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
$268K · $268,066
Georgia
$204K · $204,468
Texas
$166K · $166,183
Missouri
$109K · $108,730
Buffalo
$75K · $75,016
Western Michigan
$72K · $72,209
Georgia Southern
$64K · $63,969
Texas State
$61K · $60,980
UT Arlington
$58K · $58,268
Central Michigan
$49K · $49,306
Arkansas State
$47K · $47,055
University of Nebraska Omaha
$47K · $46,974
App State
$46K · $45,868
Georgia State
$37K · $37,424
UMBC
$31K · $30,706
Montana State University Billings
$7K · $6,880
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.