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
$1.64M · $1,641,197
Missouri
$1.10M · $1,097,738
Oklahoma
$896K · $895,857
Georgia
$750K · $750,214
Buffalo
$504K · $503,611
Georgia Southern
$362K · $361,738
Boise State
$340K · $340,411
Arkansas State
$331K · $330,809
Central Michigan
$318K · $318,178
UMBC
$297K · $297,162
App State
$286K · $286,478
Georgia State
$261K · $260,849
UT Arlington
$255K · $254,833
Western Michigan
$253K · $252,847
Texas State
$251K · $251,400
Ball State
$202K · $202,119
University of Nebraska Omaha
$200K · $199,573
Montana State University Billings
$89K · $88,824
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.