President Jim Stepp | Alice Lloyd College
President Jim Stepp | Alice Lloyd College
Overall, basketball teams in the county received a total of $205,438, with the women’s team receiving $115,088.
Since 2010, the average sports expenses in Knott County have grown 143.5%.
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 | $115,088 | 13.1% | $877,359 |
2022 | $123,241 | 14.9% | $828,088 |
2021 | $127,002 | 16.3% | $777,314 |
2020 | $110,345 | 16.9% | $653,765 |
2019 | $123,262 | 15.7% | $784,247 |