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Who spends the most on women's basketball team travel

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.
9Schools ranked
FY2016Fiscal year
$2.65MCombined women's basketball team travel
831Reports parsed

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 women's basketball.

Rank / schoolReported women's basketball team travelChange
01

Texas

$860K · $860,333

no prior year
02

Georgia

$506K · $505,603

no prior year
03

App State

$251K · $250,548

no prior year
04

Texas State

$242K · $242,036

no prior year
05

Akron

$202K · $201,754

no prior year
06

Central Michigan

$156K · $156,258

no prior year
07

Georgia Southern

$147K · $146,959

no prior year
08

Georgia State

$146K · $146,467

no prior year
09

Southeast Missouri State University

$135K · $135,327

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.