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.
Missouri
$1.35M · $1,347,689
Oklahoma
$926K · $926,012
Georgia
$808K · $807,930
Marshall
$591K · $590,996
Oregon State
$545K · $544,986
Boise State
$497K · $497,178
New Mexico State
$417K · $417,317
Northern Illinois
$407K · $407,116
Florida Atlantic
$388K · $388,473
Buffalo
$382K · $381,643
Florida Gulf Coast University
$322K · $322,179
Southern Miss
$320K · $319,847
Murray State University
$317K · $317,027
App State
$297K · $297,032
North Carolina A&T State University
$295K · $295,123
California Polytechnic State University
$294K · $294,091
Georgia Southern
$287K · $287,177
Georgia State
$277K · $276,740
Central Michigan
$268K · $268,206
Western Michigan
$266K · $265,788
Texas State
$218K · $218,046
Idaho State
$214K · $213,626
Kennesaw State
$204K · $203,746
Eastern Illinois
$144K · $144,144
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.