Steve Watkin President | Bakersfield College
Steve Watkin President | Bakersfield College
Overall, basketball teams in the county received a total of $4,380,770, with women’s teams receiving $1,719,826.
Since 2010, the average sports expenses in Kern County have grown 139.3%.
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 | $1,719,826 | 7.3% | $23,577,007 |
2022 | $1,654,395 | 7.8% | $21,313,062 |
2021 | $1,289,671 | 7.4% | $17,538,631 |
2020 | $1,601,745 | 7.7% | $20,752,811 |
2019 | $1,672,992 | 7% | $24,065,497 |