by our College Data Analytics TeamHere we dig into Basketball at Colby College, a winter sport — team by team, topic by topic, with gender and cross-sport comparisons throughout. Colby plays at the level of NCAA Division III with football as a member of New England Small College Athletic Conference.
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The Colby men’s basketball team fields 18 athletes.
The Colby women’s basketball team lists 15 athletes.
Across both rosters, Colby carries 33 basketball athletes — 18 on the men’s side and 15 on the women’s.
Of the 20 varsity sports Colby sponsors, basketball sits at #13 by total roster size.
The men’s basketball program employs 3 coaches — 1 head coach and 2 assistants. Staffing-wise, 2 work full-time and 1 part-time. The head coach is Sean Rutigliano.
The women’s basketball program is staffed by 5 coaches — 1 head coach and 4 assistants. Of those, 1 work full-time and 4 part-time. The head coach is Chenel Harris-Smith.
Comparing the two, men’s program carries 3 coaches to the women’s 5.
Among the school’s 20 sports, basketball ranks #2 by total coaching staff.
These numbers are reported to the U.S. Department of Education’s Equity in Athletics survey.
The Colby men’s basketball program reported $393,354 in revenue against $393,354 in expenses, right at break-even. That works out to about $5,013 in operating expense per athlete, or $90,226 per team.
The Colby women’s basketball program generated $331,549 in revenue against $331,549 in expenses, essentially breaking even. Per athlete, that is about $5,820 in operating expense per athlete, or $87,298 per team.
Side by side, the men’s team brought in $393,354 to the women’s $331,549 in revenue.
Against the school’s 20 sports, basketball sits #4 by revenue, or about 6% of the school’s total athletics revenue.
If Colby places on one of our Best Schools for a Sport list, we include that ranking. Our sports rankings reward schools that excel on the field and in the classroom.
Some figures may be missing where the school did not report them.