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.
Oklahoma
$260K · $260,488
Georgia
$192K · $191,514
Missouri
$146K · $145,753
Texas
$142K · $141,773
Georgia Southern
$84K · $84,186
Buffalo
$78K · $77,697
Georgia State
$66K · $66,266
App State
$63K · $62,554
Texas State
$61K · $61,443
Western Michigan
$61K · $60,767
Coastal Carolina
$53K · $53,298
Arkansas State
$53K · $52,632
Northern Kentucky
$50K · $49,686
Central Michigan
$45K · $45,301
UMBC
$40K · $40,311
UT Arlington
$39K · $39,381
Radford
$38K · $37,612
Murray State
$26K · $26,045
Montana State University Billings
$3K · $3,214
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.