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.
Oklahoma
$370K · $370,116
Missouri
$266K · $265,527
Georgia
$233K · $233,331
Oregon State
$153K · $153,316
Central Michigan
$82K · $81,821
California Polytechnic State University
$78K · $78,327
Boise State
$76K · $75,551
Florida Gulf Coast University
$71K · $71,253
Texas State
$66K · $66,140
Buffalo
$66K · $65,783
Southern Miss
$65K · $64,941
UMBC
$62K · $61,581
Georgia Southern
$57K · $57,499
North Carolina A&T State University
$56K · $56,081
New Mexico State
$52K · $51,544
App State
$48K · $47,587
Florida Atlantic
$45K · $45,181
Western Michigan
$42K · $42,039
Georgia State
$39K · $39,151
Murray State University
$34K · $33,944
Kennesaw State
$29K · $29,386
Idaho State
$23K · $23,325
Marshall
$22K · $21,536
Eastern Illinois
$17K · $16,635
Northern Illinois
$14K · $14,348
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.