by our College Data Analytics TeamHere we dig into Basketball at Union University, a winter sport — the roster, coaching, finances and academics, broken out by gender and stacked against the school’s other sports. Union competes in NCAA Division II without football as a member of Gulf South Conference.
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The Union men’s basketball team fields 14 athletes.
The Union women’s basketball team carries 17 athletes.
Across both rosters, Union fields 31 basketball athletes — 14 on the men’s side and 17 on the women’s.
Of the 7 varsity sports Union sponsors, basketball sits at #3 by total roster size.
The men’s basketball program carries 5 coaches — 1 head coach and 4 assistants. Of those, 2 are full-time and 3 part-time. The head coach is David Niven.
The women’s basketball program is staffed by 3 coaches — 1 head coach and 2 assistants. In all, 2 work full-time and 1 part-time. Leading the program is Mark Campbell.
Comparing the two, men’s program carries 5 coaches to the women’s 3.
Among the school’s 7 sports, basketball sits #1 by total coaching staff.
The figures below come from the U.S. Department of Education’s Equity in Athletics survey.
The Union men’s basketball program brought in $731,880 in revenue against $698,809 in expenses, for a surplus of $33,071. That works out to about $5,630 in operating expense per athlete, or $78,814 per team.
The Union women’s basketball program generated $998,789 in revenue against $938,451 in expenses, a net profit of $60,338. Per athlete, that is about $7,454 in operating expense per athlete, or $126,725 per team.
Side by side, the men’s team generated $731,880 to the women’s $998,789 in revenue.
Among the school’s 7 sports, basketball sits #1 by revenue, accounting for 24% of the school’s total athletics revenue.
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Some figures may be missing where the school did not report them.