Who spends the most on men's basketball recruiting
Transportation, lodging, and meals for prospective student-athletes and for staff on official and unofficial visits. These figures are the amounts each school allocated to men's basketball.
Texas
$332K · $331,945
Georgia
$280K · $279,979
Central Michigan
$151K · $150,870
Texas State
$101K · $100,755
Akron
$88K · $87,926
Marshall
$79K · $79,195
UMBC
$73K · $73,449
Southeast Missouri State University
$70K · $70,193
App State
$64K · $64,338
Georgia State
$55K · $55,437
Georgia Southern
$42K · $41,889
How to read these rankings
These figures come from filed NCAA financial reports collected in our document corpus and parsed from the report text. 831 reports parsed cleanly; 56 could not be read and are absent from these rankings, so a school missing from a year has not necessarily reported nothing.
Football and basketball views come from the report's per-sport allocation tables. They cover recruiting and team travel, not aviation alone: commercial airfare, buses, hotels, meals, and other eligible costs share the same lines. A school can also leave some expenses unallocated.
Private universities have no public-disclosure obligation and generally do not appear. Fiscal years are not uniform — most close June 30, but some schools close on a different date, so a single “FY” column compares slightly different periods. Schools also categorize inconsistently between reports, so treat cross-school gaps of a few percent as noise rather than signal.