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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.
16Schools ranked
FY2018Fiscal year
$5.71MCombined 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

Oklahoma

$917K · $916,693

+13% YoY
02

Missouri

$890K · $890,336

+33% YoY
03

Texas

$818K · $818,432

−18% YoY
04

Georgia

$584K · $583,578

+4% YoY
05

Buffalo

$331K · $331,411

+62% YoY
06

Central Michigan

$307K · $307,453

+64% YoY
07

UT Arlington

$256K · $255,555

+16% YoY
08

Texas State

$249K · $249,220

+39% YoY
09

App State

$223K · $222,666

−8% YoY
10

UMBC

$197K · $197,033

+6% YoY
11

Arkansas State

$196K · $195,897

−22% YoY
12

Montana State University Billings

$178K · $177,577

+138% YoY
13

Western Michigan

$156K · $156,400

+18% YoY
14

Georgia State

$151K · $150,624

flat
15

Georgia Southern

$142K · $142,387

−13% YoY
16

University of Nebraska Omaha

$114K · $114,236

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.