March 17, 2026
By Matt Brown, Extra Points: To commemorate March Madness, we’ll shift to basketball programs for our next chapter of our FY25 sport-specific budget breakdowns. Earlier this month, we published the operating budgets for Women’s Soccer and Baseball. We’ll get to women’s basketball numbers later this week, but today, I’m happy to share the data we have for men’s basketball.
First, some notes on the methodology
Every D-1 and D-II school files an itemized athletic department budget report with the NCAA, called the MFRS report. This report breaks down how athletic departments generate and spend money, itemized by sport. It’s not perfect by any means, but it’s the closest thing we have in college sports to a unified data set.
We obtain these documents by filling hundreds of Open Records Requests. Because of those requests, and because of our data analysis, we’re able to compare spending across more than 200 schools.
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