by our College Data Analytics TeamHere we dig into Basketball at University of Wisconsin-Platteville, a winter sport — the roster, coaching, finances and academics, broken out by gender and stacked against the school’s other sports. UW - Platteville plays at the level of NCAA Division III with football as a member of Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.
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The UW - Platteville men’s basketball team fields 19 players.
The UW - Platteville women’s basketball team fields 20 players.
Across both rosters, UW - Platteville fields 39 basketball athletes — 19 on the men’s side and 20 on the women’s.
Of the 11 varsity sports UW - Platteville sponsors, basketball sits at #5 by total roster size.
The men’s basketball program carries 4 coaches — 1 head coach and 3 assistants. Of those, 1 are full-time and 3 part-time. Leading the program is Jeff Gard.
The women’s basketball program employs 2 coaches — 1 head coach and 1 assistant. Staffing-wise, 2 are full-time and 0 part-time. At the helm is Kelly McNiff.
Side by side, the men’s program carries 4 coaches to the women’s 2.
Across the school’s 11 sports, basketball sits #3 by total coaching staff.
Financial data is drawn from the U.S. Department of Education’s Equity in Athletics survey.
The UW - Platteville men’s basketball program generated $506,628 in revenue against $494,269 in expenses, for a surplus of $12,359. Per athlete, that is about $5,089 in operating expense per athlete, or $96,693 per team.
The UW - Platteville women’s basketball program reported $281,032 in revenue against $269,300 in expenses, for a surplus of $11,732. That works out to about $3,418 in operating expense per athlete, or $68,359 per team.
Comparing the two programs, the men’s team generated $506,628 to the women’s $281,032 in revenue.
Against the school’s 11 sports, basketball sits #2 by revenue, accounting for 14% of the school’s total athletics revenue.
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Some figures may be missing where the school did not report them.