Dr. Ruth Ray Jackson President of Langston University | langston.edu
Dr. Ruth Ray Jackson President of Langston University | langston.edu
Overall, basketball teams in the county received a total of $1,031,953, with the men’s team receiving $617,080.
Since 2010, the average sports expenses in Logan County have grown 59%.
Basketball is one of the most popular sports played at U.S. colleges, as well as football. NCAA basketball teams are often as popular as NBA teams, and offer a different experience for fans.
In 2022, after a decades-long fight, student-athletes nationwide gained the right to profit from their names, likenesses, and images as a result of a flurry of new state laws and an NCAA policy change.
The basketball fund received around 168.57 million dollars from NCAA revenue in 2020–21.
Year | Basketball team's expenditures | % from grand total sport team expenditures | Total Sport Team Expenditures |
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2023 | $617,080 | 23% | $2,680,647 |
2022 | $212,525 | 8.5% | $2,508,108 |
2021 | $184,490 | 10.2% | $1,810,369 |
2020 | $240,440 | 11.6% | $2,079,308 |
2019 | $251,465 | 11.3% | $2,220,898 |