Mung Chiang President | Purdue University-Main Campus
Mung Chiang President | Purdue University-Main Campus
Overall, basketball teams in the county received a total of $14,701,134, with the women’s team receiving $4,206,194.
Since 2010, the average sports expenses in Tippecanoe County have grown 80.8%.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | $4,206,194 | 4% | $105,239,251 |
| 2022 | $4,577,307 | 5.1% | $89,722,572 |
| 2021 | $3,587,637 | 5.2% | $69,246,230 |
| 2020 | $4,426,155 | 5.2% | $84,965,161 |
| 2019 | $4,242,993 | 4.7% | $90,417,639 |
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