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.
Kentucky
$1.17M · $1,167,817
Texas A&M
$1.06M · $1,059,602
UConn
$851K · $850,617
Texas
$840K · $839,610
Michigan
$679K · $679,407
Oklahoma
$633K · $632,744
Indiana
$631K · $630,551
Iowa
$616K · $616,281
Alabama
$614K · $613,780
Georgia
$515K · $515,155
NC State
$492K · $492,220
Rutgers
$470K · $470,199
Kansas State
$403K · $402,501
Virginia
$394K · $394,404
UNLV
$373K · $372,996
Missouri
$329K · $329,224
Maryland
$322K · $322,378
Nebraska
$308K · $308,415
Michigan State
$295K · $294,630
Clemson
$257K · $257,029
Oklahoma State
$254K · $253,860
VCU
$250K · $249,541
UCLA
$184K · $184,382
Oregon State
$183K · $182,608
South Carolina
$182K · $182,452
Austin Peay State University
$179K · $179,442
Florida State
$170K · $169,549
Wichita State
$164K · $163,767
Wyoming
$156K · $156,372
East Carolina
$145K · $144,784
Central Michigan
$142K · $142,063
Utah State
$142K · $141,785
Buffalo
$139K · $139,242
Arizona State
$137K · $137,165
UIC
$127K · $127,460
UC Santa Barbara
$127K · $126,911
North Carolina
$125K · $124,839
Army
$125K · $124,599
Montana
$121K · $121,210
George Mason University
$120K · $120,195
Indiana State
$119K · $118,938
College of Charleston (South Carolina)
$116K · $115,991
Weber State University
$116K · $115,941
Fresno State
$115K · $114,635
Eastern Michigan
$114K · $113,730
South Florida
$109K · $109,026
Southern Miss
$104K · $103,923
Boise State
$101K · $100,744
Murray State University
$99K · $99,484
Northern Illinois
$99K · $98,837
Stony Brook
$99K · $98,615
The University of North Carolina at
$97K · $96,955
University of North Carolina Wilmington
$96K · $96,024
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
$95K · $95,150
California State University, Bakersfield
$95K · $94,902
NJIT
$93K · $92,989
App State
$90K · $90,445
Milwaukee
$90K · $90,007
Texas State
$89K · $89,347
UAlbany
$89K · $89,074
North Dakota
$88K · $87,954
Florida Gulf Coast University
$86K · $85,641
University of Hawaii, Manoa
$83K · $83,498
California Polytechnic State University
$79K · $78,962
University of Northern Iowa
$77K · $76,821
Western Carolina
$75K · $74,539
Arkansas State
$72K · $71,538
UMBC
$71K · $70,893
University of Missouri-Kansas City
$70K · $70,053
Sam Houston
$69K · $68,850
Towson
$68K · $67,897
Florida Atlantic
$66K · $65,983
Northern Kentucky University
$65K · $65,220
Middle Tennessee
$65K · $65,160
Idaho
$65K · $65,113
University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
$63K · $63,431
Morehead State
$61K · $61,311
Florida International
$60K · $60,036
Binghamton
$59K · $58,708
Marshall
$57K · $56,912
Purdue Fort Wayne
$56K · $56,241
Eastern Washington
$53K · $53,152
Lamar
$52K · $52,147
New Mexico State
$52K · $51,951
UAB
$50K · $50,388
Winthrop
$46K · $45,670
South Dakota State
$46K · $45,526
Idaho State
$45K · $45,033
Morgan State
$41K · $41,099
Portland State University
$40K · $40,066
Georgia State
$36K · $35,826
Maine
$35K · $35,498
Western Illinois
$33K · $32,924
Oakland
$28K · $27,694
University of Central Missouri
$26K · $25,564
Eastern Illinois
$23K · $22,941
Eastern New Mexico University
$19K · $19,047
Midwestern State University
$18K · $18,343
Alabama A&M
$17K · $17,000
Emporia State University
$17K · $16,917
Nebraska-Kearney
$16K · $16,344
Central Connecticut
$16K · $15,579
Michigan Tech
$15K · $14,771
South Carolina State University
$14K · $13,755
Angelo State
$13K · $13,185
University of Minnesota, Crookston
$13K · $12,984
University of West Florida
$12K · $12,246
Fort Lewis College
$12K · $11,933
Black Hills State University
$12K · $11,588
Missouri University of Science and
$11K · $10,983
New Mexico
$10K · $9,793
Cameron University
$6K · $6,334
Montana State University Billings
$5K · $4,890
Georgia College
$4K · $3,608
Alcorn State University
$3K · $3,333
North Carolina Central
$3K · $3,000
Coppin State University
$3K · $2,953
West Virginia State University
$2K · $2,450
Southeastern Oklahoma State
$2K · $1,890
Jackson State
$473 · $473
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.