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.
UConn
$906K · $905,719
Texas
$744K · $743,588
Louisville
$737K · $736,928
Oklahoma
$684K · $683,942
Michigan
$656K · $656,109
Alabama
$638K · $637,917
Kansas
$590K · $589,726
Iowa
$547K · $547,144
Texas Tech
$529K · $529,109
Indiana
$524K · $523,978
Arizona
$468K · $467,568
Purdue
$430K · $429,737
Oklahoma State
$426K · $426,183
Nebraska
$410K · $410,057
Auburn
$406K · $405,507
Mississippi State
$400K · $399,727
Georgia
$399K · $399,478
Texas A&M
$355K · $355,143
Rutgers
$347K · $347,171
NC State
$330K · $330,299
Virginia
$328K · $328,007
UNLV
$315K · $315,327
UC Santa Barbara
$305K · $304,582
Michigan State
$277K · $277,383
Wyoming
$253K · $253,080
Georgia Tech
$245K · $245,475
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
$215K · $215,280
Florida
$214K · $213,518
VCU
$213K · $213,095
Clemson
$212K · $212,027
Arizona State
$210K · $209,939
Florida State
$195K · $194,736
Colorado State
$185K · $185,128
South Florida
$182K · $182,468
Fresno State
$182K · $182,167
Charlotte
$182K · $181,608
Missouri State
$176K · $175,637
Texas State
$164K · $163,942
San José State
$163K · $163,365
Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
$157K · $156,582
Murray State University
$151K · $150,654
Northern Illinois
$149K · $149,291
Nevada
$148K · $148,378
Oregon State
$143K · $143,299
Central Michigan
$142K · $142,016
East Carolina
$140K · $139,729
UCLA
$139K · $139,077
Memphis
$139K · $138,789
George Mason University
$139K · $138,552
UAB
$134K · $133,562
San Diego State
$129K · $129,227
Boise State
$128K · $128,434
Buffalo
$127K · $126,861
Eastern Michigan
$127K · $126,549
Stony Brook
$123K · $123,119
University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
$121K · $120,871
Arkansas State
$116K · $115,775
University of Hawaii, Manoa
$114K · $114,435
Indiana State
$114K · $114,137
University of Missouri-Kansas City
$112K · $112,004
Tarleton State University
$110K · $109,824
Long Beach State
$110K · $109,798
Florida Gulf Coast University
$108K · $108,372
Montana State
$107K · $107,407
Radford
$107K · $106,941
Montana
$104K · $103,829
South Dakota
$102K · $102,039
Oakland
$102K · $101,731
Stephen F. Austin State University
$97K · $96,732
California State University, Fullerton
$93K · $92,996
Maine
$92K · $92,431
Army
$92K · $91,899
Longwood
$90K · $90,008
Vermont
$89K · $89,194
North Dakota State
$87K · $87,391
North Dakota
$86K · $85,804
UAlbany
$81K · $81,278
Florida International
$79K · $79,178
Southern Miss
$79K · $79,096
Florida Atlantic
$78K · $78,017
University of Nebraska at Omaha
$78K · $77,960
California State University, Northridge
$78K · $77,908
Morehead State
$77K · $77,358
California Polytechnic State University
$76K · $75,518
Kennesaw State
$74K · $74,137
University of Northern Iowa
$72K · $71,987
South Carolina State University
$72K · $71,928
Sam Houston
$70K · $69,713
Northern Kentucky University
$69K · $69,179
Eastern Kentucky
$68K · $67,955
South Dakota State
$64K · $63,821
Chattanooga
$63K · $62,586
Eastern Washington
$62K · $62,463
Binghamton
$61K · $61,379
William & Mary
$60K · $59,639
Georgia State
$57K · $57,397
Western Michigan
$57K · $57,092
Middle Tennessee
$57K · $56,529
Towson
$56K · $56,150
Lamar
$54K · $54,210
University of California, Davis
$54K · $54,135
Ball State
$54K · $53,967
Georgia Southern
$53K · $52,503
Illinois State University
$50K · $49,781
South Alabama
$48K · $48,124
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
$44K · $44,174
The Citadel
$44K · $44,062
Western Carolina
$37K · $37,477
Winthrop
$37K · $36,507
North Alabama
$36K · $36,052
University of South Carolina Upstate
$35K · $34,733
UC Riverside
$35K · $34,579
Norfolk State
$30K · $29,786
Portland State University
$29K · $29,239
California State University, East Bay
$28K · $28,034
Austin Peay State University
$26K · $26,196
Eastern Illinois
$23K · $23,183
VMI
$22K · $22,271
Morgan State
$22K · $21,802
Western Illinois
$21K · $20,898
Sacramento State
$20K · $20,411
California State Polytechnic University,
$18K · $18,277
Missouri Western State University
$11K · $11,144
California State University, Los Angeles
$11K · $10,637
California State University, Monterey Bay
$10K · $9,854
Jackson State
$8K · $7,880
St. Cloud State University
$8K · $7,518
Montana State University Billings
$7K · $7,475
California State University San Marcos
$7K · $6,828
South Dakota School of Mines &
$6K · $5,974
University of West Florida
$6K · $5,762
Western Washington University
$5K · $5,346
North Carolina Central
$5K · $4,966
University of North Georgia
$4K · $3,642
Prairie View A&M
$4K · $3,528
Augusta University
$3K · $2,957
Coppin State University
$3K · $2,500
Mississippi Valley State University
$2K · $1,900
University of Maryland Eastern Shore
$1K · $1,245
Sonoma State University
$742 · $742
University of Arkansas, Pine Bluff
$171 · $171
University of the District of Columbia
$0 · $0
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.