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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.
117Schools ranked
FY2025Fiscal year
$13.42MCombined 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

UConn

$638K · $637,590

−28% YoY
02

Oklahoma

$544K · $543,912

no prior year
03

Mississippi State

$426K · $426,476

+33% YoY
04

Texas

$389K · $389,495

+5% YoY
05

Arizona

$364K · $363,634

+3% YoY
06

Michigan

$347K · $346,583

+19% YoY
07

Texas Tech

$317K · $316,790

−16% YoY
08

Louisville

$316K · $315,836

−5% YoY
09

Clemson

$313K · $313,384

+19% YoY
10

Auburn

$311K · $310,896

+60% YoY
11

Rutgers

$280K · $279,623

−53% YoY
12

Georgia Tech

$267K · $266,746

+43% YoY
13

Michigan State

$261K · $260,608

flat
14

Georgia

$259K · $259,110

−34% YoY
15

Florida State

$258K · $257,807

no prior year
16

Alabama

$249K · $249,317

+135% YoY
17

Florida

$247K · $247,276

−5% YoY
18

UCLA

$245K · $245,394

+8% YoY
19

Nebraska

$240K · $239,621

+27% YoY
20

Kansas

$235K · $234,916

no prior year
21

UNLV

$230K · $229,919

+25% YoY
22

Texas A&M

$227K · $227,420

−24% YoY
23

South Florida

$217K · $216,934

−2% YoY
24

Virginia

$195K · $195,375

no prior year
25

Oregon State

$194K · $193,765

+4% YoY
26

Indiana

$187K · $186,691

+1% YoY
27

Iowa

$185K · $185,145

+4% YoY
28

Purdue

$177K · $177,027

no prior year
29

NC State

$177K · $176,528

+3% YoY
30

Memphis

$168K · $168,432

+33% YoY
31

Oklahoma State

$164K · $163,950

−25% YoY
32

Arizona State

$156K · $155,699

+31% YoY
33

George Mason University

$139K · $138,805

+38% YoY
34

VCU

$133K · $133,247

+33% YoY
35

Missouri State

$133K · $132,564

+37% YoY
36

East Carolina

$123K · $123,040

no prior year
37

UC Santa Barbara

$118K · $118,127

no prior year
38

Arkansas State

$118K · $117,577

+131% YoY
39

University of Hawaii, Manoa

$115K · $114,904

+4% YoY
40

California Polytechnic State University

$114K · $114,468

+46% YoY
41

Charlotte

$111K · $110,868

−19% YoY
42

Florida Atlantic

$110K · $110,467

+4% YoY
43

San Diego State

$108K · $108,327

−4% YoY
44

University of Nebraska at Omaha

$104K · $104,170

no prior year
45

Tarleton State University

$102K · $102,310

+53% YoY
46

Nevada

$96K · $96,209

+4% YoY
47

South Alabama

$96K · $95,908

no prior year
48

Florida Gulf Coast University

$92K · $91,703

+85% YoY
49

Stephen F. Austin State University

$89K · $88,935

+4% YoY
50

Ball State

$87K · $87,298

+30% YoY
51

Army

$81K · $81,443

+5% YoY
52

University of California, Davis

$81K · $80,941

no prior year
53

Fresno State

$78K · $78,344

−31% YoY
54

University of Massachusetts, Amherst

$77K · $77,368

−10% YoY
55

Georgia State

$77K · $76,904

+26% YoY
56

William & Mary

$75K · $75,024

−17% YoY
57

Eastern Michigan

$68K · $68,342

−5% YoY
58

Indiana State

$68K · $68,165

+83% YoY
59

Maine

$68K · $68,013

+33% YoY
60

Northern Kentucky University

$64K · $64,431

+146% YoY
61

Texas State

$64K · $64,183

flat
62

North Dakota State

$64K · $63,606

no prior year
63

Western Carolina

$63K · $63,138

+17% YoY
64

California State University, Northridge

$62K · $62,307

+194% YoY
65

Austin Peay State University

$62K · $61,973

+8% YoY
66

Murray State University

$61K · $61,031

−21% YoY
67

Northern Illinois

$61K · $60,853

no prior year
68

Stony Brook

$61K · $60,712

+73% YoY
69

Eastern Illinois

$60K · $60,053

+42% YoY
70

Middle Tennessee

$60K · $60,034

no prior year
71

Georgia Southern

$60K · $59,505

−6% YoY
72

Towson

$59K · $59,269

+86% YoY
73

Longwood

$58K · $58,343

+51% YoY
74

Illinois State University

$55K · $55,013

no prior year
75

UAlbany

$54K · $54,179

−2% YoY
76

South Dakota State

$51K · $51,080

+69% YoY
77

Western Michigan

$50K · $50,465

−9% YoY
78

Binghamton

$50K · $50,408

+126% YoY
79

Long Beach State

$49K · $48,726

−10% YoY
80

Southern Illinois University at Carbondale

$49K · $48,512

−3% YoY
81

Florida International

$48K · $47,932

−4% YoY
82

Oakland

$48K · $47,701

+2% YoY
83

Norfolk State

$47K · $47,009

+272% YoY
84

UC Riverside

$43K · $42,816

+1218% YoY
85

Kennesaw State

$41K · $40,758

+112% YoY
86

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

$36K · $35,993

+13% YoY
87

Lamar

$35K · $34,735

+38% YoY
88

North Alabama

$33K · $33,324

+5% YoY
89

Winthrop

$32K · $32,041

−4% YoY
90

Radford

$32K · $31,939

no prior year
91

Sacramento State

$31K · $30,935

no prior year
92

University of South Carolina Upstate

$31K · $30,736

no prior year
93

Sam Houston

$30K · $30,428

−4% YoY
94

Central Michigan

$27K · $26,874

−66% YoY
95

Eastern Kentucky

$25K · $24,947

−11% YoY
96

Missouri Western State University

$20K · $20,484

+56% YoY
97

Western Illinois

$20K · $20,205

+23% YoY
98

California State Polytechnic University,

$20K · $19,642

−4% YoY
99

California State University, Fullerton

$18K · $17,513

−17% YoY
100

San José State

$17K · $16,862

−77% YoY
101

Morehead State

$15K · $15,463

−59% YoY
102

California State University, East Bay

$15K · $15,428

−26% YoY
103

St. Cloud State University

$13K · $13,116

+32% YoY
104

University of West Florida

$12K · $12,292

+6% YoY
105

Jackson State

$9K · $8,913

+71% YoY
106

University of Maryland Eastern Shore

$9K · $8,526

+10% YoY
107

Morgan State

$8K · $8,099

−67% YoY
108

California State University San Marcos

$8K · $7,535

+139% YoY
109

California State University, Monterey Bay

$7K · $6,681

−18% YoY
110

Montana State University Billings

$6K · $6,277

−36% YoY
111

Sonoma State University

$6K · $5,883

−48% YoY
112

California State University, Los Angeles

$5K · $5,217

−10% YoY
113

Coppin State University

$5K · $4,500

+64% YoY
114

Augusta University

$4K · $3,896

−23% YoY
115

Prairie View A&M

$4K · $3,538

no prior year
116

University of North Georgia

$1K · $1,304

+135% YoY
117

University of Arkansas, Pine Bluff

$343 · $343

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.