South Carolina-one of the few schools to spend more on its women’s teams than its men’s in a handful of categories, including coaching compensation-still spent twice as much on meals for its men’s basketball team than its women’s.
The same year, the Huskies’ men’s team outspent the women by half a million dollars on travel, which accounts for expenses that include flights or bus costs, food and lodging. UConn’s men’s basketball team, for instance, spent nearly $100,000 more on non-travel meals than the women’s team did during FY20. Those gaps almost always favored the men’s program, even at some of the top women’s basketball programs in the country. Men’s basketball teams outspent their female counterparts in non-travel meals by a factor of two-just some of the spending disparities found in figures disclosed by schools to the NCAA in annual financial reports, obtained through open records requests and now documented in Sportico’s intercollegiate finances database. Spending gaps are common within athletic departments, even in sports played by both men and women, like basketball, with relatively equal roster sizes and sport needs.ĭuring the 2020 fiscal year, which captured the 2019-20 winter basketball season, disparities in travel-related expenses for men’s and women’s basketball teams at public Power 5 institutions and UConn amounted to $20.6 million. But instances of such inequities aren’t exclusive to the NCAA.
Disparities found at last spring’s men’s and women’s NCAA basketball tournaments prompted an outside analysis of gender equity within the college sports’ governing body. The 2021-22 college hoops campaign tipped off this month after an off-season filled with conversations about the NCAA’s comparative treatment of men’s and women’s sports.
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