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
$582K · $582,133
Oklahoma
$377K · $377,414
Georgia
$341K · $341,064
Missouri
$303K · $302,879
Buffalo
$129K · $129,229
Central Michigan
$126K · $125,867
Boise State
$122K · $121,885
Arkansas State
$113K · $113,433
Ball State
$103K · $103,318
Texas State
$89K · $88,541
Western Michigan
$87K · $87,282
Georgia State
$81K · $81,287
UMBC
$68K · $68,353
Georgia Southern
$68K · $67,860
University of Nebraska Omaha
$53K · $52,775
App State
$48K · $47,826
UT Arlington
$43K · $42,878
Montana State University Billings
$17K · $17,058
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.