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Top Women's Basketball NIL Schools 2026

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Compare 133 Division I programs by The Sideline's current women's basketball NIL roster estimates. Sort by value, filter by conference and open any school for its full player and sport breakdown.

Women's Basketball market
$138.1M
Programs ranked
133
Top program
South Carolina · $5.65M
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Women's Basketball NIL spending rankings

Women's Basketball NIL School Market

Tracked total
$138.1M
Programs
133
Leader
South Carolina

Showing 10 of 133 schools ranked by Women's Basketball NIL value

1
South Carolina

South Carolina

SECPower 4
$5.7M

$5.7M

WBB value

Open
2
Texas A&M

Texas A&M

SECPower 4
$5.3M

$5.3M

WBB value

Open
3
LSU

LSU

SECPower 4
$4.3M

$4.3M

WBB value

Open
#4
USC

USC

Big TenPower 4
$4.1M

$4.1M

WBB value

Open
#5
Notre Dame

Notre Dame

ACCPower 4
$4.0M

$4.0M

WBB value

Open
#6
Georgia

Georgia

SECPower 4
$3.0M

$3.0M

WBB value

Open
#7
Texas

Texas

SECPower 4
$2.7M

$2.7M

WBB value

Open
#8
Baylor

Baylor

Big 12Power 4
$2.6M

$2.6M

WBB value

Open
#9
Drake

Drake

Missouri ValleyBasketball
$2.6M

$2.6M

WBB value

Open
#10
Missouri

Missouri

SECPower 4
$2.6M

$2.6M

WBB value

Open

$3.9B

Total D1 Market

All listed programs

$2.5B

Power 4 Market

SEC · Big Ten · ACC · Big 12

$29.5M

#1 — South Carolina

Highest single school

357

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Current data

Top program

South Carolina leads at $29.5M

Top conference

SEC owns the deepest top-10 NIL footprint

Power 4 total

$2.5B across SEC, Big Ten, ACC, and Big 12

Tracked programs

357 D1 schools ranked with school pages

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Women's Basketball NIL spending by school

Each figure is The Sideline's best current estimate for the active women's basketballroster market. It combines available public benchmarks with roster, conference and player-level inputs. It is not a school payroll, a single collective's budget or a list of verified contracts.

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