President Marion Ross Fedrick | Albany State University
President Marion Ross Fedrick | Albany State University
Overall, basketball teams in the county received a total of $677,457, with men’s teams receiving $339,726.
Since 2010, the average sports expenses in Dougherty County have grown 70.5%.
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 | $339,726 | 9.3% | $3,667,935 |
2022 | $403,474 | 10.1% | $3,985,214 |
2021 | $339,228 | 12.3% | $2,751,088 |
2020 | $325,004 | 8.9% | $3,659,328 |
2019 | $329,460 | 8.7% | $3,804,984 |