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
$707K · $707,446
Oklahoma
$336K · $336,137
Georgia
$300K · $299,691
Missouri
$272K · $271,853
Boise State
$138K · $137,514
Central Michigan
$108K · $108,189
Texas State
$94K · $94,174
Coastal Carolina
$90K · $90,186
Buffalo
$90K · $89,929
Arkansas State
$88K · $87,553
Murray State
$74K · $74,415
Georgia State
$74K · $74,333
Northern Kentucky
$73K · $73,266
Western Michigan
$70K · $69,750
UMBC
$68K · $68,223
App State
$66K · $65,650
Georgia Southern
$58K · $58,490
Radford
$47K · $46,687
UT Arlington
$31K · $31,069
Montana State University Billings
$10K · $10,173
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.