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.
UConn
$418K · $418,399
Texas
$399K · $399,197
Oklahoma
$395K · $394,779
Georgia
$326K · $325,947
Texas A&M
$306K · $305,962
North Carolina
$270K · $269,981
Kentucky
$243K · $242,710
Michigan
$213K · $213,085
Clemson
$207K · $206,709
Rutgers
$203K · $203,134
Maryland
$195K · $194,893
NC State
$184K · $183,500
Oregon State
$178K · $178,150
Florida State
$172K · $171,675
UCLA
$161K · $160,552
South Florida
$158K · $158,249
Iowa
$158K · $157,786
South Carolina
$149K · $148,949
Indiana
$147K · $147,012
Nebraska
$140K · $139,794
UNLV
$138K · $137,647
Michigan State
$129K · $129,026
Oklahoma State
$125K · $125,469
Southern Miss
$118K · $117,556
Virginia
$105K · $104,673
East Carolina
$103K · $103,408
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
$102K · $101,608
University of Hawaii, Manoa
$100K · $100,486
UC Santa Barbara
$96K · $95,669
Arizona State
$89K · $89,347
George Mason University
$88K · $87,678
UAB
$87K · $87,246
Central Michigan
$87K · $86,941
VCU
$84K · $83,730
Florida Atlantic
$81K · $80,610
Fresno State
$79K · $79,057
Wichita State
$76K · $76,325
Missouri
$76K · $75,705
Army
$73K · $73,155
Stony Brook
$72K · $71,740
Indiana State
$63K · $62,772
Texas State
$63K · $62,514
Marshall
$62K · $62,154
University of North Carolina Wilmington
$60K · $60,287
College of Charleston (South Carolina)
$60K · $60,207
NJIT
$60K · $60,079
Towson
$58K · $58,489
Western Carolina
$57K · $56,576
UIC
$55K · $54,889
Arkansas State
$54K · $53,970
Georgia State
$53K · $53,057
Middle Tennessee
$53K · $52,794
UAlbany
$53K · $52,548
Florida Gulf Coast University
$50K · $49,862
UMBC
$49K · $49,430
California State University, Bakersfield
$47K · $47,473
Austin Peay State University
$47K · $47,189
Murray State University
$47K · $47,073
Florida International
$47K · $46,947
App State
$43K · $43,105
Purdue Fort Wayne
$42K · $41,768
Binghamton
$40K · $40,087
Northern Kentucky University
$38K · $37,870
The University of North Carolina at
$36K · $36,453
Oakland
$35K · $35,185
Milwaukee
$35K · $34,933
New Mexico State
$35K · $34,840
Northern Illinois
$34K · $33,964
Maine
$30K · $29,889
Winthrop
$30K · $29,847
South Dakota State
$27K · $27,317
Eastern Illinois
$27K · $26,760
Angelo State
$22K · $22,458
Lamar
$20K · $20,243
Central Connecticut
$20K · $20,237
Sam Houston
$18K · $18,400
Morehead State
$16K · $16,344
University of Central Missouri
$16K · $15,737
Alabama A&M
$15K · $15,345
University of West Florida
$14K · $13,590
Western Illinois
$12K · $11,672
Emporia State University
$11K · $11,363
University of Minnesota, Crookston
$10K · $9,576
Montana State University Billings
$8K · $8,018
Cameron University
$8K · $7,956
Coppin State University
$8K · $7,548
New Mexico
$6K · $5,572
California Polytechnic State University
$5K · $4,847
Eastern New Mexico University
$4K · $4,024
Georgia College
$3K · $3,172
Southeastern Oklahoma State
$3K · $2,810
Jackson State
$3K · $2,771
Alcorn State University
$3K · $2,500
West Virginia State University
$1K · $1,311
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.