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Who spends the most on women'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.
93Schools ranked
FY2021Fiscal year
$1.33MCombined women'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 women's basketball.

Rank / schoolReported women's basketball recruitingChange
01

Oregon State

$125K · $124,855

−38% YoY
02

Texas A&M

$71K · $70,969

no prior year
03

Arizona

$64K · $63,823

no prior year
04

Texas

$56K · $56,340

no prior year
05

Georgia

$51K · $50,551

−72% YoY
06

Georgia Tech

$44K · $43,708

no prior year
07

UNLV

$43K · $43,419

no prior year
08

Stephen F. Austin State University

$38K · $38,150

no prior year
09

Nebraska

$37K · $37,380

no prior year
10

Missouri

$37K · $36,929

no prior year
11

Oklahoma

$32K · $32,458

−86% YoY
12

North Carolina

$32K · $32,388

no prior year
13

Texas State

$31K · $30,520

+11% YoY
14

North Alabama

$30K · $29,994

no prior year
15

Rhode Island

$27K · $27,046

no prior year
16

NC State

$27K · $26,649

no prior year
17

UAlbany

$22K · $22,241

no prior year
18

Maryland

$22K · $22,064

no prior year
19

Central Michigan

$21K · $21,314

−46% YoY
20

University of Nebraska Omaha

$21K · $20,950

no prior year
21

George Mason University

$20K · $20,384

no prior year
22

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

$20K · $19,637

no prior year
23

Purdue

$18K · $18,486

no prior year
24

University of Massachusetts, Amherst

$18K · $18,258

no prior year
25

Eastern Kentucky

$18K · $18,067

no prior year
26

Southern Miss

$18K · $17,798

−79% YoY
27

Michigan

$17K · $16,925

no prior year
28

University of Massachusetts Lowell

$17K · $16,812

no prior year
29

Nevada

$17K · $16,714

no prior year
30

The University of North Carolina at

$16K · $16,108

no prior year
31

Kentucky

$16K · $15,637

no prior year
32

UC Santa Barbara

$15K · $15,464

no prior year
33

Western Michigan

$15K · $14,522

−67% YoY
34

Towson

$13K · $13,246

no prior year
35

Florida Atlantic

$13K · $12,856

−74% YoY
36

UCLA

$12K · $12,382

no prior year
37

Charlotte

$11K · $10,814

no prior year
38

South Carolina

$10K · $9,946

no prior year
39

Southern Illinois University at Carbondale

$9K · $9,355

no prior year
40

California State University, Bakersfield

$9K · $9,286

no prior year
41

Middle Tennessee

$9K · $9,206

no prior year
42

Mississippi State

$9K · $8,719

no prior year
43

Angelo State

$9K · $8,514

no prior year
44

Boise State

$8K · $8,081

−90% YoY
45

North Carolina Central

$8K · $8,000

no prior year
46

Stony Brook

$8K · $7,915

no prior year
47

Indiana State

$8K · $7,793

no prior year
48

Oklahoma State

$8K · $7,636

no prior year
49

San José State

$7K · $6,968

no prior year
50

East Carolina

$6K · $6,275

no prior year
51

Eastern New Mexico University

$6K · $5,706

no prior year
52

Emporia State University

$6K · $5,696

no prior year
53

North Carolina A&T State University

$6K · $5,567

−92% YoY
54

Oakland

$5K · $5,183

no prior year
55

Illinois State University

$5K · $4,919

no prior year
56

Central Washington

$5K · $4,739

no prior year
57

University of West Florida

$5K · $4,592

no prior year
58

East Tennessee State

$4K · $4,467

no prior year
59

Fresno State

$4K · $4,108

no prior year
60

Eastern Michigan

$4K · $3,918

no prior year
61

University of North Carolina Wilmington

$4K · $3,852

no prior year
62

University of Hawaii, Manoa

$4K · $3,825

no prior year
63

University of California, Davis

$4K · $3,704

no prior year
64

California State University, Fullerton

$4K · $3,650

no prior year
65

University of Central Missouri

$4K · $3,646

no prior year
66

UNC Asheville

$4K · $3,586

no prior year
67

Ohio State

$4K · $3,543

no prior year
68

Clemson

$3K · $3,497

no prior year
69

University of Minnesota, Crookston

$3K · $3,455

no prior year
70

North Dakota State

$3K · $2,976

no prior year
71

Montana State University Billings

$3K · $2,824

no prior year
72

California State University, Northridge

$3K · $2,643

no prior year
73

New Mexico

$3K · $2,500

no prior year
74

Sam Houston

$2K · $2,318

no prior year
75

West Liberty University

$2K · $2,086

no prior year
76

Florida Gulf Coast University

$2K · $2,066

−96% YoY
77

University of Missouri–St. Louis

$2K · $2,062

no prior year
78

University of Colorado, Colorado Springs

$2K · $1,814

no prior year
79

Kennesaw State

$2K · $1,720

−91% YoY
80

Cameron University

$2K · $1,711

no prior year
81

Maine

$2K · $1,698

no prior year
82

New Mexico State

$2K · $1,680

−97% YoY
83

VCU

$2K · $1,658

no prior year
84

Southeastern Oklahoma State

$1K · $1,442

no prior year
85

Morehead State

$1K · $1,385

no prior year
86

Florida International

$1K · $1,192

no prior year
87

Georgia State

$880 · $880

−97% YoY
88

NJIT

$660 · $660

no prior year
89

Western Carolina

$585 · $585

no prior year
90

Albany State University (Georgia)

$464 · $464

no prior year
91

Ball State

$196 · $196

no prior year
92

University of North Georgia

$125 · $125

no prior year
93

Austin Peay State University

$107 · $107

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.