1993–94 NCAA Division I men's basketball season

The 1993–94 NCAA Division I men's basketball season began in November 1993 and concluded in the 64-team 1994 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament, whose finals were held at the Charlotte Coliseum in Charlotte, North Carolina. The Arkansas Razorbacks earned their first national championship by defeating the Duke Blue Devils 76–72 on April 4, 1994. The Razorbacks were coached by Nolan Richardson and the NCAA Division I basketball tournament Most Outstanding Player was Arkansas's Corliss Williamson.

In championship game of the 32-team 1994 National Invitation Tournament, the Villanova Wildcats defeated the Vanderbilt Commodores at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

Following the season, the 1994 NCAA Men's Basketball All-American Consensus First Team included Grant Hill, Jason Kidd, Donyell Marshall, Glenn Robinson, and Clifford Rozier.

• Nolan Richardson led the Arkansas Razorbacks to their first national championship, also his first.
• The East Coast Conference resumed conference play after a one-season hiatus. However, it disbanded at the end of the season.

Beginning in 1993–94, the following rules changes were implemented:

• The shot clock was shortened from 45 seconds to 35 seconds per possession
• The game clock stopped on any made field goal with under one minute remaining in the second half and any overtime period(s)

The top 25 from the pre-season AP and Coaches Polls.

These schools joined new conferences for the 1993–94 season.

Thirty conferences concluded their seasons with a single-elimination tournament, with only the Big Ten Conference, Ivy League, and Pac-10 Conference choosing not to conduct conference tournaments. Conference tournament winners, with the exception of those of the East Coast Conference, Great Midwest Conference, and Midwestern Collegiate Conference, received an automatic bid to the 1994 NCAA tournament.

Six schools played as independents. They had no postseason play.

For the third consecutive season, the Philadelphia Big 5 did not play a full round-robin schedule in which each team met each other team once, a format it had used from its first season of competition in 1955–56 through the 1990–91 season. Instead, each team played only two games against other Big 5 members, and Penn and Temple both finished with 2–0 records in head-to-head competition among the Big 5. The Big 5 did not revive its full round-robin schedule until the 1999–2000 season.

Source for additional stats categories

• Wooden Award: Glenn Robinson, Purdue

• Naismith Award: Glenn Robinson, Purdue

• Associated Press Player of the Year: Glenn Robinson, Purdue

• NABC Player of the Year: Glenn Robinson, Purdue

• Oscar Robertson Trophy (USBWA): Glenn Robinson, Purdue

• Adolph Rupp Trophy: Glenn Robinson, Purdue

• Sporting News Player of the Year: Glenn Robinson, Purdue

• UPI College Basketball Player of the Year: Glenn Robinson, Purdue

• USBWA Freshman of the Year: Joe Smith, Maryland

• Associated Press Coach of the Year: Norm Stewart, Missouri

• Henry Iba Award (USBWA): Charlie Spoonhour, Saint Louis

• NABC Coach of the Year: Gene Keady, Purdue & Nolan Richardson, Arkansas

• Naismith College Coach of the Year: Nolan Richardson, Arkansas

• Sporting News Coach of the Year: Norm Stewart, Missouri

• NABC Defensive Player of the Year: Jim McIlvaine, Marquette

• Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award (Best player under 6'0): Greg Brown, New Mexico

• Robert V. Geasey Trophy (Top player in Philadelphia Big 5): Eddie Jones, Temple

• NIT/Haggerty Award (Top player in New York City metro area): Izett Buchanan, Marist & Artūras Karnišovas, Seton Hall