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
$229K · $229,293
Oregon State
$202K · $201,907
Georgia
$178K · $178,062
Southern Miss
$84K · $83,577
Boise State
$83K · $82,802
North Carolina A&T State University
$70K · $69,744
Georgia Southern
$54K · $53,554
Florida Atlantic
$50K · $49,778
New Mexico State
$49K · $49,116
App State
$47K · $47,306
Florida Gulf Coast University
$47K · $47,168
UMBC
$45K · $44,674
Western Michigan
$43K · $43,481
Marshall
$43K · $42,737
Northern Illinois
$42K · $41,605
Central Michigan
$40K · $39,676
Murray State University
$40K · $39,633
Eastern Illinois
$32K · $32,000
Georgia State
$29K · $29,106
Texas State
$27K · $27,422
California Polytechnic State University
$23K · $22,601
Kennesaw State
$18K · $18,106
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.