Who spends the most on women'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 women's basketball.
Georgia
$256K · $255,950
Texas
$151K · $150,977
Central Michigan
$65K · $65,153
Texas State
$63K · $63,469
Akron
$60K · $59,917
Georgia Southern
$58K · $57,746
Georgia State
$50K · $49,576
Southeast Missouri State University
$45K · $45,199
App State
$43K · $43,162
Marshall
$53 · $53
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.