The nearly four dozen public universities with teams in the NCAA men's basketball tournament are paying their head coaches more than $96 million combined in annual compensation.

On average, each coach makes $2,139,107; the payouts total $96,259,815. Those numbers do not include benefits or outside income.

A few things to be aware of: In some cases, the pay includes money that comes directly from the school, as well as money from nonprofit organizations related to the school or specially allocated funds from private donors. For instance, Nevada coach Eric Musselman earns a base salary of $1 million per year, thanks to a five-year contract he signed in May 2017. But $600,000 of this comes from private donors and ticket sales, according to the Nevada Appeal.

It's also undeniable that some college coaches bring money into their universities. Kentucky's John Calipari, for instance, is considered to be one of the greatest recruiters in the men's college game. His skills are reflected in Kentucky's bottom line; the school's basketball program pulled in an average of $49.4 million per year between the 2014–15 and 2016–17 seasons and made an average profit of $22.9 million per year, reports Forbes.

That being said, coaches at public colleges and universities are still employed by, well, the public. Yet many of them are paid oodles more than the vast majority of other public employees. In 2017, men's college basketball coaches in Nevada, Kansas, Indiana, Kentucky, West Virginia, Maryland, Connecticut, and Rhode Island were the highest-paid public employees in their respective states, according to ESPN.

Back to the NCAA tournament. Of the 68 teams that made it to the Big Dance this year, 47 are public institutions. Here's how much those public schools' head coaches are making, ranked from highest to lowest. Unless otherwise noted, the information comes from USA Today, which has compiled a list of compensation packages for many NCAA men's basketball coaches. USA Today says its figures are based on salary and money from other contractual provisions, as well as "deferred payments earned annually," unaudited expense accounts, and "signing and other one-time bonuses earned in the current contract year."