Who spends the most on men's basketball team travel
Air and ground transportation, lodging, and meals for competition — the line charter flights are paid from. These figures are the amounts each school allocated to men's basketball.
Texas
$1.25M · $1,252,492
Georgia
$580K · $579,894
Marshall
$454K · $454,262
Akron
$439K · $438,585
Georgia Southern
$315K · $314,689
App State
$267K · $267,302
Central Michigan
$264K · $263,658
Texas State
$239K · $238,946
Georgia State
$229K · $229,454
UMBC
$185K · $184,763
Southeast Missouri State University
$133K · $133,333
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.