I don’t really follow basketball. So, it is odd that I even registered this tweet from Dennis Kavelman, @dkavelman:

  Team D2L has 4 schools in sweet sixteen! Go #marquette, #arizona, #msu, #osu! @desire2learn

He is excited because four universities who are clients of his company are in the major NCAA basketball championship contest. If only four are Deseire2Learn customers, then that means the other twelve are not. That made me wonder what are the Learning Management Systems used by these sixteen schools?

1. Louisville : Blackboard
2. Oregon : Blackboard
3. Michigan State : D2L
4. Duke : Sakai
5. Wichita State : Blackboard
6. La Salle : Blackboard
7. Arizona : D2L
8. Ohio State : D2L
9. Kansas : Blackboard
10. Michigan : Sakai
11. Florida : Sakai
12. Florida Gulf Coast : Angel (Blackboard) and Canvas in 39 days
13. Indiana : Sakai
14. Syracuse : Blackboard
15. Marquette : D2L
16. Miami (FL) : Blackboard

Looks like the breakdown is:

Blackboard 8
Desire2Learn: 4
Sakai: 4

This is an interesting grouping. I kind of knew Sakai tended to be the product of choice for well off schools with the money to spend on customization. So, schools with strong athletics probably are more likely to have something like Sakai. Of course, I expect Canvas to be better represented too as it is hot of late. While Moodle tends to be favored by really small schools without a budget, I still figured it would have some representation (really just FGCU).

Which LMSes will be involved with those in the Final Four?