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Who spends the most on men's basketball recruiting

Every figure is read from the school's own NCAA financial report — the annual filing each Division I athletics department submits to the NCAA. Ranked by reported dollars, not by results.
115Schools ranked
FY2021Fiscal year
$2.65MCombined men's basketball recruiting
831Reports parsed

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.

Rank / schoolReported men's basketball recruitingChange
01

Texas

$293K · $292,569

no prior year
02

NC State

$124K · $123,604

no prior year
03

UNLV

$113K · $113,216

no prior year
04

Michigan

$99K · $99,356

no prior year
05

Ohio State

$90K · $90,218

no prior year
06

Rhode Island

$77K · $76,536

no prior year
07

Georgia

$75K · $75,081

−68% YoY
08

Texas A&M

$68K · $67,832

no prior year
09

Clemson

$66K · $66,090

no prior year
10

Kentucky

$66K · $66,081

no prior year
11

Arizona

$66K · $65,962

no prior year
12

Oklahoma

$57K · $57,444

−84% YoY
13

Purdue

$57K · $57,375

no prior year
14

Stephen F. Austin State University

$54K · $53,990

no prior year
15

East Carolina

$51K · $50,656

no prior year
16

North Carolina

$49K · $49,166

no prior year
17

Nebraska

$48K · $47,548

no prior year
18

UCLA

$42K · $42,195

no prior year
19

Texas State

$38K · $37,631

−43% YoY
20

Mississippi State

$37K · $37,105

no prior year
21

North Alabama

$36K · $35,654

no prior year
22

Missouri

$36K · $35,527

−87% YoY
23

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

$35K · $34,794

no prior year
24

Oklahoma State

$35K · $34,778

no prior year
25

Georgia Tech

$35K · $34,776

no prior year
26

University of Massachusetts Lowell

$32K · $32,491

no prior year
27

VCU

$31K · $31,442

no prior year
28

Maryland

$30K · $29,823

no prior year
29

Nevada

$24K · $24,383

no prior year
30

UC Santa Barbara

$23K · $23,330

no prior year
31

The University of North Carolina at

$22K · $22,111

no prior year
32

Southern Miss

$22K · $21,610

−67% YoY
33

North Carolina A&T State University

$21K · $20,893

−63% YoY
34

George Mason University

$21K · $20,755

no prior year
35

Utah State

$20K · $20,260

no prior year
36

Central Michigan

$20K · $20,117

−75% YoY
37

Indiana State

$20K · $19,706

no prior year
38

Kennesaw State

$19K · $19,377

−34% YoY
39

Oregon State

$19K · $19,000

−88% YoY
40

NJIT

$19K · $18,787

no prior year
41

University of Central Missouri

$18K · $18,336

no prior year
42

Sam Houston

$18K · $17,735

no prior year
43

Middle Tennessee

$18K · $17,515

no prior year
44

North Carolina Central

$17K · $17,011

no prior year
45

Boise State

$16K · $15,814

−79% YoY
46

Charlotte

$16K · $15,711

no prior year
47

California State University, Fullerton

$16K · $15,524

no prior year
48

University of Massachusetts, Amherst

$15K · $15,328

no prior year
49

South Dakota

$15K · $14,772

no prior year
50

Towson

$14K · $13,932

no prior year
51

University of Nebraska Omaha

$14K · $13,643

no prior year
52

Eastern Michigan

$14K · $13,509

no prior year
53

South Carolina

$13K · $13,272

no prior year
54

Buffalo

$13K · $12,669

−81% YoY
55

Angelo State

$13K · $12,658

no prior year
56

Montana State

$13K · $12,650

no prior year
57

Stony Brook

$13K · $12,623

no prior year
58

Southern Illinois University at Carbondale

$12K · $11,948

no prior year
59

University of Minnesota, Crookston

$12K · $11,911

no prior year
60

Weber State University

$12K · $11,734

no prior year
61

Emporia State University

$11K · $10,901

no prior year
62

Nebraska-Kearney

$11K · $10,560

no prior year
63

North Dakota State

$10K · $10,356

no prior year
64

Florida Atlantic

$10K · $10,355

−77% YoY
65

University of Hawaii, Manoa

$10K · $10,090

no prior year
66

Michigan Tech

$10K · $10,033

no prior year
67

Montana State University Billings

$10K · $9,880

no prior year
68

East Tennessee State

$9K · $9,344

no prior year
69

Illinois State University

$9K · $9,042

no prior year
70

Fresno State

$9K · $8,631

no prior year
71

Florida Gulf Coast University

$8K · $8,118

−89% YoY
72

University of California, Davis

$8K · $7,993

no prior year
73

Cameron University

$8K · $7,693

no prior year
74

UAlbany

$8K · $7,593

no prior year
75

University of North Carolina Wilmington

$7K · $7,455

no prior year
76

Eastern New Mexico University

$7K · $7,344

no prior year
77

California State University, Bakersfield

$7K · $6,975

no prior year
78

University of Missouri-Kansas City

$7K · $6,908

no prior year
79

Eastern Kentucky

$6K · $6,472

no prior year
80

University of Northern Iowa

$6K · $6,263

no prior year
81

Western Michigan

$6K · $6,128

−85% YoY
82

South Carolina State University

$6K · $6,110

no prior year
83

Fort Lewis College

$6K · $5,664

no prior year
84

Georgia State

$6K · $5,585

−86% YoY
85

Midwestern State University

$5K · $5,423

no prior year
86

California State University, Northridge

$5K · $5,324

no prior year
87

Montana

$5K · $5,261

no prior year
88

Western Carolina

$5K · $4,651

no prior year
89

Morehead State

$4K · $4,372

no prior year
90

University of West Florida

$4K · $4,274

no prior year
91

Black Hills State University

$4K · $3,701

no prior year
92

New Mexico State

$4K · $3,621

−93% YoY
93

Austin Peay State University

$4K · $3,524

no prior year
94

Idaho

$3K · $3,453

no prior year
95

Indiana

$3K · $3,263

no prior year
96

Ball State

$3K · $2,994

no prior year
97

University of Colorado, Colorado Springs

$3K · $2,737

no prior year
98

Central Washington

$3K · $2,730

no prior year
99

Oakland

$3K · $2,586

no prior year
100

University of Missouri–St. Louis

$2K · $2,358

no prior year
101

Portland State University

$2K · $2,348

no prior year
102

West Liberty University

$2K · $2,300

no prior year
103

Eastern Washington

$2K · $1,857

no prior year
104

University of Wisconsin-Green Bay

$2K · $1,667

no prior year
105

New Mexico

$1K · $1,448

no prior year
106

San José State

$1K · $1,175

no prior year
107

Idaho State

$978 · $978

−96% YoY
108

University of North Georgia

$933 · $933

no prior year
109

Albany State University (Georgia)

$649 · $649

no prior year
110

UNC Asheville

$607 · $607

no prior year
111

Southeastern Oklahoma State

$581 · $581

no prior year
112

Georgia College

$477 · $477

no prior year
113

Florida International

$267 · $267

no prior year
114

South Dakota State

$131 · $131

no prior year
115

Maine

$64 · $64

no prior year
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.