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
$266K · $265,627
Virginia
$177K · $176,937
Texas
$153K · $152,919
Buffalo
$87K · $86,516
UT Arlington
$79K · $78,512
Central Michigan
$55K · $54,563
Georgia State
$52K · $52,124
Northern Illinois
$33K · $32,523
Montana State University Billings
$7K · $6,855
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.