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.
Virginia
$1.66M · $1,660,642
Texas
$1.52M · $1,515,961
Georgia
$680K · $680,055
Buffalo
$511K · $510,881
Georgia State
$414K · $413,576
UT Arlington
$315K · $315,033
Central Michigan
$279K · $278,641
Northern Illinois
$272K · $272,191
Montana State University Billings
$108K · $108,184
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.