by our College Data Analytics TeamThis page takes a deep look at Basketball at University of Colorado Boulder, a winter sport — team by team, topic by topic, with gender and cross-sport comparisons throughout. CU - Boulder competes in NCAA Division I-FBS as a member of Big 12 Conference.
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The CU - Boulder men’s basketball team carries 17 athletes, with an NCAA multi-year squad size of 52. Academic data covers 52 athletes in this program for its academic reporting.
The CU - Boulder women’s basketball team lists 24 student athletes, with an NCAA multi-year squad size of 53. The most recent cohort included 59 athletes in this program for its academic reporting.
Across both rosters, CU - Boulder carries 41 basketball athletes — 17 on the men’s side and 24 on the women’s.
Among the 11 varsity sports CU - Boulder sponsors, basketball comes in at #3 by total roster size.
The men’s basketball program is staffed by 6 coaches — 1 head coach and 5 assistants. Staffing-wise, 6 work full-time and 0 part-time. The head coach is Tad Boyle.
The women’s basketball program is staffed by 6 coaches — 1 head coach and 5 assistants. Staffing-wise, 6 work full-time and 0 part-time. At the helm is J.R. Payne.
Comparing the two, men’s program carries 6 coaches to the women’s 6.
Among the school’s 11 sports, basketball sits #3 by total coaching staff.
The figures below come from the U.S. Department of Education’s Equity in Athletics survey.
The CU - Boulder men’s basketball program brought in $11,918,793 in revenue against $8,608,358 in expenses, netting $3,310,435. Per athlete, that is about $124,100 in operating expense per athlete, or $2,109,692 per team.
The CU - Boulder women’s basketball program reported $2,337,461 in revenue against $5,177,230 in expenses, coming up short by $2,839,769. This comes to about $56,900 in operating expense per athlete, or $1,365,593 per team.
Comparing the two programs, the men’s team generated $11,918,793 to the women’s $2,337,461 in revenue.
Against the school’s 11 sports, basketball sits #2 by revenue, or about 9% of the school’s total athletics revenue.
The men’s basketball team earned an Academic Progress Rate (APR) of 1000 (961 on a multi-year basis) and a Graduation Success Rate of 64%. The program kept 95% of its athletes, with 96% remaining academically eligible.
The women’s basketball team earned an Academic Progress Rate (APR) of 1000 (985 on a multi-year basis) and a Graduation Success Rate of 100%. Year over year, it held onto 96% of its athletes, with 100% remaining academically eligible.
Between the genders, the men posted an APR of 1000 and the women 1000, with graduation success rates of 64% and 100% respectively.
Compared with the school’s average team APR of 989, basketball grades out ahead at 1000.
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Blank metrics mean the data was not reported for this team.