Here's how much everybody spent to make the College Baseball and Softball Tournaments

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When we built the Extra Points Library, one of the documents we sought from every single public D-I and D-II institution was their itemized NCAA Financial Report. This report is a budget that breaks down exactly where athletic department revenues come from, and where they spent their money. It’s also helpfully itemized by sport.

Is this data perfect? No, nothing in college sports accounting is perfect. But as far as I’m aware, it’s the best standardized data set we have when it comes to finances and college athletics.

Using this data, I dug into the reported team-specific budgets for every baseball and softball program that earned a spot in their respective NCAA Tournament.

These budget numbers do not include athlete NIL payments. The budgets reported to the NCAA are for team operational expenses. These budgets cover things like coaching salaries, team travel, athlete meals, athlete equipment, game guarantees, recruiting, advanced stats software, severance payments, etc.

I obtain copies of university NCAA Financial Reports thanks to lots and lots of Open Records Act requests. That means that I do not have access to financial reporting from private schools, or from public athletic departments that are exempt from traditional records requests, like UCF. If anybody would like to leak those reports to me, I’d be more than happy to give you free access to the Extra Point Library in exchange. Y’all have my email.

Here are the reported team baseball budgets for College Baseball Tournament participants:

List continued, along with the softball data and some #takeaways, after the jump:

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