All-Time Champions
| ALL-TIME NJCAA DI MEN'S BASKETBALL CHAMPIONS | 2020 - Present | ||||||
| YEAR | CHAMPION | SCORE | RUNNER UP | SCORE | ||
| 2025 | Trinity Valley (TX) | 69 | Connors State (OK) | 61 | ||
| 2024 | Barton (KS) | 88 | Triton (IL) | 73 | ||
| 2023 | John A. Logan (IL) | 73 | Northwest Florida State | 70 | ||
| 2022 | Northwest Florida State | 83 | Salt Lake (UT) | 67 | ||
| 2021 | Coffeyville (KS) | 108 | Cowley (KS) | 99 | ||
| 2020 | No tournament held due to COVID-19 | |||||
| ALL-TIME NJCAA DI MEN'S BASKETBALL CHAMPIONS | 2010 - 2019 | ||||||
| YEAR | CHAMPION | SCORE | RUNNER UP | SCORE | ||
| 2019 | Vincennes (IN) | 87 | Ranger (TX) | 77 | ||
| 2018 | South Plains (TX) | 98 | Southern Idaho | 95 | ||
| 2017 | Hutchinson (KS) | 84 | Eastern Florida State | 58 | ||
| 2016 | Salt Lake (UT) | 74 | Hutchinson (KS) | 64 | ||
| 2015 | Northwest Florida State | 83 | South Plains (TX) | 80 | ||
| 2014 | Jones County Junior College | 87 | Indian Hills (IA) | 77 | ||
| 2013 | Central Florida | 74 | Northwest Florida State | 69 | ||
| 2012 | South Plains (TX) | 81 | Northwest Florida State | 68 | ||
| 2011 | Southern Idaho | 72 | Midland (TX) | 64 | ||
| 2010 | Howard (TX) | 85 | Three Rivers (MO) | 80 (OT) | ||
| ALL-TIME NJCAA DI MEN'S BASKETBALL CHAMPIONS | 2000-09 | ||||||
| YEAR | CHAMPION | SCORE | RUNNER UP | SCORE | ||
| 2009 | Salt Lake (UT) | 67 | Midland (TX) | 60 | ||
| 2008 | South Plains (TX) | 67 | Salt Lake (UT) | 56 | ||
| 2007 | Midland (TX) | 94 | Chipola (FL) | 75 | ||
| 2006 | Arkansas-Fort Smith | 68 | Tallahassee (FL) | 59 | ||
| 2005 | Paris (TX) | 70 | Moberly Area (MO) | 61 | ||
| 2004 | Southeastern (IA) | 58 | Redlands (OK) | 43 | ||
| 2003 | Southeastern (IA) | 76 | San Jacinto-Central (TX) | 68 | ||
| 2002 | Dixie State (UT) | 82 | Coffeyville (KS) | 81 | ||
| 2001 | Wabash Valley (IL) | 89 | Allegany (MD) | 83 | ||
| 2000 | Southeastern (IA) | 84 | John C. Calhoun State (AL) | 70 | ||
| ALL-TIME NJCAA DI MEN'S BASKETBALL CHAMPIONS | 1990-99 | ||||||
| YEAR | CHAMPION | SCORE | RUNNER UP | SCORE | ||
| 1999 | Indian Hills (IA) | 100 | Barton County (KS) | 86 | ||
| 1998 | Indian Hills (IA) | 83 | Shelby State (TN) | 68 | ||
| 1997 | Indian Hills (IA) | 89 | San Jacinto (TX) | 80 | ||
| 1996 | Sullivan (KY) | 104 | Allegany (MD) | 98 (OT) | ||
| 1995 | Okaloosa-Walton (FL) | 79 | Spartanburg Methodist (SC) | 63 | ||
| 1994 | Hutchinson (KS) | 78 | Three Rivers (MO) | 74 | ||
| 1993 | Pensacola (FL) | 79 | Butler County (KS) | 74 | ||
| 1992 | Three Rivers (MO) | 78 | Butler County (KS) | 77 | ||
| 1991 | Aquinas (TN) | 74 | Arizona Western | 68 | ||
| 1990 | Connors State (OK) | 103 | Southern Idaho | 87 | ||
| ALL-TIME NJCAA DI MEN'S BASKETBALL CHAMPIONS | 1980-89 | ||||||
| YEAR | CHAMPION | SCORE | RUNNER UP | SCORE | ||
| 1989 | Northeastern Oklahoma A&M | 83 | Northeast Mississippi | 76 | ||
| 1988 | Hutchinson (KS) | 76 | Kankakee (IL) | 74 | ||
| 1987 | Southern Idaho | 69 | Midland (TX) | 68 | ||
| 1986 | San Jacinto (TX) | 84 | Vincennes (IN) | 78 | ||
| 1985 | Dixie State (UT) | 57 | Kankakee (IL) | 55 | ||
| 1984 | San Jacinto (TX) | 86 | Independence (KS) | 82 | ||
| 1983 | San Jacinto (TX) | 73 | Seminole State (OK) | 68 | ||
| 1982 | Midland (TX) | 93 | Miami Dade-North (FL) | 88 (OT) | ||
| 1981 | Westark (AR) | 67 | Lincoln (IL) | 50 | ||
| 1980 | Western Texas | 85 | Jefferson State (AL) | 72 | ||
| ALL-TIME NJCAA DI MEN'S BASKETBALL CHAMPIONS | 1970-79 | ||||||
| YEAR | CHAMPION | SCORE | RUNNER UP | SCORE | ||
| 1979 | Three Rivers (MO) | 60 | Mercer County (NJ) | 59 (OT) | ||
| 1978 | Independence (KS) | 62 | Niagara County (NY) | 61 | ||
| 1977 | Independence (KS) | 75 | San Jacinto (TX) | 72 | ||
| 1976 | Southern Idaho | 62 | Mercer County (NJ) | 50 | ||
| 1975 | Western Texas | 65 | Southern Idaho | 57 | ||
| 1974 | Mercer County (NJ) | 60 | Chipola (FL) | 58 | ||
| 1973 | Mercer County(NJ) | 80 | Vacated | 61 | ||
| 1972 | Vincennes (IN) | 73 | Ferrum (VA) | 61 | ||
| 1971 | Ellsworth (IA) | 80 | Southern Idaho | 71 | ||
| 1970 | Vincennes (IN) | 85 | Moberly Area (MO) | 67 | ||
| ALL-TIME NJCAA DI MEN'S BASKETBALL CHAMPIONS | 1960-69 | ||||||
| YEAR | CHAMPION | SCORE | RUNNER UP | SCORE | ||
| 1969 | Paducah (KY) | 79 | Robert Morris (PA) | 76 | ||
| 1968 | San Jacinto(TX) | 66 | Mercer County (NJ) | 64 | ||
| 1967 | Moberly Area (MO) | 56 | San Jacinto (TX) | 55 | ||
| 1966 | Moberly Area (MO) | 90 | Cameron (OK) | 66 | ||
| 1965 | Vincennes (IN) | 80 | Burlington (IA) | 76 | ||
| 1964 | Dodge City (KS) | 73 | Casper (WY) | 68 | ||
| 1963 | Independence (KS) | 73 | Moberly Area (MO) | 68 (OT) | ||
| 1962 | Coffeyville (KS) | 74 | Lon Morris (TX) | 49 | ||
| 1961 | Pueblo (CO) | 79 | Tyler (TX) | 66 | ||
| 1960 | Parsons (KS) | 73 | Tyler (TX) | 71 | ||
| ALL-TIME NJCAA DI MEN'S BASKETBALL CHAMPIONS | 1950-59 | ||||||
| YEAR | CHAMPION | SCORE | RUNNER UP | SCORE | ||
| 1959 | Weber (UT) | 57 | Bethany Lutheran (MN) | 47 | ||
| 1958 | Kilgore (TX) | 68 | Weber (UT) | 57 | ||
| 1957 | San Angelo (TX) | 63 | Eastern Arizona | 51 | ||
| 1956 | Kilgore (TX) | 68 | Hannibal-LaGrange (MO) | 65 | ||
| 1955 | Moberly Area (MO) | 71 | Hannibal-LaGrange (MO) | 64 (2OT) | ||
| 1954 | Moberly Area (MO) | 54 | Snow (UT) | 49 (OT) | ||
| 1953 | El Dorado (KS) | 80 | Arkansas City (KS) | 64 | ||
| 1952 | Wharton County (TX) | 78 | Hibbing (MN) | 76 | ||
| 1951 | Tyler (TX) | 93 | Ventura (CA) | 75 | ||
| 1950 | Los Angeles (CA) | 67 | Northeast (MS) | 63 | ||
| ALL-TIME NJCAA DI MEN'S BASKETBALL CHAMPIONS | 1948-49 | ||||||
| YEAR | CHAMPION | SCORE | RUNNER UP | SCORE | ||
| 1949 | Tyler (TX) | 66 | Hutchinson (KS) | 64 | ||
| 1948 | Marin (CA) | 48 | Murray (OK) | 34 | ||
NOTES: In 1945, weakened by World War II and not yet ready to renew full-scale national activities, NJCAA leaders gave blessings to member colleges in the launch of an invitational basketball tournament. From 1945-47, the Western States Basketball Tournament featured some of the best two-year college teams from across the country. Though not credited with the official 'national champion' declaration, it is worth noting the champions of those invitational tournaments: 1945 - Pasadena (CA), 1946 - Sacramento (CA), 1947 - Compton (CA).
The success of the Western States Basketball Tournament laid the groundwork for the creation of the official NJCAA regional and national championship structure that exists today. The first NJCAA Men's Basketball Championship took place at the Southwest Missouri State Fieldhouse in Springfield, Missouri, in 1948. A year later it would be relocated to Hutchinson, Kansas.