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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.
22Schools ranked
FY2020Fiscal year
$5.98MCombined 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

$762K · $762,254

no prior year
02

Georgia

$741K · $740,581

+34% YoY
03

Oregon State

$420K · $419,528

no prior year
04

Marshall

$338K · $338,412

no prior year
05

Boise State

$334K · $333,662

no prior year
06

Florida Atlantic

$279K · $278,752

no prior year
07

Western Michigan

$264K · $264,446

no prior year
08

Kennesaw State

$260K · $259,765

no prior year
09

App State

$252K · $251,841

no prior year
10

Georgia Southern

$239K · $239,444

no prior year
11

Northern Illinois

$236K · $235,508

+15% YoY
12

Central Michigan

$233K · $233,238

−7% YoY
13

Texas State

$229K · $229,433

no prior year
14

Florida Gulf Coast University

$219K · $219,107

no prior year
15

New Mexico State

$196K · $196,399

no prior year
16

North Carolina A&T State University

$193K · $193,142

no prior year
17

Georgia State

$177K · $177,334

+1% YoY
18

Southern Miss

$175K · $174,997

no prior year
19

Idaho State

$152K · $152,124

no prior year
20

California Polytechnic State University

$106K · $105,942

no prior year
21

Murray State University

$103K · $103,202

no prior year
22

Eastern Illinois

$74K · $73,795

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.