MU basketball is expensive, but profitable
The Marquette University men's basketball team plays in the highly competitive Big East Conference.
Highly competitive and highly expensive.
As noted in a brief item in the Chicago Tribune, the Marquette men's program spends more on men's basketball than any other team in the 16-team conference. As reported in a federal Department of Education database, Marquette had expenses of $10,306,548 in the year ending last June 30.
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