WSU's MBB Budget

[Shocker1976]

Financial support of D1 MBB is a major determinant regards the quality of a given university’s team and the conference in which they compete. Clearly the failure of MVC members to adequately support their teams played a role in WSU move to the AAC.

Currently WSU budgets $8,182,863 to fund MBB which ranks 3rd in the AAC (excluding UGone) trailing Houston ($9,219,796) and Memphis ($8,217,757). Average AAC school budget is $6,544,750, while the mean budget is $6,487,460.

WSU’s budget ranks 60th of all schools sponsoring a D1 MBB program. For information and comparison purposes the budget for Gonzaga and the mean budgets for the P6 MBB schools are -

Zags $10,496,251

Big 12 $10,435,649

ACC $10,295,048

SEC $9,707,167

B1G $9,392,628

Big E $9,325,902 (including UGone)

PAC12 $7,801,293

[Shocker_Power]

Those Zag's numbers make no sense considering the conference they are in.

[Bluzrover]

Those Zag's numbers make no sense considering the conference they are in.

But probably is a contributing factor to their continued success at the top of the conference as well as the national rankings.

[im4wsu]

Those Zag's numbers make no sense considering the conference they are in.

How much does the regional cost of living impact these budget numbers? Washington State index is 110.7 compared to Kansas 89.

Looking at Pac-12, maybe not as much as an influence as I first thought