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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.
19Schools ranked
FY2017Fiscal year
$5.59MCombined 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

$1.00M · $1,003,536

+17% YoY
02

Oklahoma

$814K · $813,735

no prior year
03

Missouri

$667K · $666,926

no prior year
04

Georgia

$561K · $561,368

+11% YoY
05

Arkansas State

$251K · $250,976

no prior year
06

App State

$242K · $241,891

−3% YoY
07

UT Arlington

$221K · $220,543

no prior year
08

Buffalo

$204K · $204,445

no prior year
09

Coastal Carolina

$195K · $194,547

no prior year
10

Central Michigan

$188K · $187,961

+20% YoY
11

UMBC

$186K · $185,900

no prior year
12

Texas State

$180K · $179,897

−26% YoY
13

Georgia Southern

$163K · $163,186

+11% YoY
14

Georgia State

$150K · $149,994

+2% YoY
15

Northern Kentucky

$149K · $149,139

no prior year
16

Western Michigan

$132K · $132,144

no prior year
17

Radford

$106K · $106,338

no prior year
18

Murray State

$101K · $100,912

no prior year
19

Montana State University Billings

$74K · $74,456

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.