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Taking this from another site but I thought it was interesting.

School........Enrollment......... Endowment
Geo Mason..33320............... $51,600,000
VCU.......... 31899............... $349,700,000
DePaul....24966.............. $414,000,000
St John's ...21354...............$267,000,000
Georgetown 17130..............$1,160,000,000
Wichita St...14806.............$170,100,000
Saint Louis..13785..............$880,300,000
Marquette...12002..........$401,200,000
Villanova......10482............$370,000,000
Dayton........10068............$598,400,000
Seton Hall.....9245.......... $231,000,000
Gonzaga.......7764.............$121,000,000
Creighton......7730.............$375,200,000
Xavier..........6945.............$117,400,000
Butler ..........4677..............$155,000,000
Providence....4587............$164,000,000
Richmond......4250................$1,880,000,000

Holy cow on Richmond!

I'm not in academia so maybe someone can explain why the endowment matters. I know having more is better, but once you get over a certain amount what impact does it have? The schools never touch this money right?

Hoya wrote:I'm not in academia so maybe someone can explain why the endowment matters. I know having more is better, but once you get over a certain amount what impact does it have? The schools never touch this money right?

I think it speaks to financial security but other than that, I don't think it has much impact on basketball. Harvard has like the largest endowment, obviously, they aren't investing a ton of it in basketball.