Mark Adams made an interesting Facebook post.
Budgets as per US Dept of Post Secondary Education for All Men's Basketball 2015 (most recent posted year)
1. Abilene Christian- $1,064,750
2. Akron $2,515,053
3. Alabama $7,164,296
4. Alabama at Birmingham UAB $3,952,661
5. Alabama A & M University $875,442
6. Alabama State University $933,140
7. Albany $1,575,462
8. Alcorn State University $652,804
9. American University $1,848,680
10. Appalachian State University $1,462,971
11. Arizona $8,982,702
12. Arizona State University-Tempe $10,057,921
13. Arkansas $8,425,122
14. Arkansas at Little Rock $2,082,286
15. Arkansas at Pine Bluff $565,674
16. Arkansas State University $1,295,222
17. ARMY $675,070
18. Auburn University $8,818,072
19. Austin Peay State University $1,125,715
20. Ball State University $1,831,427
21. Baylor University $8,194,470
22. Belmont University $2,439,284
23. Bethune-Cookman University $1,061,655
24. Binghamton $1,613,641
25. Boise State University $2,382,311
26. Boston College $5,683,020
27. Boston University $2,309,050
28. Bowling Green State University $2,155,925
29. Bradley University $3,762,890
30. Brigham Young University $6,344,666
31. Brown University $872,621
32. Bryant University $1,777,394
33. Bucknell University $2,120,705
34. Buffalo $2,100,440
35. Butler University $4,518,512
36. California-Berkeley $6,455,744
37. California-Davis $1,621,580
38. California-Irvine $2,570,142
39. California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo $1,794,347
40. California-Riverside $1,586,533
41. California-Santa Barbara $1,955,898
42. California State University-Bakersfield $1,510,964
43. California State University-Fresno $2,479,857
44. California State University-Fullerton $1,416,737
45. California State University-Long Beach $2,457,281
46. California State University-Northridge $1,828,599
47. California State University-Sacramento $1,425,297
48. Campbell University $1,592,151
49. Canisius College $2,050,411
50. Central Arkansas $1,118,043
51. Central Connecticut State University $1,274,296
52. Central Florida $2,819,579
53. Central Michigan University $1,746,177
54. Charleston Southern University $1,082,591
55. Chicago State University $674,895
56. Citadel Military College $1,571,019
57. Chattanooga $1,741,852
58. Cincinnati $7,594,044
59. Clemson University $5,397,238
60. Cleveland State University $2,284,549
61. Coastal Carolina University $1,759,463
62. Colgate University $1,733,114
63. College of Charleston $2,540,644
64. Colorado $5,641,560
65. Colorado State University $4,478,288
66. Columbia University $1,345,170
67. Connecticut $8,569,846
68. Coppin State University $864,108
69. Cornell University $963,947
70. Creighton University $6,533,960
71. Dallas Baptist University $702,331
72. Dartmouth College $1,232,349
73. Davidson College $2,623,761
74. Dayton $4,757,973
75. Delaware $2,212,846
76. Delaware State University $1,270,990
77. Denver $2,608,652
78. DePaul University $9,175,262
79. Detroit Mercy $2,639,524
80. Drake University $2,362,144
81. Drexel University $2,429,922
82. Duke University $19,860,851
83. Duquesne University $3,518,812
84. East Carolina University $3,073,503
85. East Tennessee State University $1,649,873
86. Eastern Illinois University $1,011,349
87. Eastern Kentucky University $1,934,101
88. Eastern Michigan University $1,846,050
89. Eastern Washington University $1,336,219
90. Elon University $1,739,174
91. Evansville $2,534,164
92. Fairfield University $2,573,166
93. Fairleigh Dickinson University $1,459,128
94. FAMU $1,019,673
95. Florida $10,103,924
96. Florida Atlantic University $2,026,308
97. Florida Gulf Coast University $1,462,960
98. Florida International University $1,641,649
99. Florida State University $6,819,047
100. Fordham University $5,226,030
101. Furman University $1,867,698
102. Gardner-Webb University $1,164,695
103. George Mason University $4,081,042
104. George Washington University $3,130,281
105. Georgetown University $10,357,033
106. Georgia $5,933,136
107. Georgia Tech $5,990,331
108. Georgia Southern University $1,305,397
109. Georgia State University $2,128,878
110. Gonzaga University $7,362,669
111. Grambling State University $677,818
112. Grand Canyon University $3,858,156
113. Hampton University $1,127,869
114. Hartford $1,944,036
115. Harvard University $1,324,199
116. Hawaii $2,889,444
117. High Point University $1,659,506
118. Hofstra University $2,567,991
119. Holy Cross $2,586,520
120. Houston $3,905,404
121. Houston Baptist University $1,237,582
122. Howard University $1,264,149
123. Idaho $1,590,244
124. Idaho State University $1,192,991
125. Illinois $8,414,091
126. Illinois at Chicago $2,073,370
127. Illinois State University $2,321,340
128. Indiana State University $1,886,004
129. Indiana University $11,352,554
130. IUPU-Fort Wayne $1,021,322
131. IUPUI $1,594,571
132. Incarnate Word $1,114,883
133. Iona College $2,162,934
134. Iowa $6,868,122
135. Iowa State University $6,554,260
136. Jackson State University $642,100
137. Jacksonville State $1,036,956
138. James Madison University $2,957,421
139. Kansas $11,273,001
140. Kansas State University $6,505,118
141. Kennesaw State University $1,424,687
142. Kent State University $1,886,686
143. Kentucky $20,009,991
144. La Salle University $3,246,080
145. Lafayette College $1,875,510
146. Lamar University $1,439,015
147. Lehigh University $1,541,059
148. Liberty University $2,761,599
149. Lipscomb University $1,976,642
150. LIU Brooklyn $1,816,899
151. Longwood University $1,511,021
152. LSU $6,062,843
153. Louisiana at Lafayette $2,030,194
154. Louisiana at Monroe $995,115
155. Louisiana Tech $2,639,001
156. Louisville $16,782,522
157. Loyola Marymount University $3,406,666
158. Loyola University Chicago $2,807,402
159. Loyola University Maryland $2,032,940
160. Manhattan College $1,995,054
161. Maine $1,307,177
162. Marist College $1,818,576
163. Marquette University $9,062,732
164. Marshall University $2,385,914
165. Maryland $7,308,359
166. Maryland-Baltimore County $1,246,647
167. Maryland Eastern Shore $1,115,906
168. Massachusetts UMASS $3,822,521
169. Massachusetts-Lowell $1,419,933
170. McNeese State University $709,794
171. Memphis $8,370,412
172. Mercer University $1,941,577
173. Miami, FL $6,573,405
174. Miami University, OH $2,235,364
175. Michigan $7,475,989
176. Michigan State University $10,696,689
177. Middle Tennessee State University $2,500,195
178. Minnesota $9,049,050
179. Mississippi $7,906,206
180. Mississippi State University $5,167,067
181. Mississippi Valley State University $491,782
182. Missouri $5,746,352
183. Missouri-Kansas City UMKC $1,929,920
184. Missouri State University $2,185,903
185. Monmouth University $1,837,106
186. Montana $1,720,551
187. Montana State University $1,647,178
188. Morehead State University $1,471,521
189. Morgan State University $1,347,353
190. Mount St Mary's University $1,670,971
191. Murray State University $2,159,034
192. Nebraska $6,521,834
193. Nebraska at Omaha $1,061,991
194. Nevada-Las Vegas UNLV $3,817,485
195. Nevada-Reno $2,161,877
196. New Hampshire $1,440,618
197. New Jersey Institute of Technology NJIT $1,619,774
198. New Mexico $3,538,650
199. New Orleans $826,656
200. New Mexico State University $2,937,179
201. Niagara University $1,402,822
202. Nicholls State University $683,077
203. Norfolk State University $1,244,336
204. North Carolina $7,470,178
205. North Carolina A & T State University $1,329,342
206. North Carolina at Asheville UNCA $935,727
207. North Carolina Central University $1,454,222
208. North Carolina at Charlotte $2,469,283
209. North Carolina at Greensboro UNCG $1,374,954
210. North Carolina at Wilmington UNCW $2,419,267
211. North Carolina State University $7,679,348
212. North Dakota $1,143,095
213. North Dakota State University $1,351,874
214. Northeastern University $2,681,380
215. Northern Arizona University $1,668,695
216. Northern Colorado $1,343,593
217. Northern Illinois University $1,917,270
218. Northern Iowa $3,560,469
219. Northern Kentucky University $1,581,284
220. North Florida $1,343,543
221. North Texas $2,108,980
222. Northwestern State University $1,076,458
223. Northwestern University $6,267,376
224. Notre Dame $6,688,960
225. Oakland University $1,767,625
226. Ohio State University $8,987,900
227. Ohio University $2,781,177
228. Oklahoma $9,191,997
229. Oklahoma State University $7,898,911
230. Old Dominion University $3,345,670
231. Oral Roberts University $2,498,783
232. Oregon $6,798,884
233. Oregon State University $4,672,485
234. Pacific $2,246,667
235. Pennsylvania $1,327,446
236. Penn State University $5,342,457
237. Pepperdine University $2,599,492
238. Pittsburgh $8,621,103
239. Portland $2,737,555
240. Portland State University $1,172,157
241. Prairie View A & M University $822,352
242. Presbyterian College $1,269,185
243. Princeton University $1,260,936
244. Providence College $7,308,255
245. Purdue University $6,910,907
246. Quinnipiac University $2,415,222
247. Radford University $1,308,719
248. Rhode Island $3,652,260
249. Richmond $4,928,859
250. Rice University $3,251,856
251. Rider University $1,750,649
252. Robert Morris University $1,920,127
253. Rutgers University $5,083,432
254. Sacred Heart University $1,394,831
255. San Diego $2,768,175
256. San Francisco $3,315,757
257. St Bonaventure University $2,690,887
258. St Francis College NY $1,230,090
259. St Francis University PA $1,551,005
260. St John's University $10,511,821
261. St Joseph's $3,871,346
262. St Louis University $4,185,914
263. St Mary's $2,672,354
264. St Peter's University $1,276,071
265. Sam Houston State University $1,020,883
266. Samford University $1,901,335
267. San Diego State University $5,196,326
268. San Jose State University $2,008,072
269. Santa Clara University $2,370,761
270. Savannah State University $770,041
271. Seattle University $3,180,170
272. Seton Hall University $6,752,792
273. Siena College $2,516,769
274. South Alabama $1,732,880
275. South Carolina $6,852,555
276. South Carolina State University $831,561
277. South Carolina-Upstate $1,041,774
278. South Dakota $1,172,458
279. South Dakota State University $1,345,852
280. South Florida $4,745,562
281. Southeast Missouri State University $1,294,828
282. Southeastern Louisiana University $1,101,812
283. Southern California USC $4,771,128
284. Southern Illinois University-Carbondale $1,857,509
285. Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville $968,955
286. Southern Methodist University $6,416,266
287. Southern Mississippi $1,777,758
288. Southern University $806,314
289. Southern Utah University $940,904
290. Stanford University $5,138,665
291. Stephen F Austin State University $1,949,288
292. Stetson University $1,475,881
293. Stony Brook University $2,048,349
294. Syracuse University $13,344,977
295. Temple University $4,934,506
296. Tennessee $6,068,357
297. Tennessee-Martin $1,442,222
298. Tennessee State University $1,327,269
299. Tennessee Tech University $1,322,215
300. Texas $11,301,014
301. Texas A&M $6,876,558
302. Texas A & M University-Corpus Christi $1,437,925
303. Texas at Arlington $1,420,272
304. Texas Christian University $7,564,141
305. Texas-Pan American $1,198,323
306. Texas Southern University $1,430,742
307. Texas State University $1,751,884
308. Texas Tech University $5,844,904
309. Toledo $2,165,788
310. Towson University $1,690,686
311. Troy University $2,290,724
312. Tulane University $2,762,314
313. Tulsa $6,138,395
314. Utah $6,103,014
315. Utah State University $3,375,417
316. UCLA $8,256,449
317. UTEP $3,623,777
318. UTSA $1,399,636
319. Vermont $1,641,253
320. Virginia $7,621,600
321. Utah Valley $1,190,060
322. Valparaiso University VALPO $2,492,114
323. Vanderbilt $9,919,002
324. Villanova $8,171,404
325. VCU $5,584,380
326. Virginia Military Institute VMI $1,221,036
327. Virginia Tech $9,238,871
328. Wagner College $1,549,575
329. Wake Forest University $7,374,832
330. Washington $6,343,516
331. Washington State University $4,852,535
332. Weber State University $1,537,906
333. West Virginia University $9,549,182
334. Western Carolina University $981,095
335. Western Illinois $1,249,143
336. Western Kentucky WKU $2,464,267
337. Western Michigan $2,253,609
338. Wichita State University $5,738,315
339. William and Mary $1,985,176
340. Winthrop University $1,480,302
341. Wisconsin-Green Bay $1,683,384
342. Wisconsin $7,473,012
343. Wisconsin-Milwaukee $2,157,251
344. Wofford $1,486,445
345. Wright State University $2,126,331
346. Wyoming $3,123,275
347. Xavier $5,518,383
348. Yale $972,489
349. Youngstown State University $1,274,381
I think that says plenty about the administrations commitment to Valpo basketball.
Really be curious to see a breakdown of this. Pardon me for not being impressed when the university is deep into a $250 million fundraising drive.
Just to put a little emphasis on all those numbers for schools we are familiar with:
Quote from: M on March 05, 2017, 09:06:35 PM
Mark Adams made an interesting Facebook post.
Budgets as per US Dept of Post Secondary Education for All Men's Basketball 2015 (most recent posted year)
1. Abilene Christian- $1,064,750
2. Akron $2,515,053
3. Alabama $7,164,296
4. Alabama at Birmingham UAB $3,952,661
5. Alabama A & M University $875,442
6. Alabama State University $933,140
7. Albany $1,575,462
8. Alcorn State University $652,804
9. American University $1,848,680
10. Appalachian State University $1,462,971
11. Arizona $8,982,702
12. Arizona State University-Tempe $10,057,921
13. Arkansas $8,425,122
14. Arkansas at Little Rock $2,082,286
15. Arkansas at Pine Bluff $565,674
16. Arkansas State University $1,295,222
17. ARMY $675,070
18. Auburn University $8,818,072
19. Austin Peay State University $1,125,715
20. Ball State University $1,831,427
21. Baylor University $8,194,470
22. Belmont University $2,439,284
23. Bethune-Cookman University $1,061,655
24. Binghamton $1,613,641
25. Boise State University $2,382,311
26. Boston College $5,683,020
27. Boston University $2,309,050
28. Bowling Green State University $2,155,925
29. Bradley University $3,762,890
30. Brigham Young University $6,344,666
31. Brown University $872,621
32. Bryant University $1,777,394
33. Bucknell University $2,120,705
34. Buffalo $2,100,440
35. Butler University $4,518,512
36. California-Berkeley $6,455,744
37. California-Davis $1,621,580
38. California-Irvine $2,570,142
39. California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo $1,794,347
40. California-Riverside $1,586,533
41. California-Santa Barbara $1,955,898
42. California State University-Bakersfield $1,510,964
43. California State University-Fresno $2,479,857
44. California State University-Fullerton $1,416,737
45. California State University-Long Beach $2,457,281
46. California State University-Northridge $1,828,599
47. California State University-Sacramento $1,425,297
48. Campbell University $1,592,151
49. Canisius College $2,050,411
50. Central Arkansas $1,118,043
51. Central Connecticut State University $1,274,296
52. Central Florida $2,819,579
53. Central Michigan University $1,746,177
54. Charleston Southern University $1,082,591
55. Chicago State University $674,895
56. Citadel Military College $1,571,019
57. Chattanooga $1,741,852
58. Cincinnati $7,594,044
59. Clemson University $5,397,238
60. Cleveland State University $2,284,549
61. Coastal Carolina University $1,759,463
62. Colgate University $1,733,114
63. College of Charleston $2,540,644
64. Colorado $5,641,560
65. Colorado State University $4,478,288
66. Columbia University $1,345,170
67. Connecticut $8,569,846
68. Coppin State University $864,108
69. Cornell University $963,947
70. Creighton University $6,533,960
71. Dallas Baptist University $702,331
72. Dartmouth College $1,232,349
73. Davidson College $2,623,761
74. Dayton $4,757,973
75. Delaware $2,212,846
76. Delaware State University $1,270,990
77. Denver $2,608,652
78. DePaul University $9,175,262
79. Detroit Mercy $2,639,524
80. Drake University $2,362,144
81. Drexel University $2,429,922
82. Duke University $19,860,851 :o
83. Duquesne University $3,518,812
84. East Carolina University $3,073,503
85. East Tennessee State University $1,649,873
86. Eastern Illinois University $1,011,349
87. Eastern Kentucky University $1,934,101
88. Eastern Michigan University $1,846,050
89. Eastern Washington University $1,336,219
90. Elon University $1,739,174
91. Evansville $2,534,164
92. Fairfield University $2,573,166
93. Fairleigh Dickinson University $1,459,128
94. FAMU $1,019,673
95. Florida $10,103,924
96. Florida Atlantic University $2,026,308
97. Florida Gulf Coast University $1,462,960
98. Florida International University $1,641,649
99. Florida State University $6,819,047
100. Fordham University $5,226,030
101. Furman University $1,867,698
102. Gardner-Webb University $1,164,695
103. George Mason University $4,081,042
104. George Washington University $3,130,281
105. Georgetown University $10,357,033
106. Georgia $5,933,136
107. Georgia Tech $5,990,331
108. Georgia Southern University $1,305,397
109. Georgia State University $2,128,878
110. Gonzaga University $7,362,669
111. Grambling State University $677,818
112. Grand Canyon University $3,858,156
113. Hampton University $1,127,869
114. Hartford $1,944,036
115. Harvard University $1,324,199
116. Hawaii $2,889,444
117. High Point University $1,659,506
118. Hofstra University $2,567,991
119. Holy Cross $2,586,520
120. Houston $3,905,404
121. Houston Baptist University $1,237,582
122. Howard University $1,264,149
123. Idaho $1,590,244
124. Idaho State University $1,192,991
125. Illinois $8,414,091
126. Illinois at Chicago $2,073,370
127. Illinois State University $2,321,340
128. Indiana State University $1,886,004
129. Indiana University $11,352,554
130. IUPU-Fort Wayne $1,021,322
131. IUPUI $1,594,571
132. Incarnate Word $1,114,883
133. Iona College $2,162,934
134. Iowa $6,868,122
135. Iowa State University $6,554,260
136. Jackson State University $642,100
137. Jacksonville State $1,036,956
138. James Madison University $2,957,421
139. Kansas $11,273,001
140. Kansas State University $6,505,118
141. Kennesaw State University $1,424,687
142. Kent State University $1,886,686
143. Kentucky $20,009,991
144. La Salle University $3,246,080
145. Lafayette College $1,875,510
146. Lamar University $1,439,015
147. Lehigh University $1,541,059
148. Liberty University $2,761,599
149. Lipscomb University $1,976,642
150. LIU Brooklyn $1,816,899
151. Longwood University $1,511,021
152. LSU $6,062,843
153. Louisiana at Lafayette $2,030,194
154. Louisiana at Monroe $995,115
155. Louisiana Tech $2,639,001
156. Louisville $16,782,522
157. Loyola Marymount University $3,406,666
158. Loyola University Chicago $2,807,402
159. Loyola University Maryland $2,032,940
160. Manhattan College $1,995,054
161. Maine $1,307,177
162. Marist College $1,818,576
163. Marquette University $9,062,732
164. Marshall University $2,385,914
165. Maryland $7,308,359
166. Maryland-Baltimore County $1,246,647
167. Maryland Eastern Shore $1,115,906
168. Massachusetts UMASS $3,822,521
169. Massachusetts-Lowell $1,419,933
170. McNeese State University $709,794
171. Memphis $8,370,412
172. Mercer University $1,941,577
173. Miami, FL $6,573,405
174. Miami University, OH $2,235,364
175. Michigan $7,475,989
176. Michigan State University $10,696,689
177. Middle Tennessee State University $2,500,195
178. Minnesota $9,049,050
179. Mississippi $7,906,206
180. Mississippi State University $5,167,067
181. Mississippi Valley State University $491,782
182. Missouri $5,746,352
183. Missouri-Kansas City UMKC $1,929,920
184. Missouri State University $2,185,903
185. Monmouth University $1,837,106
186. Montana $1,720,551
187. Montana State University $1,647,178
188. Morehead State University $1,471,521
189. Morgan State University $1,347,353
190. Mount St Mary's University $1,670,971
191. Murray State University $2,159,034
192. Nebraska $6,521,834
193. Nebraska at Omaha $1,061,991
194. Nevada-Las Vegas UNLV $3,817,485
195. Nevada-Reno $2,161,877
196. New Hampshire $1,440,618
197. New Jersey Institute of Technology NJIT $1,619,774
198. New Mexico $3,538,650
199. New Orleans $826,656
200. New Mexico State University $2,937,179
201. Niagara University $1,402,822
202. Nicholls State University $683,077
203. Norfolk State University $1,244,336
204. North Carolina $7,470,178
205. North Carolina A & T State University $1,329,342
206. North Carolina at Asheville UNCA $935,727
207. North Carolina Central University $1,454,222
208. North Carolina at Charlotte $2,469,283
209. North Carolina at Greensboro UNCG $1,374,954
210. North Carolina at Wilmington UNCW $2,419,267
211. North Carolina State University $7,679,348
212. North Dakota $1,143,095
213. North Dakota State University $1,351,874
214. Northeastern University $2,681,380
215. Northern Arizona University $1,668,695
216. Northern Colorado $1,343,593
217. Northern Illinois University $1,917,270
218. Northern Iowa $3,560,469
219. Northern Kentucky University $1,581,284
220. North Florida $1,343,543
221. North Texas $2,108,980
222. Northwestern State University $1,076,458
223. Northwestern University $6,267,376
224. Notre Dame $6,688,960
225. Oakland University $1,767,625
226. Ohio State University $8,987,900
227. Ohio University $2,781,177
228. Oklahoma $9,191,997
229. Oklahoma State University $7,898,911
230. Old Dominion University $3,345,670
231. Oral Roberts University $2,498,783
232. Oregon $6,798,884
233. Oregon State University $4,672,485
234. Pacific $2,246,667
235. Pennsylvania $1,327,446
236. Penn State University $5,342,457
237. Pepperdine University $2,599,492
238. Pittsburgh $8,621,103
239. Portland $2,737,555
240. Portland State University $1,172,157
241. Prairie View A & M University $822,352
242. Presbyterian College $1,269,185
243. Princeton University $1,260,936
244. Providence College $7,308,255
245. Purdue University $6,910,907
246. Quinnipiac University $2,415,222
247. Radford University $1,308,719
248. Rhode Island $3,652,260
249. Richmond $4,928,859
250. Rice University $3,251,856
251. Rider University $1,750,649
252. Robert Morris University $1,920,127
253. Rutgers University $5,083,432
254. Sacred Heart University $1,394,831
255. San Diego $2,768,175
256. San Francisco $3,315,757
257. St Bonaventure University $2,690,887
258. St Francis College NY $1,230,090
259. St Francis University PA $1,551,005
260. St John's University $10,511,821
261. St Joseph's $3,871,346
262. St Louis University $4,185,914
263. St Mary's $2,672,354
264. St Peter's University $1,276,071
265. Sam Houston State University $1,020,883
266. Samford University $1,901,335
267. San Diego State University $5,196,326
268. San Jose State University $2,008,072
269. Santa Clara University $2,370,761
270. Savannah State University $770,041
271. Seattle University $3,180,170
272. Seton Hall University $6,752,792
273. Siena College $2,516,769
274. South Alabama $1,732,880
275. South Carolina $6,852,555
276. South Carolina State University $831,561
277. South Carolina-Upstate $1,041,774
278. South Dakota $1,172,458
279. South Dakota State University $1,345,852
280. South Florida $4,745,562
281. Southeast Missouri State University $1,294,828
282. Southeastern Louisiana University $1,101,812
283. Southern California USC $4,771,128
284. Southern Illinois University-Carbondale $1,857,509
285. Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville $968,955
286. Southern Methodist University $6,416,266
287. Southern Mississippi $1,777,758
288. Southern University $806,314
289. Southern Utah University $940,904
290. Stanford University $5,138,665
291. Stephen F Austin State University $1,949,288
292. Stetson University $1,475,881
293. Stony Brook University $2,048,349
294. Syracuse University $13,344,977
295. Temple University $4,934,506
296. Tennessee $6,068,357
297. Tennessee-Martin $1,442,222
298. Tennessee State University $1,327,269
299. Tennessee Tech University $1,322,215
300. Texas $11,301,014
301. Texas A&M $6,876,558
302. Texas A & M University-Corpus Christi $1,437,925
303. Texas at Arlington $1,420,272
304. Texas Christian University $7,564,141
305. Texas-Pan American $1,198,323
306. Texas Southern University $1,430,742
307. Texas State University $1,751,884
308. Texas Tech University $5,844,904
309. Toledo $2,165,788
310. Towson University $1,690,686
311. Troy University $2,290,724
312. Tulane University $2,762,314
313. Tulsa $6,138,395
314. Utah $6,103,014
315. Utah State University $3,375,417
316. UCLA $8,256,449
317. UTEP $3,623,777
318. UTSA $1,399,636
319. Vermont $1,641,253
320. Virginia $7,621,600
321. Utah Valley $1,190,060
322. Valparaiso University VALPO $2,492,114
323. Vanderbilt $9,919,002
324. Villanova $8,171,404
325. VCU $5,584,380
326. Virginia Military Institute VMI $1,221,036
327. Virginia Tech $9,238,871
328. Wagner College $1,549,575
329. Wake Forest University $7,374,832
330. Washington $6,343,516
331. Washington State University $4,852,535
332. Weber State University $1,537,906
333. West Virginia University $9,549,182
334. Western Carolina University $981,095
335. Western Illinois $1,249,143
336. Western Kentucky WKU $2,464,267
337. Western Michigan $2,253,609
338. Wichita State University $5,738,315
339. William and Mary $1,985,176
340. Winthrop University $1,480,302
341. Wisconsin-Green Bay $1,683,384
342. Wisconsin $7,473,012
343. Wisconsin-Milwaukee $2,157,251
344. Wofford $1,486,445
345. Wright State University $2,126,331
346. Wyoming $3,123,275
347. Xavier $5,518,383
348. Yale $972,489
349. Youngstown State University $1,274,381
I believe that puts us at second, behind only Detroit in the HL?
DePaul is at a staggering $9M! Now that is program that requires an enema.
Detroit's bang for their buck is entertaining. What a terrible program. I just like how that guy comes on here to lecture us on winning NCAA tournament games.
Quote from: usc4valpo on March 06, 2017, 06:35:16 AM
DePaul is at a staggering $9M! Now that is program that requires an enema.
I should have also highlighted Davidson. Small -- enrollment smaller than Valpo at just under 2,000 -- and a $2,623,761 budget playing in the A-10.
Don't know if the logic holds, but privates tend to be higher budgeted because the cost of attending in many cases is so much more than some state schools. If you were to subtract the scholarships, I think you'd get an even better picture of institutional support.
I was curious what all goes into these numbers. Coaching salaries, student manager stipends, travel expenses, meal money, home buy games, cover ups/lawyers....
I would bet a lot of that may be factored into Homer and Bryce salaries.
Yeah because clearly none of it is being used to market the home games.
Good topic of discussion. Thank you for sharing the budgets and also for highlighting the notables. Much appreciated.
The Valpo Budget of $2,492,114 compared to Bryce's Vandy Budget of $9,919,002! Wow! Now wonder he fly's around in a private jet for recruiting trips.
This budget is from 2015, so Bryce's salary was still on the books so I'm wondering if the budget went down this year a bit.
QuoteI would bet a lot of that may be factored into Homer and Bryce salaries.
I can see Bryce's salary being a big chunk but Homer's salary???? He was Assistant AD or something? Really? I know he was apart of the Athletics Department but I didn't think he'd be making a significant salary post coaching.
QuoteYeah because clearly none of it is being used to market the home games.
You can't market your way into becoming a popular team in the region. Particular in Northwest Indiana where the Purdue, IU, and Notre Dame roots are deep. We need to win our way into fans fandom.
If I'm in the marketing department I would try and target young fans and young families coming to the games. Try and partner local youth basketball leagues to get teams down to the ARC and Valpo games and build fandom by exposure from a young age.
Also do everything you can to get on Local/Regional Sports Networks like CSN. Make Valpo an option on local Northwest Indiana residents TV's. That comes from getting into a new conf... like the MVC or A10. I know in Chicago we have MVC games on CSN Chicago all the time. TV contracts are start with the conference and level of play. There are natural region rivalries in the MVC with Indiana State & Evansville. (but that is out our control right now)
Most importantly the greatest marketing is WINNING. If we win consistently and win an NCAA tourney game or two, the product sells itself.
I would think that the budget numbers below do not include marketing costs (for any sport). I think that is a separate budget in the athletic department. And, if I'm correct, that is a whole different string on this forum.
Marketing budgets are usually factored into overall athletic department budgets and aren't broken out sport-by-sport. That said, I disagree that VU doesn't need to market more to the Region. They should be branded on billboards, etc. as "The Region's College Basketball Team" with an emphasis on the success of the program and reasonable ticket prices compared to IU/PU/ND and pro games. Expand that regional fanbase so that it isn't the Valpo community tasked with all the lifting of filling the building every night.
Sport spending typically includes travel budget, however, so you'd have to factor that in when comparing to a team from say, the WCC or MWC, that have to fly to most of their conference games. However, this does pretty clearly show that the top non-P5 basketball programs aren't shy about investing in their program, and that it's hard to find too many consistent mid-major programs getting by on the cheap.
I think everyone on this board agrees that more marketing is necessary along the lines you propose.
Adding for additional comparison some more MVC schools:
Wichita State University $5,738,315
Illinois State University $2,321,340
Bradley University $3,762,890
Drake University $2,362,144
Then there's....
Chicago State University $674,895
And shoot, while I am running numbers I might as well compare HL, MVC and A-10 and see where we'd fit.
HORIZON
Detroit Mercy $2,639,524
Valparaiso University VALPO $2,492,114
Cleveland State University $2,284,549
Wisconsin-Milwaukee $2,157,251
Wright State University $2,126,331
Illinois at Chicago $2,073,370
Oakland University $1,767,625
Wisconsin-Green Bay $1,683,384
Northern Kentucky University $1,581,284
Youngstown State University $1,274,381
MISSOURI VALLEY
Wichita State University $5,738,315
Bradley University $3,762,890
Northern Iowa $3,560,469
Loyola University Chicago $2,807,402
Evansville $2,534,164
{Valparaiso University VALPO $2,492,114}
Drake University $2,362,144
Illinois State University $2,321,340
Missouri State University $2,185,903
Indiana State University $1,886,004
Southern Illinois University-Carbondale $1,857,509
A-10
VCU $5,584,380
Fordham University $5,226,030
Richmond $4,928,859
Dayton $4,757,973
St Louis University $4,185,914
George Mason University $4,081,042
St Joseph's $3,871,346
Massachusetts UMASS $3,822,521
Rhode Island $3,652,260
Duquesne University $3,518,812
La Salle University $3,246,080
George Washington University $3,130,281
St Bonaventure University $2,690,887
Davidson $2,623,761
{Valparaiso University VALPO $2,492,114}
Interesting comparisons. Wonder if these figures include spending/costs for non-university facilities (Bradley's lease of the Peoria Civic Center, for example)?
Quote from: bigmosmithfan1 on March 06, 2017, 02:54:09 PM
Interesting comparisons. Wonder if these figures include spending/costs for non-university facilities (Bradley's lease of the Peoria Civic Center, for example)?
My guess would be yes, because that is a direct basketball expense to support the program (like coaches travel expenses when out recruiting or recruit travel expenses when visiting campus ).
What I'd like to see next to the budget figures (i.e. the cost of a program) is the income from gate receipts, TV contracts, sponsorships (Nike/UA, etc.). Wondering what the "net" is for mid-majors. Places like UNC or UK that fill their arenas all the time would, I would guess be in the (+) net category while most programs are (-).
Quote from: VULB#62 on March 06, 2017, 03:02:05 PM
Quote from: bigmosmithfan1 on March 06, 2017, 02:54:09 PM
Interesting comparisons. Wonder if these figures include spending/costs for non-university facilities (Bradley's lease of the Peoria Civic Center, for example)?
My guess would be yes, because that is a direct basketball expense to support the program (like coaches travel expenses when out recruiting or recruit travel expenses when visiting campus ).
What I'd like to see next to the budget figures (i.e. the cost of a program) is the income from gate receipts, TV contracts, sponsorships (Nike/UA, etc.). Wondering what the "net" is for mid-majors. Places like UNC or UK that fill their arenas all the time would, I would guess be in the (+) net category while most programs are (-).
Wasn't there a gift to the basketball program in the form of several million for "operations/recruiting" just last year? Wonder if the $2.5 million is inclusive of gifts. I'd assume so, after all expenses don't denote the source of payment.
This could mean it's really only $2 million or thereabouts that VU is funding. This puts us lower on the totum poll imo. Assuming the other HL schools don't have this type of gift (right or wrong) that means VU is spending less than what we'd expect...in a phrase, "cheaping out" to where we could find more if necessary. Does $500,000 help us remodel the weight room or improve the athletic trainers equipment etc etc.
Quote from: FieldGoodie05 on March 06, 2017, 04:56:55 PM
Quote from: VULB#62 on March 06, 2017, 03:02:05 PM
Quote from: bigmosmithfan1 on March 06, 2017, 02:54:09 PM
Interesting comparisons. Wonder if these figures include spending/costs for non-university facilities (Bradley's lease of the Peoria Civic Center, for example)?
My guess would be yes, because that is a direct basketball expense to support the program (like coaches travel expenses when out recruiting or recruit travel expenses when visiting campus ).
What I'd like to see next to the budget figures (i.e. the cost of a program) is the income from gate receipts, TV contracts, sponsorships (Nike/UA, etc.). Wondering what the "net" is for mid-majors. Places like UNC or UK that fill their arenas all the time would, I would guess be in the (+) net category while most programs are (-).
Wasn't there a gift to the basketball program in the form of several million for "operations/recruiting" just last year? Wonder if the $2.5 million is inclusive of gifts. I'd assume so, after all expenses don't denote the source of payment.
This could mean it's really only $2 million or thereabouts that VU is funding. This puts us lower on the totum poll imo. Assuming the other HL schools don't have this type of gift (right or wrong) that means VU is spending less than what we'd expect...in a phrase, "cheaping out" to where we could find more if necessary. Does $500,000 help us remodel the weight room or improve the athletic trainers equipment etc etc.
http://www.valpo.edu/news/2016/01/27/valparaiso-university-mens-basketball-program-receives-2m-commitment-to-endow-recruiting/ (http://www.valpo.edu/news/2016/01/27/valparaiso-university-mens-basketball-program-receives-2m-commitment-to-endow-recruiting/)
Wording sounds like future maybe not current..."when it's funded".
I'd argue that makes $2.5 million budget becomes a $2.75 (~) budget. If it remains the same, it'd be a shame.
A gift to an endowment means that the income/growth could be used, say 5% annually. That's a $100,000. The catch is, as is the case in much of the so far committed $150,000,000, is that it isn't in the bank just yet, and it could be a fair number of years out if it is donated from someones estate. I have no idea how the gift for basket ball recruiting was worded or established.
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Stony Brook no match for Kentucky's spending at 2016 NCAA Tournament
Updated March 11, 2017 4:32 PM
By Jim Baumbach
To kick off Stony Brook's arrival on the NCAA Tournament stage a year ago, the basketball team enjoyed a meal together at The Cheesecake Factory.
Hours after landing in Des Moines, Iowa, players, coaches and staffers toasted the Seawolves' first March Madness experience over burgers, chicken and spaghetti. The bill for the party of 37 totaled $1,497.96, including 31 cheesecake slices to go.
That same night, Stony Brook's opponent — the nationally ranked University of Kentucky Wildcats — dined across town at Splash Seafood Bar and Grill, a restaurant that bills itself as "Iowa's first and only oyster bar."
There, records show, 26 Kentucky players, coaches and staffers spared little expense — $126 on calamari, $180 on crabcakes and $450 on lobster tails. Entrees of steaks, salmon, chicken and sea bass cost $58. Each. In the end, Kentucky's dinner cost $3,173.94, or an average of $122.07 per person, while Stony Brook's bill averaged $40.40 per person.
Twelve miles separate the two Des Moines restaurants, but in the landscape of college sports, these two teams were worlds apart.
MARCH MADNESS
The NCAA men's basketball tournament, the premier event in all of collegiate sports, will be set into motion today with Selection Sunday, as teams from 68 schools learn where they are seeded and who stands in their path to the championship. Millions of Americans will fill out brackets to predict this year's Cinderella team.
What's made the tournament so popular — more specifically, what's led networks to pay nearly $800 million each year for the rights to televise games — is its aura of unpredictability.
Could a team like Stony Brook upset a perennial power such as Kentucky? Though it happens occasionally, it wasn't in the stars for Stony Brook, which fell, 85-57, in its NCAA Tournament debut. The Seawolves (18-13) missed their chance to return this year, losing to Albany in the second round of the America East Tournament.
Experts say Kentucky and Stony Brook do a good job of illustrating how the fiscal divide that exists in collegiate sports has never been wider.
HIGHLIGHTS
Wildcats' restaurant, hotel bills dwarf Seawolves'
To kick off Stony Brook's arrival on the NCAA Tournament stage a year ago, the basketball team enjoyed a meal together at The Cheesecake Factory.
Hours after landing in Des Moines, Iowa, players, coaches and staffers toasted the Seawolves' first March Madness experience over burgers, chicken and spaghetti. The bill for the party of 37 totaled $1,497.96, including 31 cheesecake slices to go.
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That same night, Stony Brook's opponent — the nationally ranked University of Kentucky Wildcats — dined across town at Splash Seafood Bar and Grill, a restaurant that bills itself as "Iowa's first and only oyster bar."
There, records show, 26 Kentucky players, coaches and staffers spared little expense — $126 on calamari, $180 on crabcakes and $450 on lobster tails. Entrees of steaks, salmon, chicken and sea bass cost $58. Each. In the end, Kentucky's dinner cost $3,173.94, or an average of $122.07 per person, while Stony Brook's bill averaged $40.40 per person.
Twelve miles separate the two Des Moines restaurants, but in the landscape of college sports, these two teams were worlds apart.
A receipt included among Kentucky's expenses at 2016 NCAA tournament in Des Moines, Iowa. Photo Credit: University of Kentucky
MARCH MADNESS
The NCAA men's basketball tournament, the premier event in all of collegiate sports, will be set into motion today with Selection Sunday, as teams from 68 schools learn where they are seeded and who stands in their path to the championship. Millions of Americans will fill out brackets to predict this year's Cinderella team.
What's made the tournament so popular — more specifically, what's led networks to pay nearly $800 million each year for the rights to televise games — is its aura of unpredictability.
Could a team like Stony Brook upset a perennial power such as Kentucky? Though it happens occasionally, it wasn't in the stars for Stony Brook, which fell, 85-57, in its NCAA Tournament debut. The Seawolves (18-13) missed their chance to return this year, losing to Albany in the second round of the America East Tournament.
Experts say Kentucky and Stony Brook do a good job of illustrating how the fiscal divide that exists in collegiate sports has never been wider.
Stony Brook
NCAA Tournament: Stony Brook-Kentucky photos
"Kentucky and Stony Brook are not competitors," said ESPN college basketball commentator Jay Bilas, formerly a commercial litigation attorney. "They're not really in the same universe when it comes to competition."
The major difference is revenue streams.
Through public records requests, Newsday obtained the most recent annual financial report submitted by Kentucky and Stony Brook to the NCAA, as they are required to do.
In 2015, Kentucky reported $116.5 million in athletic revenue, including $34.3 million from media rights and $31.7 million from ticket sales. Its basketball team generated $24.7 million. This is why Kentucky landed an established professional coach in John Calipari eight years ago and then, when the threat of him leaving to the NBA arised, Kentucky responded by giving him a seven-year, $54-million extension in 2015.
Meanwhile, in 2015 Stony Brook reported $29.1 million in athletic revenue. But that figure includes $10.4 million in "direct institutional support" — money provided by the university to subsidize athletics — and $8.3 million in student fees. Stony Brook's men's basketball team generated $1.7 million.
This is why Stony Brook hired a first-year head coach in Jeff Boals last year, signing him to a five-year, $1.875-million contract after his predecessor, Steve Pikiell, took the head coaching job at Rutgers.
Stony Brook athletic director Shawn Heilbron said he's trying to rely less on university money by increasing fundraising efforts and is not bothered by the financial divide that exists between them and a school such as Kentucky.
"There's a definite disparity, but I think that's in a lot of ways what we aspire to be," Heilbron said of Kentucky. "Not just so we can spend the money to eat at the high-end seafood restaurant, but really to provide our student-athletes with those resources so they can get to the tournament every year and have that experience and bring that spotlight to Stony Brook."
FINANCIAL FIREPOWER
In an effort to quantify the effects of the financial disparity that exists between schools such as Stony Brook and Kentucky, Newsday obtained, via public records requests, each school's expense reports from their NCAA Tournament trips last year.
They provide a window into how drastically different each school's financial situation is.
Kentucky's traveling party spent $135,107 in Des Moines compared with Stony Brook's total of $57,858, according to Newsday's tabulations. Neither school disputed Newsday's findings.
While Kentucky's traveling party spent an additional day in Des Moines because of its first-round victory, the disparity in the schools' spending illustrates just how much more financial freedom Kentucky had.
Kentucky's stay at the Renaissance Des Moines Savory Hotel cost $87,755. That's nearly four times what Stony Brook paid during its stay at Quality Inn & Suites, which cost $23,199.
The NCAA said it assigns hotels to schools based on how teams are seeded in the tournament. The top seed at each site, as Kentucky was, gets the best hotel and the lowest seed, in this case Stony Brook, gets the lowest-rated lodging.
But that's not the reason for the vast disparity in hotel bills. Instead, Kentucky had a litany of other charges, such as:
Multiple catered meals each day at a hotel conference room, including a chef-catered omelet station during breakfast ($600 for 40 people per meal), a dinner buffet ($3,640 for 40 people per meal) and other add-ons such as $735 worth of to-go boxes ($15 per box) from their eight meals. Four catered breakfasts cost $11,441 and four catered dinners cost $16,447.
Kentucky also hosted team meetings in a conference room, paying daily add-ons such as $120 for two flip charts with Post-it pads and markers, $100 for a presenter's screen and $40 for each extension cord and power strip.
Kentucky also paid $900 to have a treadmill in a hotel room.
In a statement, Kentucky athletic director Mitch Barnhart said its team "is among the highest profile programs in America, expected annually to contend for a national championship."
"We strive to provide our players and coaches the resources to match those expectations," Barnhart said, "while following NCAA guidelines for team travel and maintaining the financial responsibility that allows us to be one of the few departments in the country that balances its budget without the help of any state or university funds."
As for Stony Brook, "we made use of the facilities that were available to us at the Quality Inn," Heilbron said.
Heilbron said team meetings were held wherever space was available, meaning hotel rooms or the dining room when it wasn't being used. He said players worked out at the hotel gym.
For meals, Stony Brook had food delivered to the hotel from restaurants, totaling about $11,000. He called dining at The Cheesecake Factory "a thoughtful and prudent" choice for an athletic department that's not self sufficient.
Stony Brook also collected nearly $10,000 in reimbursements from coaches and staffers, who brought their families, and from guests, such as Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone, to pay for their seats on the flight and for their hotel rooms.
Heilbron said that is school policy.
There is no record of any reimbursements paid to Kentucky in the documents obtained by Newsday. DeWayne Peevy, deputy athletic director, said he did not think there were guests.
DIFFERENT WORLDS
Stony Brook players were not bothered when they learned the extent of Kentucky's perks. If anything, they were impressed.
"They've earned the right to have those benefits," said Lucas Woodhouse, a senior who was part of the NCAA Tournament team. "They're a storied program. They've been successful for so long. I just feel they deserve it."
Carson Puriefoy III, said as the airplane carrying the SBU team landed, he saw from his window Kentucky's team bus waiting on the runway. He was taken aback that the bus looked so official, with Kentucky's name and logo on it.
"I don't want to say it was intimidating, but it was pretty cool," said Puriefoy, who is rehabbing from an ACL injury suffered while playing professionally in Latvia this season. "Like that's Kentucky right there."
Woodhouse got a closer look at Kentucky's bus at the arena before the game. He said he saw players reclining on seats, a luxury not present on Stony Brook's standard coach bus.
"You see them on TV all the time, but when you see them in person, you see they have better shoes, through their deal with Nike, and they had nicer gear," said Jameel Warney, the star of the 2016 team, now playing for the Dallas Mavericks' Texas Legends developmental league team. "The money a major program like them has is crazy, but at the same time they deserve it. They're on ESPN all the time."
Heilbron said he's "working very hard" to one day put Stony Brook in the position that Kentucky is today.
DISCREPANCY IS WIDENING
Brit Kirwan, former president of the University of Maryland and Ohio State University, said too many schools are engaging in a financial arms race trying to become the next Kentucky. He thinks the financial divide between established major athletic programs and aspiring ones is getting worse, and he expects it to lead to the "collapse of Division I as we know it today."
"We're headed for a train wreck," Kirwan said. "I don't know when exactly it's going to occur. But the trajectory we're on is surely not sustainable."
Heilbron disagrees.
While he acknowledges that the current system "definitely allows" for the major power schools to have more financial freedom, he is confident Stony Brook is growing at a pace within its means.
"It's not discouraging," he said of the divide between Stony Brook and Kentucky. "It's something that is a reality of the college athletic landscape today and we're moving in the right direction within that landscape."
Holy crap. :o
Thanks for the perspective 14. It makes me want to support spliiting off the B5 and having a separate "college" chamionship. Disgusting.
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Quote from: usc4valpo on March 06, 2017, 06:35:16 AM
DePaul is at a staggering $9M! Now that is program that requires an enema.
There doesn't seem to be any WinTrust in that bank that just bought the naming rights to DePaul's arena at McCormick Place. The perfect name indeed.
A good chunk of that is facility rental for Allstate Arena and getting to and from there - the price of not having an on-campus facility or one near campus.
I think that $9M includes still paying off the rest of Oliver Purnell's contract, too, from when he was fired a couple of years ago.
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The State of the College Basketball Union:
Scheduling, Budget and Bids
Prepared by Mark Adams
Date: May 25, 2017
Executive Summary
The investment necessary to secure multiple at-large bids by a league below the P5/Big East level is trending toward a minimum of a $3M investment per team based on recent selection results. In 2015 both Davidson and Boise State received at-large bids and both spent just under $3M on men's basketball. Saint Mary's was the lowest budget team selected as an at large bid for the 2017 NCAA tournament. The Gaels invested nearly $3M on their men's basketball program as per the US Department of Education's most recent report for the 2015-16 academic year. In the 2016 NCAA tournament, all at-large bid recipients spent over $5M on their men's basketball budgets.
Beyond financial investment, scheduling is the next challenge to overcome as a non P5/BE member. During the 2016-17 season OOC schedule, the P5/BE played 88.6% of all their games either at home or on a neutral site. In the other 11.4% of their OOC games they typically played each other which resulted in low risk games. See scheduling evaluation results below:
2016-17 Season P5/BE OOC Scheduling information:
• ACC- 87.3% Home/Neutral, 63.5% at home
• Big Ten- 88.5% Home/Neutral, 68.2% Home
• Big 12- 90.3% Home/Neutral, 64.5% Home
• Big East- 86.9% Home/Neutral, 60.7% Home
• SEC- 89.3% Home/Neutral, 58.5% Home
• PAC 12- 89.7% Home/Neutral, 67.2% Home
A few other conferences by comparison:
• American- 80.7% Home/Neutral, 64.4% Home
• A-10- 76.2% Home/Neutral, 61.6% Home
• MAC- 63.4% Home/Neutral, 45.5% HOME
• C-USA- 60% Home/Neutral, 45.2% Home, 40% Away
Other conferences and typical % of home games during OOC schedule:
• MVC- 45%
• Horizon- 35%
• Sun Belt- 32%
• SWAC- 5.5%
P5/BE TOTAL: 88.6% HOME/NEUTRAL, 64.0% HOME AND ONLY 11.4% AWAY!!!
These facts should paint a clear picture that the scheduling status quo is not working for any other conference not called the P5/BE. These large team budgets from the top six spending conferences are literally buying home games and ultimately buying NCAA bids.
Outside the box thinking, investment and a willingness to explore other options are necessary to break this scheduling trend dominated by the scheduling collusion of the P5/BE. Here are some strategic ideas based on the research below:
SCHEDULING REQUIREMENTS FOR AN AT-LARGE BID:
• Minimum of 6 homes games
• This requires about a $500,000 investment in guarantee money if all are guaranteed games
• Minimum of a $3M investment in men's basketball program (for consistent at-large bid consideration a $5M investment is more reasonable)
• Avoid being bought for a P5/BE home game. If you must, schedule them very late in the process to get the best deal. (I know of one program that recently held out and got a H/H series with a P5 team because they waited until late May)
ALLIANCE STRATEGY:
• Investigate strategically aligning with conferences that invest on average a minimum of $2.5M/team and "typically" rank in the top 16 of the RPI:
o 1st Tier: American, A-10, MWC, WCC
o 2nd Tier: MVC, CAA, MAC, C-USA
Note- C-USA I believe will improve their collective conference RPI based on $2.8M average/team
• Play each conference multiple games either as challenge games or H/H series games
• Cherry pick best team/teams from all alliance partner conferences for exempt tournaments and/or one guaranteed game versus mid/low level power teams
• Multi-classics against each other that rotate sites creates an environment to protect everyone's RPI in OOC games
• The goal is to knock out the last bids given to the P5/BE by creating a scheduling consortium. If alliance partners follow this type of strategy the bottom 6 bids currently going to the P5/BE will be available to the alliance partners.
The Alliance Strategy is designed to create a second scheduling group that can earn bids for lesser funded conferences by simply playing each other and strategically attacking historically weaker and lesser invested P5/BE opponents. If coordinated properly, the last bids going to the P5/BE can be wrestled away with this Alliance Strategy.
Budget, RPI and Bid Information by Conference: (Ranked by size of average budget)
Note: All average budgets listed are for the 2015-16 season and averaged from all individual conference member budgets as reported by US Department of Education. (2015-16 is the last year available)
website: https://ope.ed.gov/athletics/#/institution/search
Note- expenses listed are: 1) grants-in-aid 2) salaries 3) travel, 4) equipment and 5) supplies
Note- RPI ratings listed are for the 2016-17 season as per RealTimeRPI.
NCAA Spending Rank and Comparisons by Conference: (Note: Notice how the rank of average budget by conference and the corresponding RPI Ranks are basically aligned)
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1. ACC
2016-17 RPI- #1
Average Team Budget- $9,736,071 ($146,041,065)
NCAA Bids Last Season: (9)
1. Louisville $17,900,031
2. Duke $17,890,632
3. Syracuse $13,876,720
4. Florida State $11,730,040
5. Virginia Tech $9,478,661
6. Pittsburgh $8,799,110
7. North Carolina $8,667,111
8. Virginia $8,644,445
9. NC State $8,714,435
10. Wake Forest $7,647,068
11. Miami $7,118,296
12. Notre Dame $6,816,663
13. Georgia Tech $6,329,728
14. Clemson $6,403,541
15. Boston College $6,024,594
2. Big 12
2016-17 RPI- #2
Average Team Budget- $9,039,297 ($90,392,970)
NCAA Bids Last Season: (6)
1. Kansas $11,636,720
2. TCU $11,256,999
3. Oklahoma $10,582,714
4. Texas $10,271,419
5. West Virginia $9,322,717
6. Baylor $8,837,724
7. Oklahoma State $7,478,661
8. Texas Tech $7,348,405
9. Iowa State $6,885,453
10. Kansas State $6,772,157
3. SEC
2016-17 RPI- #5
Average Team Budget- $8,225,059 ($115,150,826)
NCAA Bids Last Season: (5)
1. Kentucky $18,910,412
2. Texas A&M $9,301,170
3. Auburn $8,821,985
4. Arkansas $8,702,745
5. Alabama $8,577,428
6. Vanderbilt $8,181,142
7. Ole Miss $7,127,529
8. South Carolina $7,080,820
9. Tennessee $6,989,935
10. Florida $6,718,902
11. Georgia $6,338,487
12. LSU $6,325,362
13. Mississippi State $6,111,629
14. Missouri $5,963,284
4. Big Ten
2016-17 RPI- #4
Average Team Budget- $8,139,166 ($113,948,324)
NCAA Bids Last Season: (7)
1. Indiana $12,129,479
2. Michigan State $10,432,557
3. Wisconsin $9,834,445
4. Ohio State $9,142,079
5. Michigan $8,920,109
6. Minnesota $8,156,541
7. Maryland $7,622,707
8. Illinois $7,341,910
9. Nebraska $7,329,386
10. Iowa $7,218,539
11. Purdue $7,243,691
12. Northwestern $6,771,619
13. Rutgers $6,147,089
14. Penn State $5,658,177
5. Big East
2016-17 RPI- #3
Average Team Budget- $7,881,565.50 ($ 78,815,655)
NCAA Bids Last Season: (7)
1. Georgetown $11,343,826
2. Marquette $11,308,266
3. Villanova $9,447,198
4. St. John's $9,167,279
5. Providence $7,907,240
6. Creighton $7,264,599
7. Seton Hall $6,264,583
8. Xavier $5,710,021
9. Butler $4,833,565
10. DePaul $5,569,062
6. PAC 12
2016-17 RPI- #6
Average Team Budget- $7,141,128 ($85,693,536)
NCAA Bids Last Season: (4)
1. Arizona $11,761,006
2. UCLA $9,032,540
3. California $8,658,628
4. Utah $8,053,466
5. Oregon $7,785,909
6. Arizona State $6,199,000
7. Colorado $6,138,058
8. Stanford $5,727,840
9. USC $5,266,779
10. Washington State $5,118,153
11. Washington $6,453,983
12. Oregon State $5,498,174
P5/BE Total $$$ Spent 2015-16: $630,042,376
AVERAGE P5/BE Men's Basketball Budget 2015-16: $8,400,565
NOTE: 3X the average C-USA budget! ($8.4M/$2.77M)
7. AMERICAN ATHLETIC CONFERENCE
2016-17 RPI- #7
Average Budget: $6,278,593 (w/Wichita State)
NCAA Bids Last Season: (2)
1. Memphis $11,226,419
2. Connecticut $9,516,308
3. Cincinnati $7,421,986
4. SMU $7,086,547
5. Tulsa $6,174,244
6. Houston $6,023,125
7. Temple $5,920,903
8. South Florida $4,711,026
9. Tulane $3,987,379
10. East Carolina $3,187,963
11. UCF $3,166,282
12. Wichita State $6,920,933
8. ATLANTIC 10
2016-17 RPI- #8
Average Budget: $4,126,925
NCAA Bids Last Season: (3)
1. Saint Louis $6,414,061
2. VCU $5,676,415
3. Dayton $5,000,454
4. Richmond $4,849,596
5. URI $4,286,329
6. Duquesne $4,229,922
7. Saint Joseph's $4,208,092
8. Fordham $4,126,729
9. UMASS $4,064,482
10. George Mason $3,342,681
11. LaSalle $2,946,555
12. Saint Bonaventure $2,917,071
13. George Washington $2,915,197
14. Davidson $2,799,370
9. WEST COAST CONFERENCE
2016-17 RPI- #9
Average Budget: $3,858,831
NCAA Bids Last Season: (2)
1. Gonzaga $7,261,657
2. BYU $6,081,807
3. San Francisco $4,205,606
4. Portland $3,570,559
5. LMU $3,533,468
6. Santa Clara $3,345,588
7. Saint Mary's $2,956,340
8. Pepperdine $2,561,072
9. Pacific $2,558,711
10. San Diego $2,513,504
10. MOUNTAIN WEST CONFERENCE
2016-17 RPI- #10
Average Budget: $3,606,644
NCAA Bids Last Season: (1)
1. San Diego State $5,734,713
2. UNLV $5,386,263
3. Colorado State $4,264,867
4. New Mexico $3,736,179
5. Wyoming $3,702,699
6. Utah State $3,363,296
7. Fresno State $3,234,934
8. Boise State $2,503,447
9. Nevada $ 2,288,942
10. San Jose State $1,851,101
11. Air Force NOT AVAILABLE
11. CONFERENCE USA
2016-17 RPI- #23
Average Budget: $2,769,458
NCAA Bids Last Season: (1)
1. UAB $4,189,826
2. UTEP $3,623,777
3. Old Dominion $3,583,117
4. Rice $3,427,660
5. Charlotte $3,280,507
6. Western Kentucky $2,759,058
7. Middle Tennessee State $2,726,526
8. Florida Atlantic $2,598,852
9. North Texas $2,433,472
10. Louisiana Tech $2,443,159
11. Marshall $2,333,564
12. Southern Miss $1,808,186
13. UTSA $1,791,403
14. Florida International $1,773,317
12. MISSOURI VALLEY CONFERENCE (W/O Wichita State)
2016-17 RPI- #12
Average Budget: $2,561,900
NCAA Bids Last Season: (1)
1. Bradley $3,128,419
2. Northern Iowa $2,899,699
3. Evansville $ 2,899,667
4. Loyola $ 2,745,553
5. Valpo $2,666,213
6. Drake $2,472,212
7. Illinois State $2,452,961
8. Missouri State $2,279,917
9. Southern Ill $2,241,413
10. Indiana State $1,832,975[/b]
13. COLONIAL ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION
2016-17 RPI- #11
Average Budget: $2,357,762
NCAA Bids Last Season: (1)
1. James Madison $3,483,621
2. Northeastern $2,913,795
3. Drexel $2,618,412
4. Hofstra $2,545,499
5. UNCW $2,257,718
6. Charleston $2,180,876
7. Elon $2,099,972
8. Towson $2,016,322
9. W&M $1,939,344
10. Delaware $1,521,971
14. MID AMERICAN CONFERENCE
2016-17 RPI- #14
Average Budget: $2,258,727
NCAA Bids Last Season: (1)
1. Ohio $3,101,150
2. Akron $3,088,920
3. Bowling Green $2,389,470
4. Toledo $2,340,047
5. Miami (OH) $2,329,719
6. Western Mich $2,183,818
7. Kent State $2,152,644
8. Buffalo $2,054,470
9. Eastern Mich $2,031,759
10. Ball State $1,905,730
11. Northern Ill $1,880,733
12. Central Mich $1,646,267
15. Big West
2016-17 RPI- #29
Average Budget: $2,221,047
NCAA Bids Last Season: (1)
1. UC Irvine $2,825,452
2. Hawaii $2,813,078
3. Long Beach State $2,717,429
4. UC Santa Barbara $2,453,112
5. Cal Poly $2,095,472
6. CS Northridge $2,060,900
7. UC Davis $1,862,783
8. UC Riverside $1,680,520
9. CS Fullerton $1,480,600
16. Western Athletic
2016-17 RPI- #18
Average Budget: $2,179,776
NCAA Bids Last Season: (1)
1. Grand Canyon $4,306,041
2. Seattle $3,413,715
3. New Mexico State $3,003,045
4. UMKC $1,815,762
5. CSU Bakersfield $1,697,054
6. UT Rio Grande Valley $1,404,530
7. Utah Valley $1,116,338
8. Chicago State $681,728
17. Horizon League
2016-17 RPI- #19
Average Budget: $2,117,054
NCAA Bids Last Season: (1)
1. Milwaukee $2,877,237
2. Detroit Mercy $2,467,735
3. Oakland $2,111,833
4. Wright State $2,445,427
5. UIC $2,231,609
6. Cleveland State $2,172,463
7. Green Bay $1,776,757
8. Northern Kentucky $1,623,294
9. Youngstown State $1,347,141
18. Metro Atlantic Athletic
2016-17 RPI- #16
Average Budget: $2,024,631
NCAA Bids Last Season: (1)
1. Fairfield $2,590,915
2. Quinnipiac $2,516,824
3. Iona $2,308,176
4. Manhattan $2,097,510
5. Monmouth $2,054,441
6. Canisius $2,027,506
7. Marist $1,865,144
8. Rider $1,774,910
9. Niagara $1,622,963
10. Saint Peter's $1,387,927
19. Patriot League
2016-17 RPI- #22
Average Budget: $1,971,590
NCAA Bids Last Season: (1)
1. Holy Cross $2,403,572
2. Bucknell $2,172,546
3. Boston University $2,093,165
4. Loyola (MD) $2,048,853
5. American $1,934,639
6. Colgate $1,821,178
7. Lafayette $1,816,334
8. Lehigh $1,482,439
9. Navy N/A
10. Army N/A
20. SUN BELT CONFERENCE
2016-17 RPI- #13
Average Budget: $1,728,555
NCAA Bids Last Season: (1)
1. UL Lafayette $ 2,332,684
2. Little Rock $2,283,345
3. Georgia State $2,261,334
4. C Carolina $1,882,982
5. Texas State $1,824,046
6. South Alabama $1,754,970
7. App State $1,588,454
8. UT Arlington $1,549,654
9. Arkansas State $1,389,844
10. Ga Southern $1,361,765
11. Troy $1,355,678
12. UL Monroe $1,157,908
21. Summit
2016-17 RPI- #17
Average Budget: $1.719,995
NCAA Bids Last Season: (1)
1. Denver $3,361,111
2. Oral Roberts $2,741,483
3. UPUI $1,564,479
4. South Dakota State $1,443,001
5. North Dakota State $1,417,450
6. Omaha $1,288,481
7. Fort Wayne $1,269,206
8. Western Illinois $1,238,197
9. South Dakota $1,156,551
22. America East
2016-17 RPI- #21
Average Budget: $1,704,362
NCAA Bids Last Season: (1)
1. Stony Brook $2,435,574
2. Hartford $2,257,904
3. Albany $1,621,247
4. Vermont $1,579,502
5. New Hampshire $1,534,596
6. UMass Lowell $1,506,032
7. UMBC $1,485,381
8. Binghamton $1,590,639
9. Maine $1,328,389
23. Northeast Conference
2016-17 RPI- 30
Average Budget $1,642,828
NCAA Bids last season (1)
1. Robert Morris $1,962,797
2. LIU Brooklyn $1,805,546
3. Bryant $1,796,753
4. FDU $1,695,086
5. Mount Saint Mary's $1,687,798
6. Wagner $1,597,445
7. Saint Francis NY $1,529,048
8. CCSU $1,511,666
9. Sacred Heart $1,431,536
10. Saint Francis PA $1,410,698
24. Big South
2016-17 RPI- #27
Average Budget: $1,626,189
NCAA Bids Last Season: (1)
1. Liberty $3,720,371
2. High Point $1,747,761
3. Campbell $1,581,464
4. Gardner Webb $1,505,676
5. Longwood $1,466,648
6. Charleston Southern $1,458,792
7. Winthrop $1,303,194
8. Radford $1,327,458
9. Presbyterian $1,215,955
10. UNC Asheville $934,569
25. Atlantic Sun
2016-17 RPI- #25
Average Budget: $1,567,633
NCAA Bids Last Season: (1)
1. NJIT $1,823,046
2. Jacksonville $1,653,294
3. Stetson $1,623,909
4. FGCU $1,723,011
5. Lipscomb $ 1,756,611
6. North Florida $1,538,518
7. Kennesaw State $1,435,160
8. South Carolina Upstate $987,517
26. Big Sky
2016-17 RPI- 29
Average Budget $1,528,844
NCAA Bids last season (1)
1. Idaho $1,821,491
2. Weber State $1,799,880
3. Montana State $1,679,625
4. Montana $1,678,354
5. Northern Arizona $1,611,995
6. North Dakota $1,579,108
7. Eastern Washington $1,564,917
8. Northern Colorado $1,490,726
9. Sacramento State $1,433,424
10. Idaho State $1,290,851
11. Portland State $1,284,182
12. Southern Utah $1,111,575
27. SOUTHERN CONFERENCE
2016-17 RPI- #15
Average Budget: $1,508,532
NCAA Bids Last Season: (1)
1. Furman $2,179,662
2. Mercer $1,883,578
3. Samford $1,821,098
4. East Tennessee State $1,818,542
5. Chattanooga $1,793,638
6. The Citadel $1,527,117
7. UNC Greensboro $1,506,556
8. Wofford $1,506,228
9. VMI $1,322,136
10. Western Carolina $1,082,372
28. OVC
2016-17 RPI- 26
Average Budget $1.499M
NCAA Bids last season (1)
1. UTM $1.34
2. SEMO $1.2
3. Murray $2.2
4. APSU $1.3
5. EIU $1.0
6. SIUE $1.0
7. Morehead $1.5
8. Belmont $2.95
9. JSU $1.1
10. EKU $1.9
11. TSU $1.3
12. TTU $1.2
29. Ivy League
2016-17 RPI- #20
Average Budget: $1,238,572
NCAA Bids Last Season: (1)
1. Pennsylvania $1,546,923
2. Columbia $1,494,045
3. Dartmouth $1,386,651
4. Harvard $1,296,186
5. Yale $1,229,771
6. Princeton $1,117,914
7. Brown $1,044,289
8. Cornell $792,795
30. Mid-Eastern
2016-17 RPI- 32
Average Budget $1,208,068
NCAA Bids last season (1)
1. North Carolina Central $1,752,803
2. Howard $1,682,347
3. Delaware State $1,521,971
4. Morgan State $1,363,395
5. North Carolina A&T $1,355,182
6. Bethune-Cookman $1,203,595
7. Norfolk State $1,170,179
8. Hampton $1,154,030
9. Maryland- Eastern Shore $1,135,732
10. Florida A&M $1,068,173
11. South Carolina State $806,005
12. Savannah State $752,761
13. Coppin State $738,712
31. Southland
2016-17 RPI- 28
Average Budget $1,190,460
NCAA Bids last season (1)
1. SFA $2,188,109
2. TX AMCC $1,680,402
3. Lamar $1,377,911
4. Houston Baptist $1,273,000
5. Abilene Christian $1,109,152
6. Central Arkansas $1,095,560
7. Sam Houston State $1,087,458
8. Northwestern State $1,023,827
9. SE Louisiana $978,939
10. New Orleans $954,002
11. McNeese $819,396
12. Nicholls $697,767
13. Incarnate Word (not available)
32. Southwestern Athletic
2016-17 RPI- 31
Average Budget $770,015
NCAA Bids last season (1)
1. Texas Southern $1,400,553
2. Prairie View A&M $910,637
3. Alabama State $859,867
4. Alabama A&M $817,868
5. Grambling $678,446
6. Alcorn State $629,683
7. Jackson State $619,321
8. Arkansas Pine Bluff $507,962
9. Mississippi Valley State $505,795
10. Baton Rouge- Not available
NCAA Men's Basketball Spending Tiers:
Top Spending Tier:
1. ACC $9.7M
2. Big 12 $9.0M
3. SEC $8.2M
4. Big Ten $8.1M
5. Big East $7.9M
6. PAC 12 $7.1M
7. American $6.3M
2nd Spending Tier:
8. A-10 $4.1M
9. WCC $3.86M
10. MWC $3.6M
3rd Spending Tier:
11. C-USA $2.8M
12. MVC $2.56M
4th Spending Tier:
13. CAA $2.36
14. MAC $2.26M
15. Big West $2.2M
16. WAC $2.2M
17. Horizon $2.1M
18. MAAC $2.0M
19. Patriot $1.97M
5th Spending Tier:
20. Sun Belt $1.7M
21. Summit $1.7M
22. America East $1.7M
23. NEC $1.6M
24. Big South $1.6M
25. Atlantic Sun $1.56M
26. Big Sky $1.5M
27. SOCON $1.5M
28. OVC $1.5M
6th Spending Tier:
29. Ivy $1.2M
30. MEAC $1.2M
31. Southland $1.2M
32. SWAC $770K
NCAA RPI and Bid Information:
Only conferences w/multi bids 4 straight seasons:
1. ACC: 28 total bids (9, 7, 6, 6) Average Team Budget- $9,736,071
2. Big 12: 27 (6, 7, 7, 7) Average Team Budget- $9,039,297
3. Big Ten: 27 (7, 7, 7, 6) Average Team Budget- $8,139,166
4. Big East: 22 (7, 5, 6, 4) Average Team Budget- $7,881,565.50
5. Pac-12: 21 (4, 7, 4, 6) Average Team Budget- $7,141,128
6. SEC: 16 (5, 3, 5, 3) Average Team Budget- $8,225,059
7. A-10: 15 (3, 3, 3, 6) Average Budget: $4,126,925
8. AAC: 12 (2, 4, 2, 4) Average Budget: $6,278,593
TOP 12 RPI CONFERENCES BY RPI AVERAGE LAST 4 SEASONS (2014-17
1. Big 12: 2, 1, 1, 1 = (1.25) Average Team Budget- $9,039,297
2. ACC: 1, 3, 3, 5= (3.0) Average Team Budget- $9,736,071
3. Big East: 3, 4, 2, 3= (3.0) Average Team Budget- $7,881,565.50
4. Big Ten: 4, 5, 4, 2= (3.75) Average Team Budget- $8,139,166
5. PAC 12: 6, 2, 5, 3= (4.0) Average Team Budget- $7,141,128
6. SEC: 5, 6, 6, 7= (6.0) Average Team Budget- $8,225,059
7. A-10: 8, 7, 7, 6= (7.0) Average Budget: $4,126,925
8. AAC: 7, 8, 8, 8= (7.75) Average Budget: $6,278,593
9. WCC: 9, 14, 9, 9= (10.25) Average Budget: $3,858,831
10. MWC: 10, 12, 11, 10= (10.75) Average Budget: $3,606,644
11. MAC: 14, 10, 10, 12= (11.5) Average Budget: $2,258,727
12. MVC: 12, 13, 12, 11= (12.0) Average Budget: $2,561,900
KEY!!! 2017 NCAA At Large Bids outside P5/BE Results: (LOOK AT WHO THEY BEAT OOC!!! This aligns with the scheduling strategy listed in the executive summary)
• Saint Mary's- Won vs VCU, Lost 2nd round to Arizona
o OOC Wins: #29 Nevada, #30 Dayton, #45 UTA (LOSS), #94 USF
• Cincinnati- Won vs K State, Lost 2nd round to UCLA
o OOC Wins: #21 Iowa State, (Lost to #15 Butler), #37 Xavier
• Dayton- Lost 1st round to Wichita State
o OOC Wins: @ #78 Alabama, #86 New Mexico, #70 Winthrop, #55 E Tenn St, #38 Vandy
• VCU- Lost 1st round to SMC
o OOC Wins: #73 UNC-Asheville, #37 Princeton, #35 MTSU
2017 NCAA Tournament- Biggest Budget Upsets
• #12 Middle Tennessee 81 ($2.7M) #5 Minnesota 72 ($8.15M) $5.45M discrepancy
• #11 Rhode Island 84 ($4.3M) #6 Creighton 72 ($7.3M) $3M discrepancy
2017 NCAA At Large Bids outside P5/BE Results:
• Saint Mary's ($3M)- Won vs VCU, Lost 2nd round to Arizona
• Cincinnati ($7.4M)- Won vs K State, Lost 2nd round to UCLA
• Dayton ($5M)- Lost 1st round to Wichita State
• VCU ($5.4M)- Lost 1st round to SMC
Note: ALL SPEND OVER $3M ON MEN'S BASKETBALL as per numbers in parentheses)
Spending and At Large Bids
2017 NCAA At Large Bids outside P5/BE:
• Saint Mary's ($3M)
• Cincinnati ($7.4M)
• Dayton ($5M)
• VCU ($5.4M)
2016 NCAA At Large Bids outside P5/BE :
• Temple ($5.9M)
• Wichita State ($6.9M)
• Cincinnati ($7.4M)
• VCU ($5.4M)
• Tulsa ($6.2M)
• Dayton ($5M)
2015 NCAA At Large Bids outside P5/BE:
• Boise State (2.5M)
• Dayton ($5M)
• Wichita State ($6.9M)
• Cincinnati ($7.4M)
• San Diego State ($5.7M)
• Davidson (2.8M)
• BYU ($6.1M)
Spending and At Large Bids Conclusions
What do the at large bids outside P5/BE have in common?
• All 17 bids from AAC, A-10, MWC, MVC, WCC
• All spend over $2.5M (Boise State at minimum, 2015)
• All conferences averaged over $2.9M/team (Note: C-USA $2.8M)
• ALL OTHERS PLAYED MINIMUM of 6 HOME GAMES (Except BSU as noted below)
• Worst Schedule: Boise State played 13 OOC games 2014-15: 4 neutral games, 5 home (2 non-D1), 4 away games, OOC SOS #114, Best OOC win over #68 Saint Mary's, Beat #29 CSU and #26 SDSU 2X in conference
• MWC was #11 RPI Conference but received two at large bids, three total
A Little more NCAA Bid History...2012-17 NCAA Basketball Tournament Total-Bids by Conference:
1. Big Ten: 40
2. Big 12: 38
3. Big East: 39
4. ACC: 37
5. Pac-12: 28
6. A-10: 24
7. SEC: 23
8. MWC: 16
9. WCC: 12
10. AAC: 11 (note- not in existence 2012-13)
11. MVC: 10
Budget/RPI Facts
• Top 50 RPI: 34 P5/BE teams
• Top 50 RPI: 41 spend over $4M (9 others spend between $2.9M-$1.1M)
• Top 100 RPI: 76 programs spend over $2.9M
• Top 100 RPI: MWC/A-10/AAC/WCC combined had 19 teams in top 100:
o MWC (6), A-10 (5), AAC (4), WCC (4)
• 55% (55-100) of all top 100 RPI teams are from P5-BE. (Lowest budget? Butler: $4.8M #91 Budget Rank/#15 RPI Rank, best value team)
• 55 of 75 (73.3%) P5/BE members in top 100 RPI and 66 of 75 (88%) in top 150 RPI
• P5/BE represent 21.4% of NCAA college basketball D1 members but 55% of RPI top 100
• Top 100 RPI: 80 programs spend over $2.5M
• Multi Top 100 Teams by RPI by Conference: ACC: (12), Big Ten (11), SEC (10), PAC 12 (8), Big 12: (7), Big East (7), MWC (6), A-10 (5), AAC (4), WCC (4), CAA (3), SOCON (3), MVC (2), MAAC (2), WAC (2), Patriot (2), HL (2), Big South (2)
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