President Garnett S. Stokes | University of New Mexico-Main Campus
President Garnett S. Stokes | University of New Mexico-Main Campus
Overall, basketball teams in the county received a total of $7,687,057, with the men’s team receiving $4,908,879.
Since 2010, the average sports expenses in Bernalillo County have grown 51.7%.
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 | $4,908,879 | 10.7% | $45,941,398 |
2022 | $4,273,228 | 9.7% | $43,922,247 |
2021 | $3,253,575 | 9.4% | $34,542,739 |
2020 | $4,176,344 | 11.1% | $37,576,010 |
2019 | $4,206,654 | 10.5% | $39,982,066 |