: another year without a victory.

For those tracking other NCAA championships, be sure to check out our map of the NCAA Football Champions.

Your relationship has had a lot of firsts. Of course, there’s your first meeting, first date, and first kiss. Depending on how long you’ve been together, you may also have marriage or even child-related milestones to celebrate.

Remembering these milestones is the idea behind those maps of your relationship that make for popular gifts around Valentine’s Day. And while those certainly are thoughtful tokens to hang on the wall, we’re in the digital age.

We want to show you how to make an online map of your milestones, which starts by jotting down the most important events of your relationship.

Jot Down the Important Events of Your Relationship

You certainly have an idea of the important milestones in your relationship—you were there, after all. But have you ever written them down?

More than just for posterity’s sake, a spreadsheet of the most important events throughout your years together will help you make your map. So go ahead and note your relationship milestones in a column within Excel or Google Sheets.

Some ideas to consider:

• Your first meeting
• First date
• First “I love you”
• Engagement
• Marriage

You might also wish to add when you first moved in together, your first vacation, or even your first fight (which may have occurred on the same day as one of the prior two events), among other events specific to your relationship.

But beyond noting the type of milestone, there are a few more details you’ll want to include.

Add Locations & Dates

In addition to writing down your milestones, you need to note a few more things about these events: locations and dates.

Each of your relationship’s moments occurred somewhere. If it’s a common enough location, such as a landmark (i.e. Library Quad, California State University, Sacramento, CA), you can include that in its own column, along with city, state, and optionally country all in separate columns. The same goes for specific locations, like business names (i.e. or Grumpy Mule Coffee, Sacramento, CA).

Beyond that, you’ll want to include addresses (i.e. 5901 Newman Ct)—though locations aren’t the only additional data you should include.

It’s equally as useful to note the date of each event, though you’ll want to include each part in its own column (i.e. Day, Month, Year). Once that’s done, we can move on to the final part: making the map!

Map Your Milestones

View Your Relationship Milestones in a full screen map

With your milestones and their details collected, it’s time to map them. There are plenty of methods for map making on the web, including ArcGIS and the Google Maps API. But for an option that doesn’t require you to purchase expensive software (as with ArcGIS) or have any programming knowledge (Google Maps API), our web-based mapping tool might just be your best bet. That’s because all you’ll need to know how to do is copy and paste.

So let’s jump into it:

1. Open your spreadsheet of relationship milestones
2. Select (Ctrl+A or Cmd+A) and copy (Ctrl+C or Cmd+C) your data
3. Open your web browser and navigate to batchgeo.com
4. Click on the location data box with the example data in it, then paste (Ctrl+V or Cmd+V) your own data
5. Check to make sure you have the proper location data columns available by clicking “Validate and Set Options”
6. Select the proper location column from each drop-down
7. Click “Make Map” and watch as the geocoder performs its process

From there, you can choose your map’s base styles, along with the marker shapes, colors, and labels. Once you’re happy with your map, send the link to the one you love most.

The age when you can legally get behind the wheel differs around the world. While the most common driving age is 18, laws in many countries allow younger drivers on the road. In one province in Canada, even 14-year-olds can join the ranks of drivers. Can they even touch the pedals?!

Also different from place to place is when you can get your learner’s permit and begin driving with parental supervision. Moreover, driving age requirements also range depending on the type of vehicle, whether car, motorcycle, or moped. So let’s take a look at the differing driving ages on the map below, then continue for driving age insights.

View Driving Ages in a full screen map

Youngest Driving Age in the World

While many in the U.S. consider 16 the average age to obtain a driver’s license, it’s actually one of the younger age requirements. Over 120 countries proclaim 18 as their minimum age, yet many others have the same lower-than-average driving age as the U.S., as you’ll see below:

• 16 years old: American Samoa, Cameroon, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Guam, Isle of Man, Northern Mariana Islands, Saudi Arabia, United States*, Zambia, and Zimbabwe
• 16.5 years old: Australia
• 17 years old: Austria, Bahamas, Cayman Islands, Falkland Islands, Fiji, Georgia, Gibraltar, Guernsey, Guyana, Iceland, Indonesia, Ireland, Jersey, Malaysia, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Trinidad and Tobago, and the United Kingdom
• 17.5 years old: New Zealand

Ten other countries join the U.S. with the youngest driving age of 16, including three Oceanic (American Samoa, Guam, and Northern Mariana Islands) and African (Cameroon, Zambia, and Zimbabwe) countries each.

Of course, the minimum driving age varies state by state in the U.S. For example, you can obtain an unrestricted license at 16 in four states: Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, and South Dakota. Meanwhile, 13 states only offer the same license to 18-year-olds, including Washington, Texas, and Florida.

Rules for driving in Australia are complex and varied. The minimum age to obtain a car or motorcycle learner license which allows driving under supervision is 15 years and 9 months, in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT). All other states and territories require learner drivers to be 16 years of age or older. Driving unsupervised by progressing to a provisional license is possible after 12 months, with minimum supervised hours (including nighttime driving) required in the form of a logbook. The exception to this is the Northern Territory, where learner drivers can progress to a provisional license after 6 months, without the need for a driving test or logbook.

On the other hand, the oldest minimum driving age is 23. That law is from Niger, even though most African countries mandate 18. Nearby, the driving age in Kuwait is 18… yet being a non-Kuwaiti raises that to 21, the same as the drinking age in seven countries. Even so, in many countries, teens can begin learning to drive much earlier.

Where 14-Year-Olds Can Get a Learner’s Permit

The lowest age of full licensure may be 16, but the minimum learner’s permit driving age can be even lower. Some drivers can be as young as 14 (with parental supervision), as you’ll find in the table below.

Country	Minimum learner’s permit age
Canada	14
United States	14
El Salvador	15
France	15
Mexico	15
Saudi Arabia	15
Austria	15.5
Northern Mariana Islands	15.5
Australia	15.75

Some parts of both Canada and the U.S. allow 14-year-olds to get learner’s permits. In Canada’s case, only one province (Alberta) has this low age. Meanwhile, Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut add a year to that (15). As for the rest of the Canadian provinces, it’s 16 to get a supervised permit.

As for what state can you drive at 14, it’s just a handful of places. Only six states (Alaska, Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, North Dakota, and South Dakota) mark the start of young drivers’ journeys at 14.

Note the rest of the countries with the youngest on the map above. Or check out the 14 countries with the oldest age requirements for a permit (17). Otherwise, we’re moving on to other types of vehicles.

Other Vehicle Types: Mopeds and Motorcycles

Car driving ages, unrestricted and supervised aside, there are other types of vehicles, such as mopeds and motorcycles. While both are motorbikes, a moped has a smaller engine, usually 50cc or less, often making the age requirement less than that of larger-engined motorcycles.

Twenty-two countries have established moped driving ages, the lowest of which is 14 in Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Switzerland, and Poland. Meanwhile, 24 countries put a limit on riding motorcycles, with Thailand having the youngest age at 15.

Check out the rest of the moped and motorcycle driving ages on the map, when you sort the map.

View What You Want, Hide What You Don’t

In your Excel file or other spreadsheet, you typically have more data than just the location column. When you map that data on the web, our geocoder intelligently finds the best home for the remaining data. Where useful, your columns may be suggested for grouping. Users of your map will be able to select only the markers that meet certain requirements, filtering out the rest. Groups can be combined to zero in on very specific results, giving you insight into the story behind the map.

For another example of how grouping can illuminate new insights into your data, check out Voting Age Around the World.