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Who spends the most on men'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.
116Schools ranked
FY2021Fiscal year
$32.07MCombined men'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 men's basketball.

Rank / schoolReported men's basketball team travelChange
01

Kentucky

$1.59M · $1,591,019

no prior year
02

NC State

$1.09M · $1,094,808

no prior year
03

UConn

$1.09M · $1,091,322

no prior year
04

UCLA

$1.07M · $1,068,838

no prior year
05

North Carolina

$1.06M · $1,059,795

no prior year
06

Indiana

$909K · $909,197

no prior year
07

Maryland

$873K · $872,814

no prior year
08

Missouri

$817K · $816,921

−39% YoY
09

Ohio State

$804K · $804,439

no prior year
10

Texas

$781K · $780,847

no prior year
11

Oklahoma

$753K · $752,629

−19% YoY
12

Michigan

$751K · $751,278

no prior year
13

Nebraska

$729K · $729,058

no prior year
14

Rhode Island

$715K · $714,711

no prior year
15

Purdue

$702K · $702,190

no prior year
16

VCU

$691K · $691,002

no prior year
17

Mississippi State

$648K · $647,669

no prior year
18

Arizona

$645K · $644,582

no prior year
19

Georgia Tech

$641K · $640,893

no prior year
20

Texas A&M

$624K · $624,121

no prior year
21

Oklahoma State

$596K · $596,447

no prior year
22

South Carolina

$579K · $579,130

no prior year
23

New Mexico State

$534K · $533,627

+28% YoY
24

Utah State

$477K · $477,438

no prior year
25

UNLV

$453K · $453,030

no prior year
26

Oregon State

$451K · $451,025

−17% YoY
27

Clemson

$444K · $443,835

no prior year
28

George Mason University

$438K · $438,115

no prior year
29

Boise State

$418K · $417,572

−16% YoY
30

Nevada

$386K · $385,918

no prior year
31

The University of North Carolina at

$383K · $382,820

no prior year
32

Buffalo

$349K · $348,516

−9% YoY
33

Southern Illinois University at Carbondale

$347K · $347,081

no prior year
34

Georgia

$336K · $336,051

−58% YoY
35

San José State

$295K · $295,426

no prior year
36

Southern Miss

$290K · $289,830

−9% YoY
37

Charlotte

$286K · $285,544

no prior year
38

Montana

$257K · $256,615

no prior year
39

Stephen F. Austin State University

$255K · $254,570

no prior year
40

Fresno State

$241K · $241,171

no prior year
41

Middle Tennessee

$236K · $236,321

no prior year
42

University of Northern Iowa

$221K · $220,692

no prior year
43

Indiana State

$210K · $209,937

no prior year
44

East Carolina

$201K · $201,090

no prior year
45

Texas State

$201K · $200,560

−8% YoY
46

California State University, Bakersfield

$189K · $188,943

no prior year
47

University of Massachusetts, Amherst

$183K · $183,282

no prior year
48

Montana State

$173K · $173,133

no prior year
49

University of Missouri-Kansas City

$173K · $172,820

no prior year
50

University of Hawaii, Manoa

$166K · $165,996

no prior year
51

Morehead State

$165K · $165,395

no prior year
52

Eastern Washington

$165K · $164,778

no prior year
53

Kennesaw State

$157K · $157,269

−23% YoY
54

Oakland

$156K · $155,899

no prior year
55

University of Nebraska Omaha

$155K · $155,492

no prior year
56

Florida Atlantic

$155K · $154,697

−60% YoY
57

Eastern Kentucky

$154K · $154,018

no prior year
58

Towson

$143K · $143,074

no prior year
59

UC Santa Barbara

$143K · $142,521

no prior year
60

Florida International

$136K · $136,191

no prior year
61

Central Michigan

$134K · $133,686

−50% YoY
62

Austin Peay State University

$132K · $131,762

no prior year
63

South Dakota State

$132K · $131,717

no prior year
64

Weber State University

$131K · $130,882

no prior year
65

University of North Carolina Wilmington

$129K · $129,115

no prior year
66

Idaho

$128K · $127,699

no prior year
67

Stony Brook

$126K · $126,064

no prior year
68

California State University, Northridge

$126K · $125,800

no prior year
69

Idaho State

$119K · $119,378

−44% YoY
70

North Dakota State

$118K · $118,484

no prior year
71

Portland State University

$114K · $114,337

no prior year
72

University of Wisconsin-Green Bay

$114K · $114,149

no prior year
73

Ball State

$113K · $112,724

no prior year
74

Illinois State University

$113K · $112,678

no prior year
75

North Alabama

$109K · $109,172

no prior year
76

Georgia State

$107K · $107,097

−61% YoY
77

Florida Gulf Coast University

$104K · $103,851

−68% YoY
78

Western Carolina

$94K · $94,132

no prior year
79

South Dakota

$92K · $92,059

no prior year
80

University of California, Davis

$90K · $89,955

no prior year
81

North Carolina A&T State University

$89K · $89,028

−70% YoY
82

Sam Houston

$87K · $87,035

no prior year
83

East Tennessee State

$86K · $85,830

no prior year
84

University of Massachusetts Lowell

$83K · $83,279

no prior year
85

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

$78K · $78,154

no prior year
86

Maine

$74K · $73,792

no prior year
87

UAlbany

$72K · $72,405

no prior year
88

California State University, Fullerton

$70K · $70,100

no prior year
89

Western Michigan

$70K · $69,726

−74% YoY
90

South Carolina State University

$65K · $64,982

no prior year
91

Michigan Tech

$55K · $55,254

no prior year
92

Nebraska-Kearney

$51K · $51,262

no prior year
93

North Carolina Central

$49K · $49,098

no prior year
94

Black Hills State University

$47K · $47,167

no prior year
95

University of Central Missouri

$43K · $43,485

no prior year
96

Emporia State University

$41K · $41,383

no prior year
97

UNC Asheville

$40K · $39,625

no prior year
98

Eastern Michigan

$37K · $36,538

no prior year
99

University of West Florida

$33K · $33,167

no prior year
100

NJIT

$33K · $32,531

no prior year
101

West Liberty University

$32K · $32,139

no prior year
102

Southeastern Oklahoma State

$31K · $30,653

no prior year
103

University of Minnesota, Crookston

$29K · $29,483

no prior year
104

Fort Lewis College

$27K · $27,198

no prior year
105

Angelo State

$25K · $24,965

no prior year
106

University of North Georgia

$23K · $23,221

no prior year
107

University of Colorado, Colorado Springs

$23K · $22,973

no prior year
108

University of Missouri–St. Louis

$19K · $19,498

no prior year
109

Cameron University

$16K · $16,105

no prior year
110

Midwestern State University

$10K · $9,670

no prior year
111

Georgia College

$8K · $8,412

no prior year
112

Central Washington

$4K · $4,376

no prior year
113

Eastern New Mexico University

$4K · $3,853

no prior year
114

Albany State University (Georgia)

$4K · $3,619

no prior year
115

New Mexico

$0 · $0

no prior year
116

Montana State University Billings

$0 · $0

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.