by our College Data Analytics TeamOn this page we break down Basketball at Purdue University Fort Wayne, a winter sport — the roster, coaching, finances and academics, broken out by gender and stacked against the school’s other sports. PFW competes in NCAA Division I without football as a member of Horizon League.
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The PFW men’s basketball team fields 15 athletes, with an NCAA multi-year squad size of 52. The most recent cohort included 52 athletes in this program for its academic reporting.
The PFW women’s basketball team lists 14 athletes, with an NCAA multi-year squad size of 51. Academic data covers 56 athletes in this program for its academic reporting.
Across both rosters, PFW fields 29 basketball athletes — 15 on the men’s side and 14 on the women’s.
Of the 10 varsity sports PFW sponsors, basketball ranks #7 by total roster size.
The men’s basketball program is staffed by 4 coaches — 1 head coach and 3 assistants. Staffing-wise, 3 work full-time and 1 part-time. The head coach is Jon Coffman.
The women’s basketball program carries 5 coaches — 1 head coach and 4 assistants. In all, 5 are full-time and 0 part-time. Leading the program is Kate Peterson Abiad.
Side by side, the men’s program carries 4 coaches to the women’s 5.
Across the school’s 10 sports, basketball ranks #3 by total coaching staff.
The figures below come from the U.S. Department of Education’s Equity in Athletics survey.
The PFW men’s basketball program brought in $3,420,827 in revenue against $2,646,771 in expenses, netting $774,056. Per athlete, that is about $36,443 in operating expense per athlete, or $546,641 per team.
The PFW women’s basketball program generated $2,087,914 in revenue against $1,689,394 in expenses, for a surplus of $398,520. That works out to about $21,957 in operating expense per athlete, or $307,400 per team.
Between the genders, the men’s team generated $3,420,827 to the women’s $2,087,914 in revenue.
Against the school’s 10 sports, basketball sits #1 by revenue, or about 36% of the school’s total athletics revenue.
The men’s basketball team earned an Academic Progress Rate (APR) of 984 (985 on a multi-year basis) and a Graduation Success Rate of 100%. It retained 97% of its athletes, with 99% remaining academically eligible.
The women’s basketball team recorded an Academic Progress Rate (APR) of 995 (948 on a multi-year basis) and a Graduation Success Rate of 73%. Year over year, it held onto 92% of its athletes, with 95% remaining academically eligible.
Between the genders, the men posted an APR of 984 and the women 995, with graduation success rates of 100% and 73% respectively.
Relative to the school’s average team APR of 986, basketball comes in above the pack at 990.
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Blank metrics mean the data was not reported for this team.