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
$1.40M · $1,403,660
Missouri
$914K · $914,447
Georgia
$781K · $780,711
Oklahoma
$760K · $760,166
Boise State
$428K · $428,222
Coastal Carolina
$370K · $370,105
Georgia Southern
$332K · $331,915
Buffalo
$331K · $330,970
App State
$314K · $313,966
Western Michigan
$299K · $298,580
UT Arlington
$277K · $277,031
Central Michigan
$252K · $251,663
Arkansas State
$249K · $248,926
Northern Kentucky
$232K · $231,876
Georgia State
$215K · $215,354
Texas State
$208K · $207,642
UMBC
$205K · $205,146
Murray State
$182K · $181,827
Radford
$131K · $130,828
Montana State University Billings
$85K · $84,629
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.